It gets a little alarmist at the end (not unjustified...) but the rest of it is all straightforward and mightily sobering.
... Even though his rational arguments on the logistics of cities put a hole in the idea that Ankh-Morpork has a million people, which hurts my feelings. (Honestly, though, I can't picture it with a million people, so it doesn't make that much of a difference.)
I've only known North American cities and they're all so spread out ... the ones with a million or more people in them are hard to hold in the head all at once. I mean, A.-M. is really, really densely populated, you know, people sleeping in shifts and all that, but still...
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Date: 2005-06-01 02:00 am (UTC)... Even though his rational arguments on the logistics of cities put a hole in the idea that Ankh-Morpork has a million people, which hurts my feelings. (Honestly, though, I can't picture it with a million people, so it doesn't make that much of a difference.)
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