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"Bret Devereaux writes about the origin of cities. He critiques a fantasy fiction-oriented YouTube vlogger who isn’t a trained historian, and in his critique, he expounds on the origin of cities, as coming purely from extraction, either by temples or by kings. I do not wish to contest Bret in Ancient history, where most of the examples in his post are drawn. But once one gets to the second millennium and cities are more visible to us in economic history, this is no longer the only origin of cities. Some emerge for commercial purposes, and only become sites of royal extraction after they’ve proven their economic value."

"My training, to be clear, is not in history. But my work in transportation has compelled me to understand not just transport engineering but also urbanism and urban histories, and in practice this has meant the histories of the largest cities of the developed world today, skewed toward older ones (more London and Paris, less Seoul), which have had a longer period during which their specific histories were subjects of interest."

"In economic history, DeLong-Shleifer argue in their article Princes and Merchants that in the second millennium, city growth in Europe correlated with non-absolutist government. This can include a constitutional government, such as the Old Swiss Confederacy, the Dutch Republic, and Britain after the Glorious Revolution, or unconsolidated states in which the king’s authority is checked by powerful magnates, such as France before the Bourbons. They argue that medieval and postmedieval Europe had an atypically rural elite, unlike the urban elite of the Ancient Mediterranean, and thus city size could be a proxy for commerce rather than imperial power. In fact, after finding the correlation, they tried running it again with royal capitals excluded, figuring that it would exclude large cities in economically inert areas like Naples and Madrid, but actually the correlation weakened, because it also excluded London and Paris."

"Bret gives two examples of cities with good locations for trade that nonetheless didn’t amount to much until they became imperial capitals: Byzantium, and Vienna. Byzantium’s transformation into Constantinople occurred centuries before the period of interest for this post; Vienna’s history is more complex, and is better viewed as a mix of imperial extraction and commercial importance; it only became the permanent Habsburg capital in 1611, at which point it was already a significant if sub-Paris-size city."

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