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		maxwell on Sept 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Subject: Airbnb (2011) Manhattan, London, and Paris all peaked in the early- to mid-20th century. Manhattan: https://urbanomnibus.net/2014/10/the-rise-and-fall-of-manhat... Paris: https://www.parisinsidersguide.com/population-of-paris.html London: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/01/07... City of London: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Populati... Tokyo is probably approaching peak: https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjapanpropert... Tokyo Core: http://www.newgeography.com/files/cox-tokyo-1.png

timr on Sept 18, 2018 [–]

Pedantry. If you honestly believe that Manhattan "peaked like a star quarterback" in 1910, I don't know what to say to you.

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