title: Extending the Concept of City for the Delineation of Large Urban Regions (LUR) for the Cities of the World
abstract: Cities&amp;rsquo; delineation remains a hot topic of debate in a time where comparisons between cities are becoming increasingly based on different issues that address various scales of interventions and thus different concepts of cities. Aiming to compare cities and their insertion into globalization, we suggest that the &amp;ldquo;urban field of influence&amp;rdquo; is the best way to approach cities for this specific perspective. However, after reviewing the different existing possible concep
journal: Preprints.org