Quote Originally Posted by Aves
Really wish you could just stop city growth if you wanted... would be greatly appreciated
I don't know if this works in M2TW, but one trick for managing unrest in big settlements in RTW was to set army size to huge, and recruit vast numbers of peasants to send to the front lines... either as cannon fodder, or as loyal subjects (with the right religion) to populate cities that you exterminate. It was one way to recycle surplus population.