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  2. Urban area - Wikipedia

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    Since urban areas are composed of census blocks and not cities, counties, or county-equivalents, urban area boundaries may consist of partial areas of these political units. Urban areas are distinguished from rural areas: any area not part of an urban area is considered to be rural by the Census Bureau. [68]

  3. List of United States urban areas - Wikipedia

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    Urban areas are distinguished from rural areas: any area not part of an urban area is considered to be rural by the Census Bureau. 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 ...

  4. Urbanization in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Maine's highest urban percentage ever was less than 52% (in 1950), and today less than 39% of the state's population resides in urban areas. Vermont is currently the least urban U.S. state; its urban percentage (35.1%) is less than half of the United States average (81%). [2] Maine and Vermont were less urban than the United States average in ...

  5. List of examples of New Urbanism - Wikipedia

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    Kansas City Area of King James. Crescent Creek Homes, Raytown; New Longview Lake, Lee's Summit Northgate Village, North Kansas City; River Market, Kansas City; The New Town at Liberty, Liberty

  6. Urban geography - Wikipedia

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    The environment of urban areas is developed through the concept of urbanization. Urbanization is the transition from rural town-structured communities to urban city-structured communities. This transition is because humans are pulled to cities because of jobs and even welfare. In cities, problems will arise such as environmental degradation ...

  7. Urban village - Wikipedia

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    In urban planning and design, an urban village is an urban development typically characterized by medium-density housing, mixed use zoning, good public transit and an emphasis on pedestrianization and public space. [1] Contemporary urban village ideas are closely related to New Urbanism and smart growth ideas initiated in the United States. [2]

  8. Urban sociology - Wikipedia

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    Community saved: A critical response to the community lost theory that developed during the 1960s, the community saved argument suggests that multistranded ties often emerge in sparsely-knit communities as time goes on, and that urban communities often possess these strong ties, albeit in different forms. Especially among low-income communities ...

  9. Communauté urbaine - Wikipedia

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    Communauté urbaine (French pronunciation: [kɔmynote yʁbɛn] ⓘ; French for "urban community") is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the Metropolis (French: métropole). A communauté urbaine is composed of a city and its independent suburbs (independent communes).