@KateMoss1
> When small towns simply export raw materials (agricultural harvests, forest products, mined materials), but are not able to develop innovations that lead to other exports, they inevitably remain small and dependent on exporting those initial raw materials.

guess cities will feed themselves with vertical gardening literally any time now.

cities are only "better" in a world where cancerous growth is the measure of success instead of the renewing cycle of good farming which yields the same amount infinitely.