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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 3957836, member: 181"] There is an understandable appeal for the point of view you advance, but that moves things beyond the nature of the thread. I sought only to offer that consolidated Stamford runs 40-50 square miles and incorporates multi-acreage, higher income back-country residents, whereas Hartford, Bridgeport, and New Haven are all smaller than 20 square miles, and, in effect, 'prove out' this later argument of yours by 'allowing,' for example, West Hartford, Fairfield to have vibrant downtowns as separate municipalities that were formed in the 19th and 17th Centuries respectively, and simply have to maintain a 'no encroachment' posture to, 'functionally' strand Hartford and Bridgeport with the common urban ills that beset most post-industrial American cities that thrived before automobiles, highways, single-family home ownership, computers, an information-service economy, and such...not to mention the collosal irony that air conditioning that originated from Syracuse's Carrier Corporation further transformed the South's livability and growth. I'm only suggesting that in most of the US, Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport would present as 300,000 person cities in 800,000 person metropolitan areas, and their wealth & economic vitality, natural beauty, history, culture, and ethnic-racial diversity would all compare attractively throughout the country. [/QUOTE]