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That's true, but that effect follows a Pareto curve. Medium sized cities (1M to 3M inhabitants) reap most, if not all, benefits of density, without incurring th
by sergiosgc 7y ago
That's true, but that effect follows a Pareto curve. Medium sized cities (1M to 3M inhabitants) reap most, if not all, benefits of density, without incurring the worst of the downsides.
In other words, I'm not advocating large sprawling cities, nor am I advocating a return to rural population distribution, but rather saner sized cities.
- Fnoord 7y ago> Medium sized cities (1M to 3M inhabitants) That's medium?! What do those cities have which a city of 100k inhabitants does not have?
- cr1895 7y agoCulture, diversity, variety? Not to say that a city of 100k lacks any of these things, but a place far larger can have much more.
- adrianN 7y agoJobs for software engineers for example.
- sergiosgc 7y agoNowadays, that's medium. Large is 10M. I've lived in a 100k city for a few years. It was a fun time, I liked it a lot, and you have access to most amenities, but you do notice it is a small city. Fewer different restaurants, very limited selection of bars and night clubs [1], much limited selection of cultural events. [1] This has an unexpected upside: you can go out on a whim and expect to find your friends at the usual places, in a Cheers like fashion.
- Fnoord 7y agoI guess, size-wise, those are USA definitions. Not in Germany [1] (which is the topic here), nor in The Netherlands (where I'm from). Amsterdam doesn't have 1M, yet it is very culturally diverse. Zaanstad (containing Zaandam) is 'only' ~150k, and has the most cultures of The Netherlands (a total of 135 different nationalities). [1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-biggest-cities-in-germany.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-biggest-cities-in-ge... EDIT: Ah, now it makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up! :)
- sergiosgc 7y agoSorry, there's a bit of misunderstanding here, my fault. I'm referring to metropolitan area population, not the specific city population. My city, Porto, for example, has less than 300k inhabitants. The metro area is, however, about 1.5M. In the context of auto traffic, or city services, the relevant number is the metro population, not the city proper.
- gambiting 7y agoThat's....silly. By that definition most EU countries don't even have a "large" city. Warsaw and Krakow are both huge cities and they have 2M and 1M people respectively.
- CaptainZapp 7y agoTokyo does work quite well for a city of 37.5 million (metro area).
- ehnto 7y agoThat's 12 million more people than live in all of the continent Australia. It always boggles my mind.