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		bobthepanda on Nov 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ur I wonder what accurate population figures per decade would look like. At points during our recorded history Rome’s population fell into the low tens of thousands.

pfdietz on Nov 12, 2022 [–]

At the Corning Museum of Glass, there's a display where the time series of populations of global cities have been rendered into glass, hanging vertically with time going upward.

https://whatson.cmog.org/exhibitions-galleries/global-cities

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