I understand in a post AC world that cooling is not the issue. However, I dont understand why we make cities in deserts when water consumption is so great. How do cities like Las Vegas supply so much water.
Even if they have access to water, why would you want to build a city where temperatures are so brutal. The same goes for northern cities in Canada to be fair.
(I am Canadian so sorry if it is an obvious answer)
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If there are natural resources available to exploit, then settlements will pop up. Northern Canadian cities grew on the back of mining, forestry, oil, fishing, etc. and those that were able to diversify flourished.
I think in the case of LV they just needed a settlement somewhere on the railroad routes for supplies, and then the Hoover Dam provided easy energy and required a lot of workers to build it, then things snowballed from there.
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