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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 ...
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] As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses away from city centers, low-density, peripheral urban areas ...
Greater Tokyo in Japan, the world's most populated urban area, with about 40 million inhabitants as of 2022 A satellite view of the U.S. Northeast megalopolis at night, the world's most economically productive megalopolis [1] with over 50 million residents, centered on New York City Greater São Paulo at night, as seen from the International Space Station Aerial view of Greater Adelaide, the ...
U.S. suburbs really began to take off in the early 1950s -- right around the time when credit cards were mass distributed, allowing homeowners to get bigger places and buy things like televisions,...
Mumbai Suburban district (Marathi: Mumbai Upanagar Jilhā) is the second most populous district of Maharashtra in the Konkan Division. With its administrative headquarters in Bandra , the district consists of three subdivisions or tehsils (townships): Kurla , Andheri , and Borivali . [ 2 ]
In most urban areas of China, neighbourhood, community, residential community, residential unit, residential quarter have the same meaning: 社区 or 小区 or 居民区 or 居住区, and is the direct sublevel of a subdistrict (街道办事处), which is the direct sublevel of a district (区), which is the direct sublevel of a city (市).
The population residing in urban areas in India, according to the 1901 census, was 11.4%, [1] increasing to 28.53% by the 2001 census, and is now currently 34% in 2017 according to the World Bank. [2] According to a survey by the United Nations, in 2030 40.76% of country's population is expected to reside in urban areas. [3]
Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January . A conurbation is a region comprising 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.