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		Mawr 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fif... Tokyo has a population of some 14 million. Dallas is about 1.3 million. Did you pick cities with populations exactly 10x apart on purpose or something? Got any real stats?

rayiner 2 days ago [–]

So what? Why do you need one city with 13 million people when the US has the land area to build 10 cities with 1.3 million people?

amanaplanacanal 1 day ago | [–]

Because that's where people individually want to live. Cities are getting bigger, rural areas and small towns are depopulating.

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