Multi-county Municipalities

[craigs]

Originally Posted by mhays

AND it feels odd.

When did you become so aggressively provincial?

[Lobotomizer]

Austin is overwhelming in Travis County, but has spread into Williamson and Hays counties. At one point Austin had the second largest population in Williamson County behind Round Rock, but now there's a slew of boomburbs with a larger population.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by mhays

It feels odd to have neighborhoods that aren't based primarily on topography -- relationship to a waterfront, a hill, a valley, etc.

That is my decree, along with not using reinvented neighborhood names devised by business groups. It's Lower Queen Anne and not the millionth "Uptown" god damn it.

Some NYC neighborhoods have topography baked into the name (Washington Heights, Morningside Heights, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene) but those are the minority. Most are just arbitrary lines on a map that got their names from historical functions (Wall Street/Financial District), the names of landowning families, or marketing gimmicks.

[mhays]

Originally Posted by craigs

When did you become so aggressively provincial?

I'm being 30% facetious. But also topography (hills or at least lots of waterfronts) is key to a large percentage of world cities and even a great many in the US. Even omitting the West there's Boston, NY, Baltimore, DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, New Orleans, MSP...

[urbanactivist]

Originally Posted by JManc

Houston. It's mostly in Harris county but after decades of getting fat off annexations, it's spread into Ft. Bend and Montgomery counties.

Houston - Ft. Bend is something of a legendary community in local politics, having been the “spoiler” for several elections over the years (especially for news media that seem to ALWAYS FORGET to add their vote totals in until the very last second). We really never hear about the Montgomery county portion of the city, but the population of those folks really is tiny.

[AviationGuy]

Originally Posted by JManc

Houston. It's mostly in Harris county but after decades of getting fat off annexations, it's spread into Ft. Bend and Montgomery counties.

That spread began decades ago.