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The Toronto Greater Golden Horseshoe area has 19 cities with 100,000 or more residents. (2014 estimates)
Ajax
Barrie
Brampton
Burlington
Cambridge
Guelph
Hamilton
Kitchener
Markham
Milton
Mississauga
Oakville
Oshawa
Richmond Hill
St. Catharines
Toronto
Vaughan
Waterloo
Whitby
Impressive.
Gets me thinking, would you personally as a native Torontonian say that Toronto is a centralized city and metropolitan area OR a decentralized city and metropolitan area? Or neither, meaning it is a centralized city in a metropolitan area that is decentralized?
New York tends to work in a way that is somewhat similar to that. Manhattan's dual Central Business Districts of Downtown and Midtown are the epicenter of the Greater New York region, however, there is vast amount of business, commercial, and economic activity in other nodes of Greater New York too. In places like Stamford, Jersey City, White Plains, various other places in Northern New Jersey or Western Connecticut or downstate New York as well in addition to those three. Often times these business districts have as much office space or close to the same range of office and commercial space (both high-end premium space and efficient but economical types as well) to compete with cities that anchor regions of 3 million people (see Cleveland, Saint Louis, Charlotte, so on and so forth).
Exactly, and counties are much smaller in the eastern half of the country, too. Here in the Twin Cities, which is a metro of only 3.5 million, we have over 300 separate municipalities making up the suburban area, whereas somewhere like Phoenix, with 4.5 million, has merely 20 or so separate municipalities total within their metro. Kind of mind-boggling that individual suburbs down there can cover such an enormous land area.
Same here, we have something like 135 different suburbs. Until the year 2000 the only suburb in Chicago with over 100,000 was Aurora. Now there are five, but the other four are really barely over 100,000.
It's crazy that of the 7,000,000 suburban residents here....only 600,000 live in a city of over 100,000.
I'm not sure these metrics tell us anything other than which cities have fractured regions with too many municipalities, and which regions don't.
yes probably so, there are benefit from larger municipalities for planning and funding in today age i would think
take Montgomery County PA just wet of PA, ~840K peoiple in about 2/3rds the land area of Houstn but no town over 100K. The eatern portion is actually pretty dense but very small municipalities
Gets me thinking, would you personally as a native Torontonian say that Toronto is a centralized city and metropolitan area OR a decentralized city and metropolitan area? Or neither, meaning it is a centralized city in a metropolitan area that is decentralized?
I'd say a centralized city in a metro that is decentralized.
Exactly, and counties are much smaller in the eastern half of the country, too. Here in the Twin Cities, which is a metro of only 3.5 million, we have over 300 separate municipalities making up the suburban area, whereas somewhere like Phoenix, with 4.5 million, has merely 20 or so separate municipalities total within their metro. Kind of mind-boggling that individual suburbs down there can cover such an enormous land area.
In Los Angeles (and to some extent the Bay) it's a little different because the region not one center city with suburbs around it. Instead, it is like a constellation of cities that have slowly grown into each other. For instance, Long Beach, Glendale, and Pasadena has downtowns that could rival many small metro area anchors (and in LB's case even some mid-size ones). Even Burbank, Riverside, San Bernardino, Anaheim, and Santa Ana have fairly large historic cores (SB and Anaheim's being essentially annihilated).
The reason Philadelphia doesn't have many is because of it's borough/township/city designations that have divided up all the land into small incorporated communities. I think it's a good thing IMO, as there is a lot of variation in town character throughout the Philadelphia suburbs. Despite high density, none of the communities are large enough in land area to make 100,000 people.
lower marion,abington,camden,cherry hill,... are huge.
Last edited by stanley-88888888; 10-31-2016 at 10:53 PM..
lower marion,abington,camden,cherry hill,... are huge.
huge how? population or land area?
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