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by david-gpu 773 days ago
> That sounds like a recent development.

Reinforced concrete is almost two hundred years old by now [0]. How many people live in homes built over one hundred years ago? Not only have many of those old homes been replaced, but the population is much larger now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforced_concrete#History

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> How many people live in homes built over one hundred years ago?

Many people in Europe's historical city centres.