I wonder though if it is more fragile than the alternative. Are social and economic systems more robust when they're distributed across smaller urban and rural areas?
Are megalopolis settings susceptible to long tail risks that smaller urbs don't face?
Susceptible? The whole system is a house of cards.
You don’t need anything exotic like a terrorist attack or a war, you can simply have a power outage and the whole system would collapse if it wasn’t rectified in a couple hours. I like cities but I’m not willingly putting myself into a mouse trap.
I wonder though if it is more fragile than the alternative. Are social and economic systems more robust when they're distributed across smaller urban and rural areas?
Are megalopolis settings susceptible to long tail risks that smaller urbs don't face?