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>>11784241
it's mostly an urban phenomenon, but still. why do ghost towns occur? or, conversely, why might you want to escape cities and move back to a cozy country life?

marxism has answers for a lot of this stuff. acceleration is marxism on overdrive b/c computers (and the famous 'culture of late capital,' and lots of other things).

why was there a mass migration from the country to the cities in the late 18C/early 19C? the industrial revolution. today the industrial revolution is happening in microprocessors and over the internet. but this has equally huge effects on demography and geography also, as well as culture, the academy, science...