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Do city types predict politics: port cities and openness against company towns and paternalism Every boundary case argues about which side of the typology it belongs on The same city can be filed under three different types depending on who is doing the sorting City types are labels used to sell a place as much as tools for analysis The same city gets typed as a port by economists and a tourist city by its own tourism board Twin and border cities resist the typology because they are one labour market across two jurisdictions Can a landmark be a bridge or a market rather than a monument? Statistical agencies classify cities by function: the categories they use and what falls between them Megacities as a category: does a population threshold say anything about how a city works? Most real cities are hybrids: the tourist port that is also a university town and a banking centre Can a city change its type on purpose or does reclassification only follow the money? When a type becomes a brand: how motor city and steel city outlive the industry Are global cities a genuine type or just a rank on a consultant's list? Does the industrial city still exist as a type once the factories are gone and the warehouses are lofts? Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is about cities that do not exist and the ones that do

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