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In France, an urban area (Fr: aire d'attraction d'une ville) is a zone encompassing an area of built-up growth (called an "urban unit" (unité urbaine) [36] – close in definition to the North American urban area) and its commuter belt . Americans would find the INSEE definition of the urban area [37] to be similar to their metropolitan area.
Urban geography. 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 ...
Urbanization. The urbanization of the United States occurred over a period of many years, with the nation only attaining urban-majority status between 1910 and 1920. [ 2] Currently, over four-fifths of the U.S. population resides in urban areas, a percentage which is still increasing today. [ 2] The United States Census Bureau changed its ...
Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It can also mean population growth in urban areas instead of rural ones. [ 1]
An urban area is defined by the Census Bureau as a contiguous set of census blocks that are "densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas". [ 1] Urban areas consist of a densely-settled urban core, plus surrounding developed areas that meet certain density criteria. Since urban areas are composed of census blocks ...
The functional urban area ( FUA ), previously known as larger urban zone ( LUZ ), [ 1] is a measure of the population and expanse of metropolitan and surrounding areas which may or may not be exclusively urban. [ 2] It consists of a city and its commuting zone, [ 3] which is a contiguous area of spatial units that have at least 15% of their ...
CBSAs are subdivided into MSAs (formed around urban areas of at least 50,000 in population) and micropolitan statistical areas (μSAs), which are CBSAs built around an urban area of at least 10,000 in population but less than 50,000 in population. Some metropolitan areas may include multiple cities below 50,000 people, but combined have over ...
For the first time, the Census Bureau is adding housing units to the definition of an urban area. A place can be considered urban if it has at least 2,000 housing units, based on the calculation ...