Talk:English Core Cities Group
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There should be a "core city" disambiguation page. In the United States, a core city is an older one, typically arising before the development of modern transportation, which now forms the center of a greater metropolitan area.
[edit] Deleted uncited and inconsistent statement
I've deleted the following statement because it is uncited, inconsistent with the list of cities in the article (which quotes two cities in both of two regions), and rather incomprehensible (especially the last sentence):
- The cities in the group are the heads of urban areas that correspond to the largest urban areas in England outside London. However, Nottingham and Newcastle do not feature in the eight largest cities outside London by population, as their district boundaries are tightly drawn (cities including Coventry, Bradford and Leicester are all more populous, but have smaller urban areas).
I've tried to follow up the links, but the core cities own web site is totally vague about what constitutes the region each city is 'head of'. I suspect it is a different set of regions from the UK government regions that the article uses, but cannot really tell.
Bottom line. A group of big cities have got together in an association to push their case against other possible groupings of cities, and need some justification for doing so. Trying to put strict geographic and numeric justifications for who is in the group and who isn't is probably just playing past the post rationalisation, and WP should remain aloof. Report the fact there is a grouping, who is in it, and leave it at that. -- Chris j wood (talk) 14:33, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- The regions are being used in regional planning. As far as I can tell, we only have an article on one - the Sheffield City Region. Warofdreams talk 18:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Coats of arms
Could someone upload the coats of arms of the eight Core Cities to Commons and place the images in the right categories? Thanks. Pabletex (talk) 18:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
