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https://victorhanson.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hanson-Logo-1.png595200by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (Autumn 2010) As the world steadily grows more urbanized, with 50 percent of its population no longer rural, it is more important than ever to ask how cities either perish or manage to survive.