But was not that a singular scene for a city of a million inhabitants?
Beneath it a city of 12 million inhabitants was crumbling in ashes.
Total cost for a city of 100,000 inhabitants is estimated at $4 billion.
Nowadays Olivet is a growing city of more than 20.000 inhabitants.
But this city of 1.7 million inhabitants long ago weathered such changes.
They came into Ahmadabad, a sprawling city of more than a million inhabitants.
In 1928 Hagen developed into a city of more than 100,000 inhabitants.
By 1896 Johannesburg had become a city of over 100,000 inhabitants.
By 1400 Norwich had grown to become a major city of perhaps 10,000 inhabitants.
By 1850 half the population lived in cities of over 10,000 inhabitants, far ahead of any other European country.