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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
but official US MSAs/CSAs, with their wacky county mash-ups, tend to be ABSURDLY bloated and don't come very close to defining anything that I would recognize as a "city".
they're really just regional measures which, while interesting for what they are, fly well beyond the realm of "city".
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For the US, Canada, and other sprawly, auto-dependent countries, a more useful way to gauge the functional size of a "city" would be one which uses more fine-grained assessment of commuting patterns, looking at numbers commuting to a central city from the individual suburb and township level (rather than county-level detail that makes CSAs so bloated). If only that version existed.