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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017
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      So: why bother with cities in the first place? Cities are where we develop technology--outside them, regression to nature is the rule.

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    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017
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      You can analogize them to stars: stars are where elements heavier than hydrogen are made. Outside stars, you slide back to absolute zero.

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    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017
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      Humans cut off entirely from cities gradually lose the use of technologies they once had. If undisturbed for long enough, we'll forget fire.

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    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017
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      Now, this is fine if you earnestly believe humans should live among other animals as other animals.

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    5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017
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      But if you want to see where technological development will go, then you want cities to work. Which brings us back to the problem.

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    6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017
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      While city populations grow by migration, city technology develops by imitation. Up-and-coming cities imitate mature cities...

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    7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017
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      ...finding new, locally practical ways to accomplish the same results. This creation of new ways of working creates demand for more workers.

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    8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017
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      Eventually, an up-and-coming city has imitated all that's worth imitating, invented whatever it can invent, and become a mature city.

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    9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017
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      A mature city can only grow again when it finds itself "backward," behind the level of development of newer mature cities...

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    10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017
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      ...and therefore in a position to imitate and invent once again. Some cities pull this off, some never do, and simply stagnate indefinitely.

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 3 Jan 2017

      This is the other problem with the imperial approach: betting that all future development will come out of one ever-growing city.

      7:47 AM - 3 Jan 2017
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      • vague & candid
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        1. steve forrest‏ @sforrest 3 Jan 2017
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          (looking forward to the full essay/blogpost/op-ed!)

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