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According to the definition by the Office for National Statistics, "Built-up areas are defined as land which is 'irreversibly urban in character', meaning that they are characteristic of a town or city. They include areas of built-up land with a minimum of 20 hectares (200,000 m 2; 49 acres). Any areas [separated by] less than 200 metres [of ...
In France, an urban unit (French: unité urbaine) is a statistical area defined by INSEE, the French national statistics office, for the measurement of contiguously built-up areas. According to the INSEE definition , an "unité urbaine" is a commune alone or a grouping of communes which: a) form a single unbroken spread of urban development ...
Very densely built-up areas require high capacity urban transit, and urban planners must consider these factors in long-term plans (Canary Wharf tube station) Although an important factor, there is a complex relationship between urban densities and car use Wilton Road, Pimlico, London showing two-way traffic on a single roadway
Land consumption as part of human resource consumption is the conversion of land with healthy soil and intact habitats into areas for industrial agriculture, traffic (road building) and especially urban human settlements. More formally, the EEA [1] has identified three land consuming activities: The expansion of built-up area which can be ...
After 25 years as a parking lot, construction began on 414 Light Street in 2014. Designed by Chicago architecture firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz , the building has a contemporary style. The project is notable for being Baltimore's tallest apartment building, and third tallest skyscraper after the 1929 Bank of America Building . [ 5 ]
This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country. Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part in advance on a drawing board, or which were planned to a degree which is unusual for their time and place.
A Maryland father has enraged his neighbors by building a half-mile go-kart track for his motorsports-loving son on their 11-acre property. Charles Siperko, CEO of KCS Roofing in Columbia, Md ...
greenfield developments, i.e., new construction on previously undeveloped land, particularly at the edge of metropolitan areas and in their exurbs, often as part of creating a relatively denser center for the community—an edge city, or part of one, zoned for mixed use, in the 2010s often labeled "urban villages" (examples include Avalon in ...