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  2. Suburb - Wikipedia

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    The terms inner suburb and outer suburb are used to differentiate between the higher-density areas in proximity to the city center (which would not be referred to as 'suburbs' in most other countries), and the lower-density suburbs on the outskirts of the urban area. The term 'middle suburbs' is also used.

  3. Suburbanization - Wikipedia

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    Suburbanization. A suburban land use pattern in the United States (Colorado Springs, Colorado), showing a mix of residential streets and cul-de-sacs intersected by a four-lane road. Suburbanization (American English), also spelled suburbanisation (British English), is a population shift from historic core cities or rural areas into suburbs.

  4. Glossary of geography terms (N–Z) - Wikipedia

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    N. nadir. narrows. Also narrow. A land or water passage that is confined or restricted by its narrow breadth, often a strait or a water gap. nation. A stable community of people formed on the basis of a common geographic territory, language, economy, ethnicity, or psychological make-up as manifested in a common culture. national mapping agency.

  5. Urban geography - Wikipedia

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    Urban geography is the subdiscipline of geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes. Urban geographers and urbanists [1] examine various aspects of urban life and the built environment. Scholars, activists, and the public have participated in, studied, and critiqued flows of economic and natural resources, human and non ...

  6. Metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    Metropolitan areas in the United States are delineated around the core of a core based statistical area which is defined as an urban area, (this is different than the urban core) and consists of central and outlying counties, as the terms central city and suburb are no longer used by the census bureau due to suburbanization of employment.

  7. This geographic shift may decide Tuesday’s elections - AOL

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    The largest urban and suburban areas will likely determine whether Democrats can defy political gravity once again this year in Tuesday’s key elections, from Kentucky and Ohio to Virginia and ...

  8. Middle America (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Middle America is a colloquial term for the United States heartland, especially the culturally suburban areas of the United States, typically the Lower Midwestern region of the country, which consists of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and downstate Illinois. Middle America is generally used as both a geographic and cultural ...

  9. Inner suburb - Wikipedia

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    An inner suburb is a suburban community central to a large city, or at the inner city and central business district. [clarification needed] The urban density is usually lower than the inner city or central business district, but higher than that of the city's rural–urban fringe, or exurbs. [1]