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(geography) An extended city area comprising the built-up area of a central city and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.
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The main city of a metropolitan area; particularly one containing multiple cities.
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Containing, or covered with, cities.
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Synonym of central city (“the main city of a metropolitan area; particularly one containing multiple cities”).
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The breakup of a federation or alliance.
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A kind of postindustrial city.
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urban blight caused by negative environmental effects
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A city even larger in scale than a megacity.
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(derogatory) Time-consuming bureaucratic procedures or regulations relating to environmental concerns.
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An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
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The application of classical liberalism to urban policy.
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The inhabitant of a metropolis.
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(US statistical area) of a city, or twin cities having at least 10,000 but fewer than 50,000 inhabitants: less populated than metropolitan but more than rural.
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A city (especially in the former Soviet Union) in which most of the working population work in the same industry, typically for the same organisation.
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A town or city whose economy is dominated by a single industry or company.
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Rurban living generally; the combination of urban and rural characteristics in a place.
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A person who or animal that secretes (emits a bodily fluid).
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An extremely large city, metropolis or urban area.
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Synonym of urban planning
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An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible. (biblical character)
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(urban studies) Urban decay consisting of the deterioration of part of a town or city due to ageing, neglect, and lack of financial support for maintenance.
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(idiomatic, literary) The physical aspect of urbanism, emphasizing building types, thoroughfares, open space, frontages, and streetscapes but excluding environmental, functional, economic and sociocultural aspects.
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The construction of housing in a sporadic and unregulated manner in periurban, rural or country areas.
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The study of the urban development of cities.
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The quality or fact of (an area) being urban.
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The study of cities, their geographic, economic, political, social, and cultural environment.
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Synonym of urban studies
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A place that takes on the characteristics of cities.
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The branch of sociology that studies the problems of living in cities and towns.
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a name of an urban element (street, square etc.) in towns and cities.
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