for London, perhaps, but I'm talking about American cities
Economic growth has a logic of its own and doesn't get moved around. The Soviets tried this too, concerned abt concentration in Moscow...
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...to no avail. Stagnant outlying cities stayed stagnant.
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Obviously *something* makes cities grow--but it's not by having people and companies shipped to them from some city that actually works
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It's not bad because of soviets, it's bad because it *didn't work*
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Germany was on the same track with Berlin above all others until the Cold War split the country and gave the west a chance to catch up
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The same winnowing process I mentioned would've eventually hit West Germany too, but at first--as in the USA--the situation was one of...
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...multiple cities with similar populations and resources all growing at once
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You mean disincentivised more than it currently is by high prices and scarce land? Worst case scenario, London's growth stalls...
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