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> Also, isn't that getting close to the definition of a small town...which is itself kind of a small city? Kind of? A large master-planned community might have
by _ea1k 3y ago
> Also, isn't that getting close to the definition of a small town...which is itself kind of a small city?
Kind of? A large master-planned community might have thousands of homes and its own commercial district. They've always reminded me a bit of historic small towns.
- panick21_ 3y agoHaving 1000 single family homes and a small commercial area is not at all how historic small towns actually operated.
- _ea1k 3y agoCare to enlighten us? :rofl
- panick21_ 3y agoPretty much ever town started the same way. A main street, quite often leading to a train station. http://www.crowwinghistory.org/brainerd_street_views.html http://www.crowwinghistory.org/brainerd_street_views.html Along that main street you had mix buildings where people lived and did their business out of. There was no separation between living and commercial. Farmers lived further out, not directly connected to the city. From there cities cities grow incrementally up and incrementally out. At some point they stop. Brainerd now has the same amount of people as they did 70 years ago. Other cities, like New York sustained that phase much longer.