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12-07-2009, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Tenchu View Post
But, for example, are we supposed to tell the Italians to abandon Rome and move to Chicago? All that culture and history. Any nation. I don't think so.

A more reasonable solution is containing the amount of people we have within those cities.

You must remember, his idea is to stack buildings ontop of each other, like in New York, making the best of space. However, it will be the distant future when we can do the same with farming land. We will still roughly require a similar amount of land for farming, even if the general populace lives more efficiently spaced.
haha, he's not saying we SHOULD move to America... He's illustrating how it's possible to have the whole worlds population in one country whilst having 5 continents free! And he has a very good point actually!
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