RE: Are Cities Dead?

Situations change and so do priorities. But abandoning rural areas has been unsustainable, and so has been the price of city property.

Some of the time.

And correction was due. And always will be. In a natural way, the move out of cities and back to the country has been expected. The triggers are random but the reasons are...well, to me they are like the physical laws of pressure and empty areas to be taken.

In that light, urbanization has been a move that required additional energy in order to be sustained. Now it has become more an individual choice if each of us is to keep spending additional energy.

At what cost? For how long? Why?

By the way, that reminds me to make a certain comparison of the two mega cities at the corners of Europe that I visited in 2019. Istanbul and Barcelona. A lot to ponder on, even based on 2019 observations. In short, one of those cities I now think of as balanced, while the other was kind of...looking for the one word to describe it...bursting.