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  2. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    A settlement hierarchy is a way of arranging settlements into a hierarchy based upon their size. The term is used by landscape historians and in the National Curriculum [ 1 ] for England . The term is also used in the planning system for the UK and for some other countries such as Ireland, India, and Switzerland.

  3. Conurbation - Wikipedia

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    A conurbation is a region consisting of a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most cases, a conurbation is a polycentric urbanised area in which transportation has developed to link ...

  4. Ekistics - Wikipedia

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    Ekistics is the science of human settlements [1] [2] including regional, city, community planning and dwelling design. Its major incentive was the emergence of increasingly large and complex conurbations, tending even to a worldwide city. [3]

  5. List of densest neighborhoods - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the densest neighborhoods (sometimes also known as, urban subdivisions or urban districts) with over 30,000 inhabitants per square kilometre (78,000/sq mi) in the world with an area of at least 1 km 2.

  6. Human settlement - Wikipedia

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    A settlement hierarchy can be used for classifying settlement all over the world, although a settlement called a "town" in one country might be a "village" in other countries; or a "large town" in some countries might be a "city" in others.

  7. Theories of urban planning - Wikipedia

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    He saw cities as being changed by technology into more regional settlements, for which he coined the term conurbation. [27] Similar to the garden city movement, he also believed in adding green areas to these urban regions. [ 27 ]

  8. Central place theory - Wikipedia

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    This generates a hierarchy of central places which results in the most efficient transport network. There are maximum central places possible located on the main transport routes connecting the higher order center. The transportation principle involves the minimization of the length of roads connecting central places at all hierarchy levels.

  9. Megacity - Wikipedia

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    Since, presently, urban data are based on arbitrary definitions that vary from country to country and from year or census to the next, making them difficult to compare, an Urban Metric System (UMS) has been conceived that could correct the problem, [12] since it allows computing the urban area limits and central points, and it can be applied in the same way to all past, present and future ...