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Re:Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns? by waveBidder on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @10:18AM (#40298398)
… it was also only sparsely populated
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Re:Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns? by gizmo on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @10:50AM (#40298734)
Have you ever looked at a rail map?

California and Indiana both had a population of about 2.7 million in 1916. Indiana had a dense rail network and California didn't. Indiana is only ~5x smaller than California.

This is what the rail network looked like in 1916:

https://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/4400/4401/4401.htm

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Re:Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns? by fingerlocks on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @04:08PM (#40302306)
The less dense areas are impassable mountains or inhospitable desert
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