Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have...
by heurist on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:26PM
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Had Rome in the list but removed it because I felt I was missing one or two in between it and Vienna. Rome and Florence dominated for a long time. Culture also used to be more distributed and heterogeneous prior to industrialization.
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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have...
by dredmorbius on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:30PM
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Depending on how far back you want to go: Rome, Byzantium and other near-east locations, Cordova and Teledo, Florence and the Italian City-States, Vienna, Paris, London, Amsterdam, ...
The list actually seems fairly small.
Hrm: listing of largest European cities through history 9sortable tables):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_European_citie...
And worldwide:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_through...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_urban_community_siz...