PORTABLE REAL ESTATE No more mass population movements to find a new homeland. Just pick up your homeland and move it somewhere else. Too crowded? Build add-ons to your homeland. There's always more space rocks.
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access to water ways prior to the advent of stage coach and rail
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Even after, waterways have been invaluable.
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every major city is built on a harbor or navigable river
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are you even fucking trying right now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing
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wow three rivers which only fell within "Beijing municipality" when the CCP redefined that area to encompass some 6,400 square miles of land, largely rural and well outside the historic confines of the city
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you're really gonna focus hard on one city out of 20 or 50 just to be technically right?
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would you like me to whip up a more comprehensive list? it was just the first that popped into mind
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On the planet Earth a city is formed because it's centrally located But in space, you can move ur city once it's established, and you can move it from central location to central location as needs dictate. This is not complicated Alex I need you 2 employ some imagination with me
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Centrally located to what? I notice that Paris is not at the center of France, nor NYC at the center of the USA, etc etc... think about this harder man--why do we have cities? why do some cities just keep growing while others fall off after a while, and others never start?
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Centrally located within whichever context you can figure out as contributing to the growth and development of a city through population flow and commerce dude I know you're not this retarded you need to employ some epistemological charity
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"centrally located" then is a placeholder term you're using to sub in for a certain factor that you can't define more precisely--please, give this issue more thought!
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You know exactly what I am speaking about and are dodging the subject because you want to identify as opposing spacefags' flights of fancy, which is disappointing tbh
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I know you haven't thought out what you're talking about, and that this makes it easier to indulge in flights of fancy. People are very used to discussing cities with cliches, instead of actually thinking about them!
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space autists are nibbas of low ambitions. if I'm to be fanciful (and fancy is all this is), let us have tardigrade-laced DNA that mitigates environmental hazard, THEN it gets interesting.
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There's a reason people live in cookie-cutter sprawls when they could be in vibrant walkable mass-transit neighborhoods. Some people need elbow room.
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There is also a reason why cities tend to create suburbs, but suburbs don't tend to create cities
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Yes! Suburbs are a pathology created when our cities don't provide what they ought to provide. We need more cities. All over the Solar System.
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Pollution and crime are pathologies. It shouldn't be necessary to fortify yourself from your own cities!
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As our laws and culture encourage inner cities to become this way, we don't have cities that can escape this. We need more competition, to drive innovation.
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