Urban Terminology

A place with a permanent human population

• Boomburb

• Megacity

• Settlement

• Suburb

Permanently inhabited portion of earth's surface

• Conurbation

• Ecumene

• Exurb

• Megaloplis

Rural areas

• Farms and villages, low concentrations of people

• Cities, high concentrations of popule

• Residential areas of cities

• Suburbs

A very rapidly growing suburban area that is approaching urban size but has a suburban lifestyle

• Boomburb

• Conurbation

• Exurb

• Metacity

A large urban area that has more than ten million people

• Ecumene

• Megacity

• Metacity

• World city

A city and the surrounding area that are influenced economically and culturally by the city

• Conurbation

• Edge city

• Megalopolis

• Metropolitan area

A typically fast-growing community outside of or on the edge of an urban area beyond the suburbs

• Exurb

• Megacity

• Metacity

• Settlement

The growth and development of cities

• Counterurbanization

• Globalization

• Territoriality

• Urbanization

A city with a population of more than 20 million

• Megacity

• Metacity

• Metropolitan area

• Suburb

The shifting of population away from cities into less densely populated residential and commercial areas surrounding cities

• Reurbanization

• Segregation

• Suburbanization

• Urbanization