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politicized it by turning a term used by everyone that reflected a general dynamic region, into one that is rigid and inflexible and is a political boundary. in pretty much every case, it's used by the population to refer to the wider metropolitan area of their city, even if they don't understand what a metropolitan area really consists of. You will hear this whether in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, the US and Canada, whether referring to Greater Sydney or Greater L.A. However, the general term by the layman in every English speaking country outside the UK is 'greater xxx', where xxx is the city in question. It's also worth pointing out that metropolitan areas are very different to urban areas. Every country uses a different method to define this metropolitan areas, but a general theme is connectivity and commuting. This is generally speaking scientifically defined and changes with the flow of population fluctuations, urban & commuter growth. Today, the academic term for this is the metropolitan area.
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It is vital for understanding the infrastructure requirements of the whole area, along with the business needs, labour force, etc. There has been an understanding a long time ago, that a city is far more than just the political boundary of its council.
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The term 'Greater' preceding any city name, was (and still is) a term used by every country for a very long period of time to simply define the wider area of the city in question -including the UK until the 1960s. Click to expand.Sorry about dragging this back after a couple of months.