This integration into the city proper has brought with it big city problems.
It's a city problem, but may now become a real one.
Or is the inner city problem no more than an exercise in name-calling?
The urban crisis or the inner city problem conflates a number of quite different economic, political and social issues.
"It's true, we are a suburban town with city problems," he said.
"We decided to spend the money on more pressing city problems."
More regional services will create more cohesion to deal with city problems.
"We have all the big city problems in a little city setting," he said.
But now he is coping with the overwhelming effects of neighboring construction, a common city problem.
Before that, the 1958 master plan had already been designed to solve the city problems.