[ExI] Cities
Keith Henson
hkeithhenson at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 21:43:57 UTC 2020
<spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> Your statistics compare all of Chicago to all
of Oakland. The crime is concentrated down in the south side of Chicago,
the baddest part of town.
My point, if I had one, was that you don't have to go a couple of
thousand miles to find dangerous places.
> I don't get the whole big city thing. I don't understand why people choose
it.
Mostly they don't have a choice. It's where the housing is and the jobs were.
Urban Dynamics is hard to find but worth reading.
> Looks to me like you take enormous risk of failure of the intricate
mechanisms of life support. The supply chain can get broken at any one of a
number of points, and the whole system can collapse.
That's always been the case. We live in a golden age where most of
the time most people get enough to eat. That has not been the case in
the past. Did you see the article I posted a link to where the US
population in pre-civil war times was stunted because of a lack of
food?
> Well, there is no need to speculate: we see it. Riots, grocery stores
looted and destroyed. Now what?
They will be rebuilt. Humans are flexible, and where there is a need,
they will fix things as required.
Keith
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