Talk:City proper

Tokyo
Just wanted to agree with the other poster. When I read "City proper is often misused for the city center. The city proper of Tokyo includes islands nearly 2000 km away," I find it funny because although I understand what's trying to be conveyed, they couldn't have picked a worse example. Tokyo is NOT a city in the municipal sense, though the prefecture government does oversee some of the things a city normally would. So there is no "Tokyo Proper" in the literal sense as their is no municipal Tokyo. While "Tokyo Proper" may refer to the heart of the urban area, it doesn't include islands 2,000 km away, or any territory for that matter, as there is no true Tokyo Proper on the municipal level. 98.221.141.21 (talk) 23:53, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Tokyo Metropolis is not a city. "23 special wards" as a whole is not also a city, but has been considered as a city proper of Tokyo.
Tokyo Metropolis may be considered as a city, but is not called a city. Rather, 23 speciral wards (Tokubetsu-kubu) as a whole has been customary called and translated a city proper of Tokyo. This is not a misuse at all, for 23 special wards as a whole is an administrative unit without an administrator. It has a status of the "special local public entities" according to the Articles 281 to 284 of the "Local Autonomy Law" of Japan. The 23 special wards as a whole provides very limited civil services, but is an administrative unit anyway.

If there be a misuse, talking about the present city of Tokyo is a misuse, because there exists no longer the city of Tokyo. Nowadays, the people working for special wards began to use the word "city" for "ward", and "mayor" for "head of the special ward", so such translation may not be no longer wrong. but Tokyo Metropolis has never been translated as a city, except for those who do not know about the administrative units in Japan.

If a city of Tokyo is used conceptually, it may be OK to talk about the city of Tokyo, but such sentences like "Tokyo Metropolis is a city." is perfectly wrong. Statements should be made with care, for example, "Tokyo Metropolis as a whole can be regareded as a city proper." (but I saw no books to state the whole Tokyo metropolis a city proper).Aurichalcum (talk) 12:55, 7 August 2010 (UTC)Aurichalcum (talk) 12:56, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

POV
This article seems to have been created for the sole purpose of advancing the claims in World's largest municipalities by population, and refuses to acknowledge the perfectly valid definition of "city proper" as "a city, excluding its suburbs." I'm tempted to nominate it for deletion, as it originally redirected to City limits, but I'd like to see what else can be done with this article to improve it. Someone the Person (talk) 13:46, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

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London
How does "city proper" work for London? After all, there is a City of London which is the smallest city (at least by nighttime population) in England at (according to the article) 9401. Nonetheless Greater London is far larger nor only than any other UK city but also than any UK metropolitan county.

So how does "city proper" work for: (a) London, and (b) the other Metropolitan counties (especially Manchester, more so than say Birmingham/the West Midlands as Greater Manchester is quite closely integrated)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uncriticalsimon (talk • contribs) 21:10, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

"The term is synonymous with Central City" - is it?
I do not think so - at least not universally and not in the way implied by that sentence. Do the cited sources actually say that? From their headlines they seem to me to be about the Angloamerican perception of "inner cities" (yet another term) as crime-ridden and full of "undesireables". The term "city proper", however is about administrative boundaries, an issue with some connections to the other (gerrymandered urban boundaries as a result of white flight and suburban tax-dodging come to mind) but by no means identical to it - especially in countries with different politics and different ethnic cleavages. In France, for example, the associations Angloamericans have with "inner cities" are rather put on the banlieus. Plus gentrification is changing the inner city- both perception and reality. 2001:A62:1453:5602:A95A:9762:7DDC:387D (talk) 12:51, 1 April 2024 (UTC)