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Cities definitely don’t create a desert.

Not exactly a desert. More like zones of coalescence, like areas cleared out inside a nebula that's a stellar nursery. You're not going to find every single kind of service in those suburbs. You're not going to find certain kinds of businesses. Anything that benefits by being well connected to a hub is going to be drawn into that hub, which means that other areas of the city may have less of it.

By "impoverishment," I don't mean "becoming poor" in an absolute wealth sense. I mean that certain things are sucked out of certain areas to other areas.



I haven't read a bit of your analogy that actually seems like anything close to reality.


> which means that other areas of the city may have less of it.

And make a ton of money while doing it! Farms closer to cities are richer than farms further away from cities.




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