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I'm sorry, I should have provided more context. Here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_city that includes th
by dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
I'm sorry, I should have provided more context. Here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_city that includes the kinds of cities I'm thinking of. Many of these cities declined and depopulated due to climate change, economic factors, etc. Ie the same kinds of factors that are affecting SF and Detroit right now. Cities don't just die because their nation falls.
- freehunter 8y agoHow many of those were from post-industrial societies in a stable developed nation with a population of nearly a million people supporting a metro area of nearly 10 million people? Because what I'm seeing on that list is ghost towns, nomadic civilizations, or a complete civilization collapse. What I don't see is a city the size of San Fransisco in a civilization as powerful as the United States of America completely collapsing and disappearing from the face of the planet like Ur or Babylon.