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Cool, but feels underwhelming in comparison to the growth of other cities over the past few decades. Shanghai, Dubai, etc..
by kypro 3y ago
Cool, but feels underwhelming in comparison to the growth of other cities over the past few decades. Shanghai, Dubai, etc..
- b800h 3y agoFair, but we don't have desert to build on or a single-party state, so there is that.
- jacooper 3y agoNothing beats Riyadh in growth over 10 years. The entire city changed.
- hk__2 3y agoRiyadh and Dubai are bad examples as they are in the middle of a desert.
- jacooper 3y agoWhat? Why? Riyadh changed like crazy in just 10 years.
- hk__2 3y agoYes, because as a populated city it’s very young: it virtually didn’t exist in the 19th century while London was the most populated city of the whole world at the time. Even in the 1930s London had 300x the population of Riyadh. You have to wait until the 1980s to see Riyadh have more than 1M inhabitants.
- ido 3y agoI would wager a guess that no other city in Western Europe grew more than London though.
- Barrin92 3y agoSure, but that's also not comparable. Dubai's population was 20.000 (!) in 1950. 500k in 1990, 3+ million today. That's a ~150x growth over the lifetime of a single person. London has grown by I think 20-ish percent over the last thirty years and was alreay affluent and large decades ago. Which is still pretty swift compared to Berlin or Paris. The kind of catch up growth where cities are built out of nothing an old city cannot compete with.
- localplume 3y ago[dead]