Talk:List of inner suburbs in the United States

Atlanta, Georgia
I removed Brookhaven, Chamblee, Sandy Springs, Smyrna, Vinings and assorted DeKalb County CDPs from the list of inner suburbs of Atlanta because they didn't experience suburban development until the post-war era. Their development was also primarily automobile driven, as opposed to the more rail driven development of suburbs such as East Point and College Park. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Owenpoconnell (talk • contribs) 01:30, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Philadelphia/Cherry Hill
I'm removing Cherry Hill from the list of inner NJ suburbs for Philadelphia. Cherry Hill developed as a suburb of Philadelphia exclusively in the post-war era, with automobile driven development, while the other names on the list are largely railroad suburbs (or ferry suburbs) that developed significantly earlier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.247.166.28 (talk) 22:39, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Boston/Burlington
For similar reasons as Cherry Hill, I've removed Burlington from the list of inner-ring Boston suburbs. Per the town's article, it has primarily been agricultural, was passed by in Boston's significant early rail development, and primarily developed a commercial presence with the advent of post-WWII highways. It is is also geographically discontinuous from every other town in the list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexanderTD (talk • contribs) 22:04, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Phoenix, Arizona
Why were Scottsdale and Glendale removed from this list? They are suburbs by definition and share a common border with the city of Phoenix. Also, Avondale shares a border with Phoenix along parts of 99th Avenue. Msr69er (talk) 04:05, 3 January 2021 (UTC) Scottsdale and Glendale arguably began major development before World War II. Most of the city of Phoenix and suburbs developed after WWII so the inner suburbs of Phoenix, and also a lot of other cities in the West such as Las Vegas, cannot be defined as strictly as older cities on the East Coast or the Midwest (Los Angeles, and to an extent San Francisco, are exceptions because major inner suburban development was well underway there by the 1920s and 1930s.) I have added those two back to the list. --Msr69er (talk) 04:20, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Needs
The list is completely unsourced except for one dead link. Also, the definition of "inner suburb" is unsourced and is not a model of clarity. Because of that, it is not clear how we are deciding which communities to include in the list. I am not sure it makes sense to have this list at all if we don't address these issues. MonMothma (talk) 03:26, 18 August 2023 (UTC)