Urban Community of Lyon

{{French communate | nom=Urban Community of Lyon | logo=[[Image:grandlyon1.jpg|center|Logo]] | images=[[Image:Urban Community of Lyon map-blank.svg|250px|Map of the métropole]]
The city (commune) of Lyon (in red) and 57 suburban communes (in blue) make up the Grand Lyon. | rég=[[Rhône-Alpes]] | dépt=[[Rhône (département)|Rhône]] | création=January 1, 1969 | nbcomm=58 | siège=[[Lyon]] | prés=[[Gérard Collomb]] | party=[[Socialist Party (France)|PS]] | mandat=2001-present | pop=1,310,000
(37.3% in the city of [[Lyon]]) | datepop=[[2010]] | superf=527.15 | hectares= | dens=2,485 | budget=€ 1.6 billion (2009) | budgetsource=¹ | siteweb=[http://www.grandlyon.com www.grandlyon.com] | footnotes=¹ After compensatory transfer of local tax euros to the communes of the Urban Community. |}} The '''Urban Community of Lyon''' ([[French language|French]]: ''[[Communauté urbaine]] de Lyon''), also known as '''Grand Lyon''' (i.e. "Greater Lyon") or by its former [[acronym]] '''COURLY''', is the [[Communes in France#Intercommunality|intercommunal]] structure gathering the [[Commune in France|city]] of [[Lyon]] ([[France]]) and some of its suburbs. The Urban Community of Lyon encompasses only the core of the metropolitan area of Lyon. [[Commune in France|Communes]] further away from the centre of the metropolitan area have formed their own intercommunal structures, such as: * [[Syndicate of New Agglomeration of L'Isle-d'Abeau]] (''Syndicat d'agglomération nouvelle de l'Isle-d'Abeau''): 38,769 inhabitants * [[Community of Communes of the East of Lyon]] (''Communauté de communes de l'Est Lyonnais''): 27,706 inhabitants * [[Community of Communes of the Garon Valley]] (''Communauté de communes de la Vallée du Garon''): 27,515 inhabitants ==Communes included in the Urban Community==
The Urban Community originally comprised 55 communes. However, on 1 January 2007, two additional communes, [[Givors]] and [[Grigny, Rhône|Grigny]], joined, bringing the total up to 57. These two communes are detached from the rest of the Urban Community, as [[Millery, Rhône|Millery]] (the commune linking Grigny with Charly and Vernaison) and neighbouring villages refused to join the Urban Community. On 1 January 2011, [[Lissieu]], joined, bringing the total to 58. {| border="0" |----- valign="top" | width="220" | *[[Albigny-sur-Saône]] *[[Bron]] *[[Cailloux-sur-Fontaines]] *[[Caluire-et-Cuire]] *[[Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or]] *[[Charbonnières-les-Bains]] *[[Charly]] *[[Chassieu]] *[[Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or]] *[[Corbas]] *[[Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or]] *[[Craponne]] *[[Curis-au-Mont-d'Or]] *[[Dardilly]] *[[Décines-Charpieu]] *[[Écully]] *[[Feyzin]] *[[Fleurieu-sur-Saône]] *[[Fontaines-Saint-Martin]] | width="220" | *[[Fontaines-sur-Saône]] *[[Francheville, Rhône|Francheville]] *[[Genay, Rhône|Genay]] *[[Givors]] *[[Grigny, Rhône|Grigny]] *[[Irigny]] *[[Jonage]] *[[Limonest]] *[[Lissieu]] *[[Lyon]] *[[Marcy-l'Étoile]] *[[Meyzieu]] *[[Mions]] *[[Montanay]] *[[La Mulatière]] *[[Neuville-sur-Saône]] *[[Oullins]] *[[Pierre-Bénite]] *[[Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or]] *[[Rillieux-la-Pape]] | *[[Rochetaillée-sur-Saône]] *[[Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or]] *[[Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or]] *[[Saint-Fons]] *[[Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon]] *[[Saint-Genis-Laval]] *[[Saint-Genis-les-Ollières]] *[[Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or]] *[[Saint-Priest, Rhône|Saint-Priest]] *[[Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or]] *[[Sathonay-Camp]] *[[Sathonay-Village]] *[[Solaize]] *[[Tassin-la-Demi-Lune]] *[[La Tour-de-Salvagny]] *[[Vaulx-en-Velin]] *[[Vénissieux]] *[[Vernaison]] *[[Villeurbanne]] |----- | colspan="3" | |} ==External links== * [http://www.grandlyon.com/ Urban Community of Lyon website (in French)] * [http://www.business.greaterlyon.com/home.1.0.html?L=1 The Greater Lyon official business website (in English)] {{Rhône-geo-stub}} {{coord missing|France}} {{Portal|Lyon}}