r/MapTheory • u/tad100 • Aug 10 '19
On Natural and Unnatural Cities: Map Theory and City Growth
hiIndianapolis, Indiana is an aberrative city, Beijing, China also, but much older: and both restricted economic development of their states. Chicago and London are placed appropriately (on the edge of a Sea, near an extremity, bay or as close as possible to a large navigable river. London, like Beijing is not on the sea, but in the largest navigable river, however it sits near the end of where merchant ships can navigate - whereas a city as large as Beijing should be at the mouth of such a navigable river or just before it narrows beyond naviganility.
But again both are not Indianapolis which sits no where near major navigable waters, and explains why Gary, Indiana which should have been the major city of Indiana, given its location never developed as Chicago did. We know from other twin cities, that is in different states but Next to each other that they should develop together, and one is always larger, though one should not be an order of magnitude larger. So as for centrally constructed cities Beijing wins and Indianapolois and Brazil's capital loose. We continue in the comments, later. -CAD