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Area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together

Seat of government of a country or subnational division

Ethnic enclave of expatriate Chinese persons

Large permanent human settlement

Smallest area that is surrounded by streets

Commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart of a city

Commercial area

Activity area with essentially shops, restaurants and various services, reselling products to the public, and frequently grouped together within commercial galeries, malls or commercial centers

Urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out

Group of settlements linked by continuous urban area

Geographical spot with high concentration of certain ethnic groups

Urban socioeconomic process

Part of a city in which members of a minority group live

City which is important to the world economy

Small human settlement in a rural area

Human settlement

Community of any size, in which people live

Industrial park

Area for development of industry

Extensive urban agglomeration of multiple large cities to form something larger than a metropolis

Large city or conurbation

Metropolitan area

Administrative unit of a dense urban core and its satellite cities

Mixed-use development

Type of urban development strategy

Geographically localised community within a larger city, town or suburb

Population density

Measurement of population per unit area or unit volume

Place generally open and accessible to people

Residential area

Land use in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas

Geographic area outside towns and cities

Highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of decrepit housing units

Human settlement within a metropolitan area

Type of settlement

Open public spaces in cities or towns, usually rectilinear, surrounded by buildings

Transit-oriented development

Urban planning prioritising transit

Sociological process affecting cities

Designing and shaping of human settlements

Park in a city or other incorporated place

Technical and political process concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment

Land redevelopment in cities

Expansion of auto-oriented, low-density development in suburbs

Field within the social sciences

Process of population movement to cities

Human settlement smaller than a town

How accessible a space is to walking

A government policy allowing certain uses of land in different places