Ever Higher

ALL OVER THE WORLD cities are getting bigger, as the world rapidly industrializes. this has been ongoing for about three hundred years, since the industrial revolution. by 1925 one half of all americans lived in town, the number is much higher now.

ITS THE SAME everywhere, especially in traditionally rural countries like india and china.as food production becomes increasingly efficient, fewer people are needed, or can make a profit in it.

even as they grow, megalopoli are obsolete, in a sense, because of modern communication and transportation. all the cultural and economic benefits of new york are available in starkville, mississippi, and blacksburg, west virginia.

But the cities, where the jobs are, attract. if you can't make it anywhere else, you can make it in a big city. one of every six people on this planet is an urban squatter, settling down on public land, living in squalor on the outskirts of cities like nairobi and cairo, (and every other city on the planet as well).

they are tolerated because they are reasonably productive, harmless, and content. they contribute to society. wipe them all out, their replacements would appear tomorrow. it appears that in the natural order of things, humans want an underclass.

why we don't just move everybody into nice clean apartment buildings remains a mystery.

manhattan is a perfect role model, as is tokyo. hyge cities full of high rise apartments. fewer suburbs, less urban sprawl, less horizontal human expansion, and more vertical human expansion. shy scrapers reaching into the heavens, ever higher, with an orbiting support and habitat system.

meanwhile, down below, millions of square miles of wilderness,  only rarely visited by humans. and of course, adequate agricultural land.  agriculture will move into space too, with the rest of us. maybe we could even find room for the squatters, inside, with the rest of us...

Bb

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