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Sorry for derail, but my readings spurred by a "Detroit ISOT to circa 1960" thread led me to believe that the downhill slide began in the 1950s, when Republicans wrecked various neighbourhoods for highspeed road construction.

No. Sankt Peterburg is the outlet for trade from Volga basin through canals linking Lake Onega or River Volkhov basins with it. Narva is outlet solely for Lake Peipus basin. Riga could had been much larger had somebody made the Dvina navigable and linked it with the upper Dnepr.

This very same hydrology applies to many North Sea ports. However, I imagine the glass ceiling to be rather low - like Javer or Emden or Norwich. Reason? Not being at the mouth of a large river basin. Hamburg - a stone's throw away - shares the same water regime, same as London or the ARA ports...

Top of mind: - Antverp - had the Rebellion held on to it. Amsterdam remains a backwater, Antverp becomes the biggest by far city in the area; - Frankfurt - in several small PODs it becomes the capital of (North) Germany; - there is a sleepy fishing village to the north of Vancouver - the...