[MrVandelay]

It seems that cultural diversity ranks pretty high among people on this forum for what defines a city, but what about other aspects? Los Angeles is stacked with suburbia, but if you look at some of these suburban cities, they have quite a bit going for them such as city centers, sea ports, and in some cases their own Intl airport (John Wayne for example).

I recently read an article that more people are employed within the city limits of bellevue than the number of people that actually live there. I would think that would mean people outside of Bellevue are commuting here to work, which starts to sound more like a 'City' than a 'suburb'.

Perhaps the result of past urban sprawl, is the birth of downtown cores appearing in previous city suburbs.