Editing City (section)

=== Urban areas ===
The urban-type settlement extends far beyond the traditional boundaries of the [[city proper]]<ref>Carter (1995), p. 15. "In the underbound city the administratively defined area is smaller than the physical extent of settlement. In the overbound city the administrative area is greater than the physical extent. The 'truebound' city is one where the administrative bound is nearly coincidental with the physical extent."</ref> in a form of development sometimes described critically as [[urban sprawl]].<ref>{{Cite book |year=2013 |author1=Paul James |author2=Meg Holden |author3=Mary Lewin |author4=Lyndsay Neilson |author5=Christine Oakley |author6=Art Truter |author7=David Wilmoth |chapter=Managing Metropolises by Negotiating Mega-Urban Growth |title=Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development |editor1=Harald Mieg |editor2=Klaus Töpfer |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/7207756 |publisher=Routledge |access-date=20 December 2017 |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816025327/https://www.academia.edu/7207756 |url-status=live }}</ref> Decentralization and dispersal of city functions (commercial, industrial, residential, cultural, political) has transformed the very meaning of the term and has challenged geographers seeking to classify territories according to an urban-rural binary.<ref name="HugoEtAl2003" />

[[Metropolitan area]]s include [[suburb]]s and [[exurb]]s organized around the needs of [[commuting|commuters]], and sometimes [[edge city|edge cities]] characterized by a degree of economic and political independence. (In the US these are grouped into [[metropolitan statistical areas]] for purposes of [[demography]] and [[marketing]].) Some cities are now part of a continuous urban landscape called [[urban agglomeration]], [[conurbation]], or [[megalopolis]] (exemplified by the [[northeast megalopolis|BosWash]] corridor of the [[Northeastern United States]].)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fang |first1=Chuanglin |last2=Yu |first2=Danlin |year=2017 |title=Urban agglomeration: An evolving concept of an emerging phenomenon |journal=Landscape and Urban Planning|volume=162 |pages=126–136 |doi=10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.02.014 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2017LUrbP.162..126F }}</ref>