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Old Posted Apr 29, 2017, 12:23 PM
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Cities like Merv or Mohenjo-daro have declined 100% percent from their peaks, when they were among the largest cities in the world. This is not rare.

As far as I know, no city in history has seen a bigger decline faster than Detroit, which in about six decades lost more than half of its population.
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