skygiants

There is a mention that the Americas used to have other cities, which got killed by colonialism and had to start over. (Killed as animate cities, not the people entirely -- one of the POV characters/avatars is Lenape, in fact.) And there's São Paulo, plus a mention of Mexico City as close to avatarization.

So... it's a YMMV thing whether that's enough (and it's definitely not giving us any more nuanced engagement than that with the extremely varied and complex history of indigenous population centers in the Americas), but it's crossing that low bar of "does this US-authored book acknowledge anything indigenous and/or that non-US places in the Americas exist," anyway. It's not really clear what the tipping point of size/age/mythos/etc is for a city to hit avatarization, but... yeah, I do have some questions about the order here. Not to mention the question of how a city dies and what the consequences are, and what the cause-effect relationship for disasters natural and otherwise is.