Talk:Paris metropolitan area/Archives/2006/July
Metropolitan area/Île-de-France
[edit]A comment on the introduction addition: The Île-de-France is a result of a 1976 regrouping of administrative départements into a then-new administrative région jurisdiction; a Metropolitan Area (Fr: aire urbaine) is a purely statistical creation that is a 'string' network of commuter patterns together around a central urban agglomeration as a map of its economical influence on its surrounding area. Although the Île-de-France and Paris aire urbaine are similar in size, they share not the same origins, have nothing at all in common, so anything outside of a strictly size comparison is irrelevent - we cannot refer to one for information on the other. I understand that this amalgamme may simply be a result of the Metropolan Area's uncommon usage in France, and it is true that for understanding it helps to have a model to follow - but the Île de France isn't it. I hope you don't mind my changing this to a purely size comparison.