Talk:Blue Banana

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Paris is clearly not inside the blue banana depicted in the picture, what's up with that?

You're right, Paris isn't part of the picture, however, they are part of the Blue Banana. The Blue Banana is a megalopolis, in which more BPP is made, which has a large concentration of people, not far from another city/ agglomeration, which also is able to be an important weight in the economy, innovation and power of the country/ entity (the Blue Banana, for example, is perhaps the most important region of the EU, most of the GDP (PPP) and GDP is made here, the de facto capital of the EU is in it's bounderies, together with the 4 biggest airports of the EU). Officialy, Paris wasn't part of the Blue Banana, in recent years, however, they are. The same counts for the West-Midlands in the UK and Turin in Italy. I will change that also. This link [1] explains a little bit what the Blue Banana is, in a few words. Reading that, it is normal to see the Paris agglomeration as part of the Blue Banana. There was a link at the bottom of the article, but that links doesn't function anymore (they've moved) :-s I'll try to find new, other links, which will state the same thing. --Robster1983 18:56, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't trust your source, unless you think a bunch of marketers, who probably cribbed their paragraph from Wikipedia anyway, have some kind of geographical repute. For further proof of this source's repute, their map of the Blue Banana misses London entirely. Matthew (talk) 12:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

- Strasbourg???

Strasbourg clearly is in the blue banana, so I put it in the chart of cities on the page. I believe Alsace is the second richest region of France behind Ile-de-France, so Strasbourg definately contributes to the economic wealth of the banana —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.224.29.201 (talk) 00:02, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Arnhem/Nijmegen and Brabantse Stedenrij part of Randstad???

I can see that somebody would have a city as Breda (Westernmost city in Brabantse stedenrij) counted as being part of Randstad. But Eindhoven or Arnhem/Nijmegen? That's just a load of shite. Nijmegen is closer to Dusseldorf than it is to Amsterdam, and Krefeld is just as far as Utrecht. Why not consider Arnhem/Nijmegen to be part of Rhein-Ruhr instead. Same goes for Eindhoven, which is a metropolis in it's own right. A small one, but still, no part whatsoever of Randstad. Clint.hotvedt (talk) 20:43, 7 May 2008 (UTC)