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  2. Monowi, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    Monowi (/ ˈ m ɒ n oʊ w aɪ / MON-oh-wye) is an incorporated village in Boyd County, Nebraska, United States.It garnered national and international [4] recognition after the 2010 United States census counted only one resident of the village, Elsie Eiler. [5]

  3. Human settlement - Wikipedia

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    In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, a settlement is "a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work". [1] The Global Human Settlement Layer framework produces global spatial information about the human presence on the planet over time. This in the form of built up maps, population density maps ...

  4. Human migration - Wikipedia

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    Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, [1] with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is the dominant form of human migration globally.

  5. Monowi, with a population of one, is the smallest town ... - AOL

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    Eiler is also the town’s only taxpayer, and keeping the water running and the three street lamps lit costs her about $500 a year. Monowi has always been a small town, but decades ago it did have ...

  6. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    In Europe, centuries-old settlements were surrounded by farmland and tended not to be wider than 30 minutes' walk from one end to the other, with wealthier people monopolising the "town centre", and poorer people living on the town's outskirts or nearby countryside (the "sphere of influence").

  7. City - Wikipedia

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    Cities are also one of the most vulnerable parts of the human society to the effects of climate change, [203] and likely one of the most important solutions for reducing the environmental impact of humans. [204] [202] [203] The UN projects that 68% of the world population will live in urban areas by 2050. [205]

  8. History of cities - Wikipedia

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    Today the world's population is slightly over half urban, [47] and continues to urbanize, with roughly a million people moving into cities every 24 hours worldwide. During the 20th century, car ownership has increased steadily, parallel with suburban sprawl , highways and other development for the car.

  9. Village - Wikipedia

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    In many cultures, towns and cities were few, with only a small proportion of the population living in them. The Industrial Revolution attracted people in larger numbers to work in mills and factories; the concentration of people caused many villages to grow into towns and cities. This also enabled specialization of labor and crafts and the ...