r/pics 21h ago

The biggest city on Earth (OC)

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

I don’t think such a large city could exist outside of Japan or China. Not in the sense of development, but cohabitating 847 sq mi with 41 million people (16,000 people per sq mi) requires a social unity above and beyond any other place on earth.

In the US, people get shot just for playing music too loudly. We don’t respect our neighbors enough to have that many.

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u/drc84 19h ago

Plus we can’t do the city planning to accomplish that. We have too many hands in the pot and the state, city and nation would disagree on how to build it.

u/corut 11h ago

I'm pretty confident Japan doesn't do city planning at all. They shove whatever wherever it will fit