What makes a city?

Slunk

Trying to settle something here. What three things make a city? A river, cathedral and what ?

Archeron

Rock and Roll.

The Backwards Man

A population.

Duckworth_Luas

Slunk wrote: »

Trying to settle something here. What three things make a city? A river, cathedral and what ?

A Regional Technical College

Frosty McSnowballs

A Lidl

Boscoirl

Not being kilkenny

ArtyM

An enormous front door Lock - have you seen the size of those keys to the city they give to famous people?

Banjo String

A supermacs.

Kevin McCloud

Penneys

DeadHand

Snobbery.

Duckworth_Luas

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

A Regional Technical College

DeadHand wrote: »

Snobbery.

An Institute of Technology

hfallada

Well in Ireland not a whole load. Most cities in Ireland have the population of a typical suburb

spiritcrusher

Two cathedrals. Seriously.

Mint Sauce

Slunk wrote: »

Trying to settle something here. What three things make a city? A river, cathedral and what ?

A proper city.

A population, a proper transport infrastructure, and a commerce hub. None of which any of our Islands cities are excelling in.

Mr_Muffin

The only cities in Ireland are Dublin and Cork and Cork could pass as a town quite easily if need be.

nocoverart

Empty streets.

AnonoBoy

To be a city you need a classic Northside/Southside Westside/Eastside divide which is ripe for parody in a delicious ski school comedy where a ragtag bunch of misfits from the wrong side of the tracks come up against a bunch of snobs poshos who all dress in black and have blond hair.

Banjo String

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

The only cities in Ireland are Dublin and Cork.

And Termonfeckin.

Ruu

We built this city on rock and/or roll according to Starship.

Slunk

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

The only cities in Ireland are Dublin and Cork and Cork could pass as a town quite easily if need be.

According to wiki Ireland has five cities. Dublin cork Waterford galway and somewhere else

AnonoBoy

Slunk wrote: »

According to wiki Ireland has five cities. Dublin cork Waterford galway and somewhere else

Quality memory there boss!

ollaetta

Slunk wrote: »

According to wiki Ireland has five cities. Dublin cork Waterford galway and somewhere else

Limerick, I suppose. Kilkenny also claims city status based on some royal charter back in the Middle Ages or something like that. Yawn!

John Doe1

It depends on the country, every settlement above 5,000 is deemed a city in Norway. Some states in America have cities of 1,000.

In Ireland, all cities had a charter from the King/Queen.

Dublin and Belfast are the major settlements on the island but that doesnt lessen the fact that Kilkenny and Newry deserve their city status as there are much smaller settlements in europe called cities.

Mint Sauce

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

The only cities in Ireland are Dublin and Cork and Cork could pass as a town quite easily if need be.

Belfast?

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John Doe1

Slunk wrote: »

According to wiki Ireland has five cities. Dublin cork Waterford galway and somewhere else

Limerick, and northern Ireland has a further 5.

Rabbo

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

The only cities in Ireland are Dublin and Cork and Cork could pass as a town quite easily if need be.

Cork has 2 cathedrals, university, international airport, institute of technology, numerous other third level institutions, 5 or 6 hospitals, the only level 1 trauma centre in the country, a significant port, a population of 190,000 (another 3-400,000 in the rest of the county) and has a larger population than alot of UK cities such as Bath, Oxford and Exeter.

But, no, it's clearly a town.

John Doe1

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Belfast?

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Cork-180,000

Belfast-580,000

Yup, checks out:p

The Backwards Man

Ruu wrote: »

We built this city on rock and/or roll according to Starship.

Don't get me started on Grace Slick lyrics!

The One Doctor

hfallada wrote: »

Well in Ireland not a whole load. Most cities in Ireland have the population of a typical suburb

To be fair, Reykjavik has the population of one of Dublin's suburbs.

AnonoBoy

Ruu wrote: »

We built this city on rock and/or roll according to Starship.

A city built on rock and roll would be structurally unsound.

*pushes glasses up nose*

The Th!ng

Wheel clampers.

A professional sports team helps.

And an international airport.

Karpackie

A Chinese restaurant that serves authentic food from a region of China where the chefs grew up in. And that includes adding loads of MSG. About 3 of them in the whole of Dublin. None of them that cheap.

Summer wind

A song: The Cold Windy City Of Chicago.

WINGDIPEST

Slunk wrote: »

Trying to settle something here. What three things make a city? A river, cathedral and what ?

flocks of sheep
lots of sheep

tv/chemtrails/tap water

I'm not afraid to shout "cherries" out loud in a crowd for no reason.
I'm a transatlantic flight on drugs by night
I'm steven seagal's left eyebrow when his eating toffee but I'm also his right one but only when his drinking coffee !

fleet_admiral

Sligo is a city is it not? It's big and has signs saying city centre

Dum_Dum

People > 500,000

Henlars67

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Sligo is a city is it not? It's big and has signs saying city centre

There's a few local idiots who think they're important who have bestowed city status on Sligo. As far as I'm aware there's nothing official in it.

90% of people here are quite happy with Sligo being a town.

zcorpian88

Jobs of all descriptions, not just retail and pubs.

Like factories and multi national companies.

Having a college/university not just these local ****holes handing out Level 5 at the highest.

anncoates

A significant population of culchies that wax nostalgically about 'back home' but won;t go and live there.

Omackeral

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Sligo is a city is it not? It's big and has signs saying city centre

They're pointing to Galway. Newry being a city is a good one. Tallaght is more of one.

anncoates

Omackeral wrote: »

Tallaght is more of one.

Nearly up with Galway now, population wise..

OldGoat

AnonoBoy wrote: »

A city built on rock and roll would be structurally unsound.

*pushes glasses up nose*

...would be structurally ONsound

*Zips up anorak

Lapin

A University.

Maynooth is a metropolis.

Waterford is...........






Waterford ?

The_Captain

Having a university would be a good shout. Maynooth isn't a real university though, it's just a place to put idiots for three years to stop them hurting other people

biko

There are no proper cities in Ireland, only large towns full of townies and loathing for anyone else.

iDave

biko wrote: »

There are no proper cities in Ireland.

Brought to you by the Mod for the Galway CITY forum. :P

Richard

John Doe1 wrote: »

Cork-180,000

Belfast-580,000

Yup, checks out:p

To be fair, it isn't just about population. Which is lucky for these lads:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Davids

Iwasfrozen

Slunk wrote: »

Trying to settle something here. What three things make a city? A river, cathedral and what ?

A city charter is the only thing it needs ASAIK.

Magico Gonzalez

The worst nonsense is Lisburn city, once a borough of Belfast, now a city.

smcgiff

Try 280k for Belfast city