Modern metropolitanization detached the real city from its legal boundaries

Evidence

The preindustrial city could, more easily than can the modern, be located within its political boundaries. The twentieth century phenomenon of “massive metropolitanization” pushes the meaningful limits of a city far beyond those which are legally designated. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1122

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘modern city’ as including legally separate satellites, which is the essential scope premise for the whole flâneur analysis.
• XREF: connects to: Municipal borders are legal creations, not natural features — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 1347