How big can cities get?

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Produced by Dave Amos in sunny San Luis Obispo, California.
Edited by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio.

Black Lives Matter.

[CityBeautiful]

Sorry to those who were looking for this video on Nebula but couldn't find it. It's there now! It was actually on Nebula, but not linked on my channel page.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

We don't need to be bigger, Pyongyang is the perfect size. The perfect city to live in

[samdekker]

Me, a small town New Zealand kid when moving to an Australian city of 2 million: "I'm finally living in a big city!"

YouTube: cities of 200, 000, 000... 🤯

[mylim]

looking at the example of china, you can also consider the Netherlands, Belgium, North Rhine and Nord--Pas de Calais as a single urban area

[binyu]

I live in Tianjin, and the city actually functions more like six cities, each of the six boroughs have their own public amenities, personalities, and you’ll almost never have to travel into another borough to get something done, I live just inside the city’s expressway ring, and going into the square mile of old downtown feels like going to another city every time.

[DaniMrtini]

Well I believe according to Civilization 6, you can expand 3-5 tiles from your city and reach maybe a total population of somewhere between 60 and 100 (which would require you to focus on nothing but food production.) But what do I know, I barely have 3k hours of gameplay

[reinerjung]

The traffic issue is a problem when you build cities following the modernistic model separating living, working, culture etc. We made our cities like this after WW2 with the success of the automobile. However, today city planners want to make city quarters more localized so that you can reach most daily location that you visit reachable in 10-20 minutes by foot or bike or public transport. This would remove to commute issue as a limit.

[LucasDimoveo]

The speed of public transportation really would make or break mega or gigacities. Living in Queens felt like a different planet from the Bronx or Manhattan, for example.

[TheLiamster]

It’s crazy to think that there might be cites in the future with a larger population than my entire country, I live in the UK btw.

[DiegoSaulReyna]

anyone saying "gigacity" charge them copy right bro.

[fernbedek]

If I remember correctly, some of China’s planned super cities had a lower population density than Java. Considering Java’s ongoing rapid growth, and the fact it already has such high densities, I suspect it might stumble into being one of the largest urban areas on earth soon.

[oklahomadepartmentofaerosp]

Someday Oklahoma City and Tulsa will sprawl out so far that they meet, causing the universe to instantly implode.

[apadgettski]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the midsize city is the future. They're efficient, they have the necessary work opportunities and amenities, and they're cheaper to live in or around. I live in Minneapolis and I think cities like it will become more desirable in the future. The transportation is robust, there's a vibrant arts and cultural scene, and the airport has lots of international destinations. I just don't see the benefit of moving a city any larger when the cost is usually so much higher

[motherhubbard]

Idk I haven't got the 81 tile mod yet.

[dannydude]

imagine being on tinder in one of these cities

[TomKellyXY]

I live in Greater Tokyo and its great. Most of what is discussed here is already a reality but infrastructure is essential to make it work. I’m from small town New Zealand is so did not expect to feel so at home here. Tokyo is great, it’s clean and efficient. There are parks and malls everywhere. I can use dozens of train networks with the same card and even use it in other cities nationwide. It costs only a few dollars to get from Yokohama to the airport in Chiba or our other campus in Saitama. Essentially if there’s a conference anywhere in Kanto I don’t need to pay for a hotel because I get there in a little over an hour. It’s around the same distance to the beach our hot springs in the mountains. Mass transit means that anyone can get around cheaply and efficiently. The city feels smaller than Auckland or LA because the transport infrastructure is so much more developed.

[Martin-cwup]

This channel is part of the reason I'm now studying to become a urban planner

[shmeckle]

Oh, the return of the city-state. Hm, what's old is new.

[rdormer]

Once one side of a city is so far away from the other that the people who live there have little interaction with those on the other end, I'd argue that the city is basically two cities. Administratively it may be taxed and financed as one unit, but that's largely an accounting convenience. In any ways that really matter, they're separate entities. If I have to take a prolonged train ride, drive for two and a half hours, or take a plane to get to the other end of "my city, " then there's going to be enough local differences that my destination isn't really the same city that I left from.

[Xergecuz]

My city absorbed some small towns while growing, and those towns still function as independent cities, even thou they still are inside the metropolitan area, and the citizens travel from one side to the other, for school and work.