Originally posted by realpolitic
When I left the city Pheonix in '87 it was 650 square miles 2/3 the size of the state of Rhode Island, they kept on annexing dessert. Cities most often expand by adding subburbs. The metropolis from Boston to Washington DC is one example, another is Los Angeles.
If a city's population doesn't expand upward it has to expand outward, or get more cramped.
When I left the city Pheonix in '87 it was 650 square miles 2/3 the size of the state of Rhode Island, they kept on annexing dessert. Cities most often expand by adding subburbs. The metropolis from Boston to Washington DC is one example, another is Los Angeles.
If a city's population doesn't expand upward it has to expand outward, or get more cramped.
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