New Maps Added to 'Speculative Geography' LINKS

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 108174

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <asian_lovr2 at y...> 
wrote:

> > Geoff:
> > You seem to have invented a whole heap of cities in your notes. 
The 
> > only cities on the map would be the cities of London and 
> > Westminster. 
> > 
> 
> 
> Asian_lovr2:
> 
> Semantics; my use of the word 'cities' was a general description, 
not
> a formal definition. They are all bounded incorporated communities 
in
> which people live, generally, that's a cities even when the 
political
> system doesn't define it as such. Again, it was a generalization.

Geoff:
I should have included this with my last post but overlooked it. In 
the UK, the definition of city is much tighter. From my dictionary...

"a large town, in particular (Brit) a town created a city by charter 
and containing a cathedral."

This is not quite true today, as there are modern cathedrals 
(Guildford in Surrey for example) which do not have that status and a 
number of towns have been upgraded to city status recently 
(Sunderland, Brighton, Swindon etc.) to mark special occasions such 
as the Millennium and the Golden Jubilee but only after lobbying etc.

Therefore, being a city is a jealously guarded privilege, not for the 
likes of Haslemere or Epsom (close to which I taught for 30 years).
:-))