Why Cities Are Where They Are | Wendover Productions
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Why Cities Are Where They Are | Wendover Productions

B1中级2026年11月14日22分钟

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This is a Wendover Productions video made possible by Squarespace. Make your next move with a beautiful website from Squarespace. The Cumberland Valley is home to six towns lying between Hagerstown, Maryland and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania—Greencastle, Chambersburg, Shippensburg, Newville, Carlisle, and Mechanicsburg.

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What's exceptional about these small Pennsylvania towns is that they're each almost exactly ten miles from each other. The distances deviate by no more than a mile from this rule. This isn't a coincidence and this isn't planned.

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Drawing equal sized radii around each town shows you their spheres of influence. Assuming each town has the exact same shops and services, rational people will go to whichever town is closest to buy or sell goods. Towns ten miles apart mean that nobody has to travel more than five miles to reach a

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