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Urbanization. The urbanization of the United States occurred over a period of many years, with the nation only attaining urban-majority status between 1910 and 1920. [ 2] Currently, over four-fifths of the U.S. population resides in urban areas, a percentage which is still increasing today. [ 2] The United States Census Bureau changed its ...
Suburbanization ( AE ), or suburbanisation ( BE ), is a population shift from historic core cities or rural areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of (sub)urban sprawl. [ 1] As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses away from city centers, low-density, peripheral urban areas grow.
The Swedish suburbs of Husby, Kista, and Akalla are built according to the typical city planning of the Million Programme. A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city. [ 1 ]
In France, an urban area (Fr: aire d'attraction d'une ville) is a zone encompassing an area of built-up growth (called an "urban unit" (unité urbaine) [36] – close in definition to the North American urban area) and its commuter belt . Americans would find the INSEE definition of the urban area [37] to be similar to their metropolitan area.
A typical suburban development in the United States, located in Chandler, Arizona An urban development in Palma, Mallorca. Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment [1]) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city".
An exurb (or alternately: exurban area) is an area outside the typically denser inner suburban area, at the edge of a metropolitan area, which has some economic and commuting connection to the metro area, low housing density, and growth. It shapes an interface between urban and rural landscapes holding a limited urban nature for its functional ...
Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It can also mean population growth in urban areas instead of rural ones. [ 1]
In political science, the urban–rural political divide is a phenomenon in which predominantly urban areas and predominantly rural areas within a country have sharply diverging political views. It is a form of political polarization. Typically, urban areas exhibit more liberal, left-wing, cosmopolitan, and/or multiculturalist political ...