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Here in the US cities are weird. Los Angeles is an example of a sprawl with multiple 'downtowns' connected with 8-lane highways and suburbia in-between, full of malls and swimming pools. Not what I would call a city personally (more like a vision of hell). But it's big and largely unwalkable, whatever it is.
Cities are formed by inflated towns that run into each other. Like that game where small cells are consumed by larger ones, towns are absorbed into larger and politically mightier townships and eventually form cities. But that's not what I am talking about.
Look out the window. Do you see electrical wires on a pole? Town.
Or in other words, when a transformer blows, does it set a tree on fire? Town (or maybe a village or rural?). Does it blow a manhole cover sending 100 kilos of cast iron up into the air? City.