What Is a City?

Cities are the place where economies of scales exist and therefore we pull together skills and money and agricultural surplus in order to make this happen. In other places we say that a city should have or I think you said that cities is where we have a critical mass of people in order to have city-like functions but then what are these functions as well? That's the most intriguing question which we always boil down urban science or whatever to okay what is a city after all and. Yeah I mean of course in some senses this is a question which is also quite a changeable volatile question because there's no doubt the cities through the ages have changed in terms of I mean they're much bigger now

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