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  2. Suburbanization - Wikipedia

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    Suburbanization (American English), also spelled suburbanisation (British English), is a population shift from historic core cities or rural areas into suburbs. Most suburbs are built in a formation of (sub)urban sprawl . [ 1 ]

  3. Urbanization - Wikipedia

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    Urbanization over the past 500 years [13] A global map illustrating the first onset and spread of urban centres around the world, based on. [14]From the development of the earliest cities in Indus valley civilization, Mesopotamia and Egypt until the 18th century, an equilibrium existed between the vast majority of the population who were engaged in subsistence agriculture in a rural context ...

  4. Suburb - Wikipedia

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    A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city. [1] Suburbs can have their own political or legal jurisdictions, especially in the United States, but this is not always the case, especially in the United Kingdom, where most suburbs are located within the administrative boundaries of ...

  5. Counterurbanization - Wikipedia

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    Counterurbanization, Ruralization or deurbanization is a demographic and social process in which people move from urban areas to rural areas.It, as suburbanization, is inversely related to urbanization, and first occurs as a reaction to inner-city deprivation. [1]

  6. Urbanization by sovereign state - Wikipedia

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    There are two measures of the degree of urbanization of a population. The first, urban population, describes the percentage of the total population living in urban areas, as defined by the country.

  7. Shrinking city - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon of shrinking cities generally refers to a metropolitan area that experiences significant population loss in a short period of time. [1] The process is also known as counterurbanization, metropolitan deconcentration, and metropolitan turnaround. [2]

  8. Crabgrass Frontier - Wikipedia

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    Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States [1] is a book written by historian Kenneth T. Jackson and published in 1985. Extensively researched and referenced, the book takes into account factors that promoted the suburbanization of the United States, such as the availability of cheap land, construction methods, and transportation, as well as federal subsidies for highways and ...

  9. Conurbation - Wikipedia

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    Skyscrapers of Shinjuku, Japan, January 2009 . 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.