real estate is only contextually valuable, which is why people keep trying to cram into NYC but aren't in any hurry to snap up cheap land in the Dakotas
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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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Do you want me to whip up a comprehensive list of major cities built either on navigable water ways or bodies of water with suitable harbors too?
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be my guest, but I never argued that those don't exist--only that navigable waterways and harbors are not prerequisites for cities
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I said "major" cities for a reason.
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Not prerequisites for major cities, then
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I'll add the caveat that the city must have been established as an influential population center PRIOR to the advent of Rail, Automobile, or Air transport.
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No kidding; seaports became considerably more valuable after railways came along--before that, major cities favored rivers for water access (ocean access wasn't rare, of course, just less common)
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and the millennia-old canal, don't forget the canal that is older than Saxon England
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Beijing was 1000 years old before the first bits of that canal got built--they didn't exactly build it on spec, after all
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eh, I'm not too invested in that. I'll grant you dry Beijing
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