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  2. Historical urban community sizes - Wikipedia

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    This article lists historical urban community sizes based on the estimated populations of selected human settlements from 7000 BC – AD 1875, organized by archaeological periods.

  3. Chicago Portage National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage [2] in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located in Chicago Portage Forest Preserve and the Ottawa Trail Woods Forest Preserve, at the junction of Portage Creek with the Des Plaines River , on the west side ...

  4. Villa District - Wikipedia

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    The Villa district was the northwest "bookend" for Chicago's vaunted Polish Corridor along Milwaukee Avenue that extended from Division and Ashland Avenue at Polonia Triangle. Journalist Mike Royko famously dubbed the area as the Polish Kenilworth after the posh suburb of Chicago's North Shore .

  5. Architecture of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    [8] in addition to a different sculpture commemorating the artist in Chopin Park. In the 21st century, Chicago has become an urban focus for landscape architecture and the architecture of public places. 19th-20th century Chicago architects included Burnham, Frederick Olmsted, Jens Jensen and Alfred Caldwell, modern projects include Millennium ...

  6. Urban archaeology - Wikipedia

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    W. F. Grimes: Archaeologist who spent extensive time studying London and Roman archaeology, specifically dating back to Medieval times. He also wrote a book, which described his findings about London and Rome. [9] Martin Biddle: He is a British archaeologist and professor who was the first lecturer in Medieval archaeology in England. He is ...

  7. Chicago park and boulevard system - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District, which encompasses most of the Boulevard System, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. [14] The approved listing, stretches approximately 26 miles, including 8 parks, 19 boulevards, and 6 squares, as well as adjacent properties that preserve structures built from the 19th century to the 1940s.

  8. Social distance - Wikipedia

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    Normative social distance: A second approach views social distance as a normative category. Normative social distance refers to the widely accepted and often consciously expressed norms about who should be considered as an "insider" and who an "outsider/foreigner". Such norms, in other words, specify the distinctions between "us" and "them".

  9. Social distancing - Wikipedia

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    In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing, [2] [3] [4] is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other.