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Originally Posted by pj3000
Looking alike and patterns of development are entirely different things.
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What "patterns of development"? Again, neither city has much remaining from the colonial era, so it doesn't really matter what was going on then. Both have current "patterns of development" from the same era.
Cologne was the most important Roman city north of the Alps, but it's almost entirely a post WW2 city today. What does it matter if there used to be other stuff 2000 years ago?