Old Nick has posted an interesting article about cities at Hyperstition. Old Nick laments the paucity of good theorising about cities and points out what looks like a great paper by the historian William H McNeill: “Cities and Their Consequences”, at The American Interest Online (subscription only).

There’s enough detail in Nick’s post to whet the appetite, though. From the development of specialisation in China to arms races amongst modern urban sects, there are some fine ideas about the general patterns to be found wherever there is large scale urbanisation.

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