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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
The list in this article includes urban areas with a population of at least 50,000, but urban areas may have as few as 5,000 residents or 2,000 housing units. Some cities may also be a part of two or more urban areas, as is the case for Huntsville , and the smaller Huntsville Southeast.
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.
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.
This is a list of urban areas in the California as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2010 estimated Census populations.In the table, UA refers to "urbanized area" (urban areas with population over 50,000) and UC refers to "urban cluster" (urban areas with population less than 50,000).
The megaregions of the United States are eleven regions of the United States that contain two or more roughly adjacent urban metropolitan areas that, through commonality of systems, including transportation, economies, resources, and ecologies, experience blurred boundaries between the urban centers, perceive and act as if they are a continuous urban 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
The aire urbaine is built from France's nationwide interlocking administrative commune municipalities: when a commune has over 2000 inhabitants and contains a centre of dense construction (buildings spaced no more than 200 metres apart), it is combined with other adjoining communes fulfilling the same criteria to become a single unité urbaine ("urban unit" [4]); if an urban unit offers over ...