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A good city should be able to withstand people moving there. Otherwise it was probably only good for reasons that aren't actually inherently city qualities, suc
by bigDinosaur 4y ago
A good city should be able to withstand people moving there. Otherwise it was probably only good for reasons that aren't actually inherently city qualities, such as culture or access to nature or cheap land.
- tjr225 4y agoWell by that measure “good” cities are very rare, and thousands of years of societies of dredged on building cities without a single thought towards what a “good” city should be. Maybe you should start a lecture or something?
- refurb 4y agoA good city can't withstand people moving there and maintaining the same standard of living at the same cost as earlier inhabitants. And I'm not sure we'd want it to anyways? When prices get too high for later folks to move, then that's a great signal to actually go elsewhere. I'm not sure why we'd want a system where everyone just migrated to one or two cities in the entire US. I've seen those cities in Asia that have populations of 15M or 20M and yeah, seems super inefficient once you get to a certain size.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoFair point. My ideal model for cities is what Germany does, lots of cities with a population of ~600k, medium density, lots of choice and good connections between cities.