As a city grows it accretes those looking for opportunity. Businessfolk look for opportunity in a large market where they have more buyers. Laborers look for work opportunities. People from the hinterlands who may contribute at the margins are the main contributor to population increase (vs newborns or arriving wealthy). This dynamic will put pressures on resources (in far flung Beijing satellite cities you have “ant houses” to house these folk who given their meager earnings cannot afford better dwellings in more convenient locales.
Even centralized government systems cannot provide an idealistic solution to the pressures growing populations put on cities; however, given that people never the less pursue those opportunities even at a local disadvantage will take it because it’s better than their home opportunities.
Even centralized government systems cannot provide an idealistic solution to the pressures growing populations put on cities; however, given that people never the less pursue those opportunities even at a local disadvantage will take it because it’s better than their home opportunities.