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Originally Posted by Acajack
I think this is a valid question. In some cities where a larger municipality was created with an inner very urban portion and less urban outer areas, there is potential for the outer zones to dominate its governance politically, and sometimes leads to decisions that can be detrimental to the inner core. Tread carefully on that front, I'd say.
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Yes, this is exactly what I mean. Some coordination is good, but allowing the suburban masses (whether in poor
banlieue or bourgeois suburbs to the southwest) to dominate metropolitan politics would probably not be good for the center of Paris.
In American metros with weak cores and most wealth in the suburbs, the political fragmentation is detrimental to the urban core. In a city like Paris, the opposite might be true.