[Velvet_Highground]

Killer thread. There’s other mega cities in the world but there’s only one New York. Other cities are in great geographic settings & have built up impressive hyper-urban density over wide areas Tokyo for example. NYC was the first and that legacy of inter-war urbanism isn’t something you can find anywhere else on the same scale the modern fabric is just the icing on the cake.

Chicago does deserve an honorable mention it’s got that same excellent mixture in a large scale core. However the vast amount of flat land the urban area was able to expand out into acted as pressure release valve. There just aren’t the multiple ultra densely interconnected cores.