Dominant Cities
The dominant cities of a country also benefit from even more intense concentrations of the very same things cities offer. New York City has been growing in population the past few decades while Detroit and Philadelphia, old industrial cities of a similar age as New York, have shrunk dramatically. Similarly, Greater Tokyo, through its 20 year recession, has managed to outpace the growth of all other cities in Japan of a million people or more by its sheer concentration of economic, infrastructure, and people power.
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