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Barrio (Spanish pronunciation:) is a Spanish word that means "quarter" or "neighborhood".In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city delimited by functional (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), social, architectural or morphological features. [1]
Entrevías is a neighbourhood of Madrid belonging to the district of Puente de Vallecas.As of 2019 it was the poorest neighborhood in the municipality. [1]According to the National Institute of Statistics, the population of Entrevías in 2006 was 37,790.
Vecindad (Spanish, 'neighborhood'; concept of householder, citizenship) is a deeply-rooted Hispanic concept with various meanings, depending on historical or geographical context. In Mexico, it is often used to refer to multifamily apartment dwellings converted from aristocratic residences, or designed in similar fashion.
Following the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Los Angeles, the term barrio took on new meaning. As early as 1872, Spanish-speaking editors were writing the problems of the barrio which the Anglos referred to as Sonoratown. The community was exploited for their labor and was a center for poverty, crime, and illness in the city, yet ...
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).
Ybor City (/ ˈ iː b ɔːr / EE-bor) [2] is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States.It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy.
The Spanish word colonia means a 'colony' or 'community'. In Mexican Spanish , it is specifically a 'residential quarter [of a city]', and a colonia proletaria is a shantytown . [ 8 ] In Spanglish , the English-Spanish mix, colonia began to be used to refer primarily to Mexican neighborhoods about thirty years ago.
In Mexican urban geography, colonias (Spanish pronunciation:) are neighborhoods. [1]The name of the colonia must be specified when writing a postal address in Mexican cities.