I get New York and Chicago and LA and Boston and New Orleans and San Francisco. These are cities that make sense. I even get the reasons why Las Vegas exists, perverse as they are.
But what possibly justifies the existence of Pheonix Arizona?
I get New York and Chicago and LA and Boston and New Orleans and San Francisco. These are cities that make sense. I even get the reasons why Las Vegas exists, perverse as they are.
But what possibly justifies the existence of Pheonix Arizona?
A lot of the towns in the USA's West and Southwest that popped up because of resource locations (usually water) either lived or died because of the railways. Where I grew up they loaded an entire town onto logs and rolled the buildings to the new location because they wanted to be closer to the railway so they could have a station and get plugged into the supply network. As the frontier/homestead style of settlement dwindled and people started clustering in towns the rails became far more important for civic growth.
But we can still get mad at whatever idiot conductor that decided Phoenix was a place worth stopping. Could have nipped that one in the bud.
It's just, it's a desert. Like the indigenous people of the southwest had the good sense to carve their towns into the sides of cliffs or build big communal buidlings next to waterways with lots of ways to mitigate heat. But Pheonix is just... like if you built a whole bunch of Ohio suburbs in the middle of the Nejd.
Indigenous people were/are too dumb to figure out that sprawling concrete heat traps with golf courses in the middle of some hot ass desert is optimal design. Are you saying there might be something WRONG with Western Civilization?