Chapter 15 - Urban Settlements

The process of the development of dense concentrations of people into settlements.

• Urbanization

• Metropolitan area

• Urban Area

• City

A city and its surrounding suburbs.

• Megacity

• Metropolitan area

• Urban Area

• Metacity

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

• Urban

• Metropolitan area

• Urban Area

• Metacity

Actual place or location of the settlement and the land on which the city was built.

• Site

• Situation

• City

• Urban Sprawl

Connections between its site and other sites.

• Metropolitan area

• Situation

• City

• Urban Sprawl

Areas of poorly planned, low-density development surrounding a city

• Urban renewal

• Urban area

• Metropolitan Area

• Urban Sprawl

A typically fast-growing community of or on the edge of a metropolitan area where the residents and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs.

• Exurb

• Boomburb

• Edge City

• Infill

A suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100,000 residents.

• Exurb

• Boomburb

• Edge City

• Infill

A type of community located on the outskirts of a larger city with commercial centers with office space, retail complexes, and other amenities typical of an urban center.

• Exurb

• Boomburb

• Edge City

• Infill

Redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously build areas.

• Exurb

• Boomburb

• Edge City

• Infill