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  2. NIMBY - Wikipedia

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    Unfinished tower in Tenleytown, Washington, D.C. that was later removed as a result of complaints from the neighborhood. NIMBY (/ ˈ n ɪ m b i /, or nimby), [1] an acronym for the phrase "not in my back yard", [2] [3] is a characterization of opposition by residents to proposed real estate development and infrastructure developments in their local area, as well as support for strict land use ...

  3. Counterurbanization - Wikipedia

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    Counterurbanization is the process by which people migrate from urban to rural communities, the opposite of urbanization. People have moved from urban to rural communities for various reasons, including job opportunities and simpler lifestyles. In recent years, due to technology, the urbanization process has been occurring in reverse.

  4. Neighbourhood - Wikipedia

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    Neighbourhood sociology is a subfield of urban sociology which studies local communities [9] [10] Neighbourhoods are also used in research studies from postal codes and health disparities, to correlations with school drop out rates or use of drugs. [11]

  5. Urban area - Wikipedia

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    For the Census of India 2011, the definition of urban area is a place having a minimum population of 5,000 of density 400 persons per square kilometre (1,000/sq mi) or higher, and 75% plus of the male working population employed in non-agricultural activities. Places administered by a municipal corporation, cantonment board or notified town ...

  6. Hamlet (place) - Wikipedia

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    Obviously, this is the opposite of a hamlet - a place without either for being too small to meaningfully support those. Even without state pressure, once one of the neighboring khutor s got a permanent shop, school, community center (known in Russia as дом культуры, "house of culture"), maybe a medical post, others would naturally ...

  7. Neighbourhood (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A neighbourhood (also spelled neighborhood) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area.

  8. Manifold - Wikipedia

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    Here s is the slope of the line through the point at coordinates (x, y) and the fixed pivot point (−1, 0); similarly, t is the opposite of the slope of the line through the points at coordinates (x, y) and (+1, 0).

  9. Urban density - Wikipedia

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    Urban density is a concept used in urban planning, urban studies, and related fields to describe the intensity of people, jobs, housing units, total floor area of buildings, or some other measure of human occupation, activity, and development across a defined unit of area.