It drew people, I would add, despite severe *disincentives* like industrial pollution and crowding.
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Replying to @donlocke77 @JonnElledge
They don't "see" it that way, it *is* that way--if a northern city became a place to succeed, it would start picking up quick growth too
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But again, this means figuring out what made London grow in the first place, why the industrial revolution saw London explode with growth...
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...instead of those cities closer to resources, or home to large mill complexes. What made London different? That's the key here.
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Replying to @donlocke77 @JonnElledge
Yeah, works for me. I'm not offering other solutions because I don't know of any that reliably work. But there's one option that might...
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...which would be to divide the country itself, so that successor states could mint their own currency, set their own trade policies, etc...
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...this worked to bring Norway back from the grinding poverty and interminable stagnation it endured while united with Sweden.
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Hey, I'm just looking at what's actually worked. It's vanishingly unlikely, sure, but the best way to avoid your dreaded one-city scenario
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