Talk:Larger Urban Zones in the European Union

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[edit] Ruhr Area

The Urban Audit definition only includes the northern part of the Rhein-Ruhr agglomeration, and excludes Dusseldorf and Koln areas. The 2001 population figure for the Ruhr Area is only 5.36 million. The official definition should be used if we're going to claim this as based on the Urban Audit program. --Polaron | Talk 18:20, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I fully agree. I still need to search their database for LUZ that are not typical city agglomorations, eg Randstad, Rhein-Ruhr, etc. I was thinking of putting them into a separate list. JGG 22:36, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Either you make a list of largest cities, including only the Parisian municipality, or you make a list of metropolitan areas including the Randstad and the Ruhrarea. Like this it is misleading.
Admitted - I will change this JGG 09:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why only cities over 1 million?

Why are only cities with city population above 1 million included here, if it is an metropolitan area list? This way some important cities like Athens (LUZ 3,9 million) or Manchester (LUZ 2,5 million) are missing.


[edit] Italian Cities - ONU data

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wup2003/2003WUPHighlights.pdf Tabella A-12, PAGINA 130:

Country and agglomeration 2005

ITALY


Milan 4.007.000

"DEMOGRAPHIA-WORLD URBAN AREA" http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf PAGINA 21:

Italy Milan 4,250,000

Estratto da "http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussione:Aree_urbane_pi%C3%B9_popolose_dell%27Unione_Europea"


[edit] Milano

Hi, there is a big mistake about Milan. the Urban Area of Milan, the real city is of 4.280.000 people. the real city is 1.303.437, the urban area is 3,884,481 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan) the sprawling, the Metro Area is of 7.400.000 of people, as was for the first time officialy calculated by OECD / OCSE just 3 days ago.

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/14/62/37720067.pdf

OECD Territorial Reviews: Milan, Italy

"Milan is often identified as a prosperous region and an international capital of fashion and design. Once a successful industrial city located in the northern part of Italy, Milan has grown into the core of a wider industrial metropolitan region that is home to more than 7 million people. The OECD Territorial Review of Milan recognises that Milan’s historical skills endowment and its advantageous geographic location could underpin its ambition to become a southern European and Mediterranean capital. At the same time, the Review demonstrates that Milan displays disappointing international performances and seems to have lost part of its long-established drive..."

[edit] Stockholm

All sources point out that the city proper of Stockholm has about 788.000 inhabitants, but anyway Polaron does not agree with me and reverts. What can we do about this? Calle Widmann 06:58, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

All data here is from the Eurostat database and is harmonized for 2001. Please look at the cited source for the article. --Polaron | Talk 12:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Marseille?

The population of Marseille's urban zone is definitely larger than 1 million, and the city should be somewhere in this list. Marseille has sometimes been considered larger than Lyon. (On the Lyon WP page Marseille is considered the larger pf the two, on the Marseille WP page Lyon is considered the larger.) Anyway, the last census, according to this page, had Marseille's population at "1,605,000 inhabitants in 2007". Something must be wrong. Wahlin —Preceding comment was added at 22:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)