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Old 11-10-2013, 03:15 PM
 
Location: The Heart of Dixie
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Baltimore has a nice shape, with the excpetion of the shoreline, the other borders are all straight lines.
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Old 11-10-2013, 04:38 PM
 
Location: Mishawaka, Indiana
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A lot of younger cities have far larger and far more scribble like lines in their boundaries due to annexation. Cities like Boston and Baltimore probably haven't redrawn or expanded the city limits for decades, maybe even a century. Whereas most sunbelt cities, midwest cities, or west coast cities are much younger and are always expanding city land.
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Old 11-10-2013, 07:33 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Cities have boundaries that have evolved according to the best interests of the people who live there and the development of their community. Which sounds like a lot better idea than having an artist draw them in advance, without regard to which areas would have potential for development and demographic dynamics.
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Old 11-10-2013, 10:06 PM
 
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It's written into the MO constitution that St. Louis can never expand its small borders.
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Old 11-10-2013, 10:12 PM
 
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It's written into the MO constitution that St. Louis can never expand its small borders.
Tbh, I don't know if you're sarcastic or not. Judging by the St. Louis city-limits, I also wonder why they don't annex the surrounding areas. Unless it really is prohibited by the Missouri constitution lol.
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Old 11-10-2013, 10:25 PM
 
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I'll add a few others:

Like that one town posted by bslette, Anchorage also has huge city-limits encompassing a bunch of land, and at the same time, it doesn't look out of order, which is surprising when you look at the terrain.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Ancho...ge,+Alaska&z=9

Oakland looks like an amoeba, especially with Piedmont in the middle (reminds me of Lesotho and South Africa):
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Oakla...alifornia&z=11
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Old 11-11-2013, 12:01 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Tbh, I don't know if you're sarcastic or not. Judging by the St. Louis city-limits, I also wonder why they don't annex the surrounding areas. Unless it really is prohibited by the Missouri constitution lol.
Sr. Louis city was originally in St. Louis County, but their separation was ratified by a constitutional convention. So, technically, it would require a constitutional amendment for the present boundaries of the city of St. Louis to be altered.

As a general rule, the county boundaries in all states are bound by the state constitution, which provides for any mechanisms for county boundaries to be chanted. St. Louis is not in any county, it is an "independent city", but its boundaries are defined as the border of St. Louis County, and by the state line.

However, there nothing in Missouri law nor constitution to prevent a city from being in two or more counties (Kansas City is in four), so theoretically, St. Louis City could expand into St. Louis County.

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Old 11-11-2013, 12:07 AM
 
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Sr. Louis city was originally in St. Louis County, but their separation was ratified by a constitutional convention. So, technically, it would require a constitutional amendment for the present boundaries of the city of St. Louis to be altered.
You're right. Baltimore is also a city that doesn't belong to a county. Though Baltimore was already built out and had its borders planned accordingly.
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Old 11-11-2013, 12:13 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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You're right. Baltimore is also a city that doesn't belong to a county. Though Baltimore was already built out and had its borders planned accordingly.
Virginia, uniquely, has about 40 of them, but (I believe) each city can expand, capturing territory from the adjacent county jurisdiction. A number of other cities have amalgamated with their county, making the city coterminous with its county (Lexington, Nashville, Jacksonville, Miami, and a few others, Butte and Carson City come to mind), so there is no distinction between the city and county. San Francisco, Denver, New Orleans, and Philadelphia (coincidentally, the 4 cities that have had US mints) have been that way forever.

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Old 11-12-2013, 10:50 PM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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Midwest borders look nice, it's the Southern borders that look hideous.
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