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Urban cluster may refer to: Urban cluster (UC) in the US census. See List of United States urban areas; Urban cluster (France), a statistical area defined by France's national statistics office; City cluster, mainly in Chinese English, synonymous with megalopolis
In France, an urban area (Fr: aire d'attraction d'une ville) is a zone encompassing an area of built-up growth (called an "urban unit" (unité urbaine) [41] – close in definition to the North American urban area) and its commuter belt . Americans would find the INSEE definition of the urban area [42] to be similar to their metropolitan area.
Urban agglomeration, in standard English; Megalopolis, in Chinese English, as defined in China's Standard for basic terminology of urban planning (GB/T 50280—98). Also known as "city cluster". Economies of agglomeration, an economic principle regarding geographic concentration of industries; A subcategory of Flocculation
An urban cluster was defined as having at least 2,500 people, a threshold that had been around since 1910. Under this definition, 81% of the U.S. was urban and 19% was rural over the past decade.
A satellite image of the Pearl River Delta area in China. A megalopolis (/ ˌ m ɛ ɡ ə ˈ l ɒ p ə l ɪ s /) or a supercity, [1] also called a megaregion, [2] is a group of metropolitan areas which are perceived as a continuous urban area through common systems of transport, economy, resources, ecology, and so on. [2]
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 ...
Urban cluster (disambiguation) Urban forest inequity, inequitable distribution of trees, with their associated benefits, across metropolitan areas; Urban forestry, land use management system in which trees or shrubs are cared or protected for well-being; Urban reforestation, planting of trees in urban environments; All pages with titles ...
The official translation of this statistical area in English (as used by INSEE) is "functional area". [36] The AAV follows the same definition as the Functional Urban Area (FUA) used by Eurostat and the OECD, and the AAVs are thus strictly comparable to the FUAs. [36] The AAV replaced in 2020 the metropolitan statistical area called aire ...