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The struggling South Sydney Rabbitohs have announced the return of former assistant coach David Furner, reuniting the veteran mentor with head coach Jason Demetriou.

In short, there is no answer if you keep adding irrelevant metrics. Partly this is because of the English language where a word may have a very specific meaning but may also have general meanings at the same time. Formally, a city is a population centre that has been designated a city by the relevant Government authority. Informally and historically, a city is a large urban area that is larger than a town or village. Unfortunately in the second case, town and village can also have the same formal or informal usage so we can end up trying to define A by using terms B and C which also are undefined. Your problem is that you are swapping back and forth between the two types of usage. You accept that the formal definition exists but then you think that an example of the informal usage undermines the formal status of city. The only useful black-and-white answer is to ignore the area and the people and use a purely legal definition of the local council's powers. A city is a corporate body with specific legal powers which are only held by cities. Somebody mentioned Chongqing well this model is the basis of the Chinese system of cities. It is also the basis of the Australian model. If you strip away all the history of England you will probably find that today's English cities are only cities because a central authority said they were and gave them city-specific powers. The fact that a city contains rural land is irrelevant because a city has the legal authority to control land use and zoning. I live in a street that is currently zoned residential but that only happened about 10 years ago. For the previous 14 years I lived in the same place and it was zoned agricultural like most of the land around here. I lived in the City of Blacktown the whole time. This combination of urban/rural has no bearing on the formal definition of a city. Here in Greater Sydney, most cities - there are about 17 cities and 10 municipalities plus 2 Shires in Greater Sydney - are the product of conurbation, where separate farms swelled to villages, then to towns and eventually formed a continuous urban area. This is a fairly standard global model and means that there will always be rural areas with larger city boundaries. You mention a village within a London borough but so what? From my cursory glance at Wikipedia this seems more like the product of Government decision to maintain low-density areas with open space, rather than any definitive undermining of the definition of a city. My area has designated, no-development areas right through it. They're called flood plains and most can be used for agricultural purposes but they don't stop Blacktown being a city. We often find historically significant places maintained in a relatively undeveloped state, even when they fall within urban areas. A city is a city because the Govt body with the legal authority to designate an area as a city has designated that area as a city.

In Australia, it all comes down to finances. A city is a population centre which is capable of being financially self-sustaining while providing the full range of modern municipal services. A city can raise its own money by borrowing. A shire can only get money (in NSW) from the Dept of Local Govt. In between these we have municipality, suburb, county, town and locality. Most of these are just geographical distinctions such as county which exists only at the Land Titles Office. Population is generally irrelevant. For example, the City of Brisbane has 1.2 million people while City of Sydney only has 225K.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/nrl-referees-des-hasler-ricky-stuart-chevy-stewart-offside/103709816

FT" St George 24 Wests 12

70min: Kepaoa try after Wests spent some extended time in the attacking 20m Koroisau goal Wests 12 - 24

63: Sewer try after Wests let about 4 offloads get away in one play Lomax goal 24 - 6

60min: Lomax penalty goal after Klemmer hit Flanagan in the head with his shoulder but no bin. St George 18 - 6

52min: Staines grounds it but ... bunker says Tigers knocked on in the lead-up

It's hard to muster much optimism for the second half when Wests have lost their last 38 games when trailing at HT.

HT St George 16 Wests 6 Jack Bird not coming back from HIA

36min: Lomax takes high attacking kick and passes to Flanagan who scores. Commentators seemed to think Flanagan was offside at the kick but bunker didn't think so Lomax goal St George 16 - 6

Wow! was that a penalty for deliberate knock forward and regather?

27min: Jack Bird try after some ad lib play by St George Lomax goal St George 10 - 6