Population Density and Social Pathology (1962)

There is a reason many flee the city when they can afford it and it doesn't mean commuting for a long time.

100 years ago you almost needed to live in a city if you wanted access to anything cultural. That is simply not true anymore and cities offer fewer advantages. It is still proposed to be desirable. Probably because the older generations learned it that way.

Some say we have to for ecological reasons, but I doubt it.

Rats are not capable to force social and financial hierarchy, where the rich have all the space they need in their penthouses. So any comparison to human society fails.

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