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* This is a general rule for [[The Windy City|Chicago]] as well - north of the Loop is generally rich, south of the Loop is generally poor. There's a racial aspect as well: if you ride a Red Line train from one end to the other (it runs north-south roughly near Lake Michigan), you will see the racial composition of the train's passengers go from mostly white to mostly black or vice versa. |
* This is a general rule for [[The Windy City|Chicago]] as well - north of the Loop is generally rich, south of the Loop is generally poor. There's a racial aspect as well: if you ride a Red Line train from one end to the other (it runs north-south roughly near Lake Michigan), you will see the racial composition of the train's passengers go from mostly white to mostly black or vice versa. |
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* This is also how most medieval European towns (especially those founded according do German law) were organized. City center housed Town Hall, townhouses of rich burghers and town square that was equivalent with [[City of Adventure]] "Merchant District". Artisans lived nearby and poorer inhabitants lived on the periphery, usually close to the city walls. Also clergy lived in separate part of the city, usually close to church or cathedral. Additionally, in cities with several lines of walls the richer the people the closer to the innermost city they lived as peripheral "rings" were more likely to be overrun and demolished in the case of war. |
* This is also how most medieval European towns (especially those founded according do German law) were organized. City center housed Town Hall, townhouses of rich burghers and town square that was equivalent with [[City of Adventure]] "Merchant District". Artisans lived nearby and poorer inhabitants lived on the periphery, usually close to the city walls. Also clergy lived in separate part of the city, usually close to church or cathedral. Additionally, in cities with several lines of walls the richer the people the closer to the innermost city they lived as peripheral "rings" were more likely to be overrun and demolished in the case of war. |
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**There was commonly a foreign community there as well set up to service visiting merchants. This was known in antiquity and was common practice well into modern times. Sometimes this was for all practical purposes extraterritorial. This could at times, especially when one ethnic group dominated local trade, amount to a colony. The [[Hanseatic League|Hansa]] had a section like that in London. In the early 1800s, Canton had a section dedicated to Western merchants, while the homegrown variety bid for a place in the ''Cohong'' or the local merchants guild who were the only Chinese allowed to trade with them. Later as Westerners [[Gunboat Diplomacy|gained more influence]] several port cities allowed them a great deal more privileges. |
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* Phoenix, Arizona and its surrounding metropolitan area has the richer denizens living in the north and eastern parts of town, while the less-well-off tend to live in the south and western parts of the valley. There are of course some exceptions, but everyone generally can agree that south phoenix is the poorest area. |
* Phoenix, Arizona and its surrounding metropolitan area has the richer denizens living in the north and eastern parts of town, while the less-well-off tend to live in the south and western parts of the valley. There are of course some exceptions, but everyone generally can agree that south phoenix is the poorest area. |
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* Many if not all "Gated Comunities" count. |
* Many if not all "Gated Comunities" count. |
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