Look up: conurbation

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   Conurbation
   A clustering of towns or cities into an unbroken urban environment.
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   conurbation
   [n] - an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
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   conurbation
   The complex or system of a town,its components,urban extensions,with suburbs,shopping centre,station,church,club,green spaces,etc. Category: Management in the public and private sector • a term coined by Patrick Geddes to describe the continuously built-up area formed by the coalescence of several,originally separate,expanding settlements Category: Building industry
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   conurbation
   urban sprawl noun an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
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   Conurbation
   A `conurbation` is an urban area comprising a number of cities, large towns and larger urban areas that, through population growth and expansion, have physically merged to form one continuous built up area. It is thus a polycentric form of agglomeration. A conurbation is easily confused with a metropolitan area. A metropolitan area actually consists of many neighborhoods, while a conurbation consists of many different metropolitan areas that ar...
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   conurbation
   (from the article `United Kingdom`) ...in offices and service industries ensures continued urban growth. Of every 10 people in the United Kingdom, nine live in towns and more than three ... The unprecedented outward sprawl of American urban settlement has created some novel settlement forms, for the quantitative change has been so great...
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   conurbation
   conurbation 1. The gradual fusion or combination of urban areas together into what some city planners call one vast megalopolis. 2. A predominantly urban region which includes adjacent towns and suburbs; a metropolitan area. 3. A large urban area created when neighboring towns spread into and merge with each other.
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