cities are history...20th century anachronisms.
Their costs rise exponentially as the height goes up.
snce the mid-20th century there is less and less need to concentrate human, material and financial capital on rail lines, roads and waterways-all historical reasons by which cities evolved.
NYC in the 1960’s lost the garment district, the meatpacking district...etc..all that was left was the financial district-and in the last 20 years that finally has moved into the cloud. Floor trading has essentially come to an end. The financial district was all that was left keeping NYC alive and in the game.
No reason at all whatsoever for anybody to need to live there
Great Post! Never thought of it that way but I never paid cities (except Rome) much mind!
I’ll put you down as a ‘no’ for Agenda 2030.
“The financial district was all that was left keeping NYC alive and in the game.”
One of our neighbors had a serious operation and her grand daughter and 6 month old baby came out to help her recover.
The grand daughter, who was basically raised by her grand mother got caught out here with the CV issues and has stayed on. Her company a financial one arranged to have an office installed in a spare bedroom out here. So she has been working
Up to the riots/marches, she was adamant about going back to NYC to live.
My wife, a mother, grand mother and an RN whose doctor treated this young woman, asked her why she would expose a young baby to the terror and hate when she could stay here?
Her answer was I love NY City. My wife and I told her, her NY City no longer existed after the riots/protests.
She was angry with us at first, and now she is seeing what we tried to warn her about.