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The History of Imperial Cities
Every one of the really big cities in the world was an imperial city before 19 hundred. Power attracts human beings like a picnic lunch attracts ants, and so the cities grow up. Long boulevards make it easy to have sight lines of impressive buildings. Letzean astana is a classic modern imperial city where its huge structures utterly unrelated to any economic necessity, but serving to impress. The greatest of modern imperial cities, in a sense, is bejing which as a very interesting architecture, big buildings, typically surrounded by green space, just radiates power.