I strongly suspect that Japan's post-boom stagnation has to do with Tokyo lacking any peers--nearest is Seoul, which is only 2/3 the size
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Technology is--since the dawn of agriculture or earlier--about raising the limits of urban population; abt making larger cities possible
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The largest cities at any given time face the most complicated logistical/practical problems, but also have the best means to solve them...
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...and by solving them, they raise the population threshold, at which point the city can grow until it hits new problems; rinse & repeat
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To be clear, the problems I'm referring to here are strictly tech related--not touching on cultural or social problems
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Shanghai and Beijing must be getting close to peers. Especially if you consider nearby populations integrated via HSR.
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Wikipedia says Shanghai has 24M in the city and 34M in the metro region.
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The list I'm looking at (also on Wiki) says Shanghai's at 23m...but either way, I hadn't considered them peers (yet) due to income diff
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China's cities are gaining but are still poorer for the moment, if I'm not mistaken.
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Yes, but Shanghai is the least poor. Average salary was $13,620 in 2015. That's about 1/2 of Japan, but it's not that far behind.
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the Pearl River Delta (Guangzhou/Shenzhen/Dongguan) is approaching this level of development rapidly and it has the population
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