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Originally Posted by Yuri
I'm not ignoring anyone arguments. I just don't count London as polycentric for the purpose of this thread.
It's very straightforward: you don't say London plus hyphen as you do for Guangzhou-Shenzhen or Washington-Baltimore.
This thread is about how large a "city" (without hyphen) can grow.
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Those aren't cities. They are agglomerations of multiple cities, or "metropolitan areas", but a metro area is not a city. That's why you use a hyphen between the names of each individual city.
A polycentric city is a city (singular) with multiple centers. A monocentric city is a city with a single CBD.
Your thread title asks "How large can
a city grow?" The city referred to is singular, and agglomerations of cities or megalopoli have nothing to do with the question.
But my answer is STILL that a city like London, Tokyo or LA can grow to unlimited size, because no one needs to be able to get to a certain part of it from anywhere and everywhere (because they are polycentric!).