Look up: urban-area

1. urban area
   [n] - a geographical area constituting a city or town
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2. urban area
   populated area noun a geographical area constituting a city or town
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3. Urban Area
   Geographic area with a high density of people over a limited area. Homes and other types of buildings tend to be close together. Urban systems also tend to differentiate themselves spatially into particular types of human activities.
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4. Urban area
   An urban area is a group of municipalities, all adjoining and without enclaves, made up of an urban hub and rural municipalities or urban units (suburban rim), of which at least 40% of the resident working population works in the hub or in municipalities attracted by the hub.
   Found on http://www.insee.fr/en/methodes/default.
   
   
5. Urban area
   An `urban area` is characterized by higher population density and vast human features in comparison to areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlets. Urban areas are created and further ...
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6. Urban Employment Area
   is a definition of metropolitan areas, defined by the Center for Spatial Information Service, the University of Tokyo. It is different from the official definition of metropolitan areas defined by the Statistics Bureau, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. For the latter scheme, see ...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Emplo