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Since WW2, the story of humanity has increasingly been the story of the top 100 or so charismatic big cities. The ones that can each lay claim to an important subplot of the human story. Not necessarily the biggest ones but the ones that you instantly associate with a big story.
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And it didn’t hit high gear till post civil war consumer industrial boom and mass migration to cities. Electricity , automobile etc. The Bildungsroman script of going to the Big City to find your fortune dates to that period.
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