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Old Posted Jul 20, 2018, 2:35 AM
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Boston and it's satellite cities (worchester, lowell etc) seems the most multi-nodal to me.
Boston is completely dominant in the scheme of things, especially if you consider its inner suburbs to be Boston-runoff and not standalone cities.

A good example I can think of is "The Triangle" in North Carolina, which is made up of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. For years on end, this was (still is?) among the top few areas in the US for percentage population growth.

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Old Posted Jul 20, 2018, 3:06 AM
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By your definition, the LA wouldn't count. It does overwhelm the metro. That said, it's dowtown doesn't nor the city itself.
I was following what the thread starter described in his 2nd paragraph.
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While Hankou is still the traditional centre:

I wonder if trumpet players are a real problem on that street? It looks like pollution might be a bigger challenge.
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The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area is by far Germany's most populous with close to 11 million people and it is highly polycentric. It contains 20 cities with over 100,000 people yet none are over 1 million. Cologne, Dusseldorf, Essen and Dortmund all have more than 500,000. The former capital of West Germany, Bonn, is also part of this conglomeration.
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^ I think Cologne has 1 million.
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from bend to boise its 5 hours and slc to there it 5 hrs. overpopulation im saying jk. it would be nice if there was one more city.
maybe Baker City will experience Dubai-like growth! then you'd have a nice Bend-Baker-Boise corridor.

huh...bend baker boise…it's almost a sentence.
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Houston also totally dominates its metro.

Houston: 2.3 million
Pasadena: 149,000
Pearland: 120,000
Sugar Land: 119,000
The Woodlands: 116,000 (not even a city but a CDP, unincorporated)
League City: 102,000
Katy area: ~270,000 (includes city of Katy and unincorporated areas around it)
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^ I think Cologne has 1 million.
Yeah, Cologne proper has around 1.1 million people. But, as in the U.S., city proper populations in Germany are largely irrelevent to overall "city" size.

I agree that Rhein-Ruhr would be a good example. It might be the best example. By some measures the largest "metro" in Europe yet nothing close to a dominant center.
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maybe Baker City will experience Dubai-like growth! then you'd have a nice Bend-Baker-Boise corridor.

huh...bend baker boise…it's almost a sentence.
bend and boise metro. sounds like a name of a rap song. bad and boujee
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I wonder if trumpet players are a real problem on that street? It looks like pollution might be a bigger challenge.
LOL I think it means no honking. Or weird snakes.
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There are only a few in the US that I'd describe as multi-nodal going off of the OP's post:

Hampton Roads
The Bay Area
South Florida
The Triangle
North Texas
Twin Cities

All others are just your general large metro area with multiple business districts in the city and smaller suburbs.
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Old Posted Jul 21, 2018, 5:08 PM
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There are only a few in the US that I'd describe as multi-nodal going off of the OP's post:

Hampton Roads
The Bay Area
South Florida
The Triangle
North Texas
Twin Cities

All others are just your general large metro area with multiple business districts in the city and smaller suburbs.
What about the RGV?

I think the RGV area in TX might be #1 in the US for this topic
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There are only a few in the US that I'd describe as multi-nodal going off of the OP's post:

Hampton Roads
The Bay Area
South Florida
The Triangle
North Texas
Twin Cities

All others are just your general large metro area with multiple business districts in the city and smaller suburbs.
You've left out the other Bay area: Tampa-St. Pete.
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a few more, though i'm not sure if they completely qualify - seattle-tacoma, philly-wilmington
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You've left out the other Bay area: Tampa-St. Pete.
yeah I forgot a couple. Tampa Bay Area, Rio Grande Valley, The Triad, etc.

There's more than I thought and this doesn't count the smaller cities like a Spokane-Coeur D'Alene or Texarkana.
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for a smaller metro, the quad cities has to be one of the most multi-polar ones around. and it straddles the mighty mississippi across the IL/IA border just to make things even more interesting.

quad cities MSA: ~380,000

the four principle cities:

davenport, IA: 102,000
moline, IL: 42,000
rock island, IL: 39,000
bettendorf, IA: 36,000

the 4 respective downtowns of the cities effectively form a rectangle of 3.5 miles x 1 mile, with the shorter length essentially being the width of the mississippi itself and its banks. it's a pretty unconventional arrangement to have 4 distinct old school downtowns in such a small metro area all in such relatively close proximity to each other (though bettendorf's traditional downtown has almost been wiped clean off the map these days).
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Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge Southwest of Toronto is a very good example for a smaller multi-nodal metro. Cambridge itself is made up of three smaller former towns with their own downtown areas, so it's really 5 communities making up one metro of over 500,000 people. Guelph is also nearby, but it's a separate metro area.
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It seems like a lot of "coal-mining" regions might qualify. Examples I'm aware of:

USA:
Scranton / Wilkes-Barre

Germany:
Ruhr Valley

Poland/Czechia:
Silesian Metroopolis

Romania:
Jiu Valley
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There are only a few in the US that I'd describe as multi-nodal going off of the OP's post:

Hampton Roads
The Bay Area
South Florida
The Triangle
North Texas
Twin Cities

All others are just your general large metro area with multiple business districts in the city and smaller suburbs.
Technically, South Florida doesn't have one municipality that dominates population figures but it's highly geared toward Miami. Maybe I'm wrong?
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Old Posted Jul 24, 2018, 4:25 AM
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^^^ You're right. Miami is the "main city" for South Florida since it's the most populous and widely recognized. But on the ground here, West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, not to mentioned smaller localities like Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Hollywood, and even Miami Beach hold out on their own as independent nodes.
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