"Urban Areas" Definition, Facts, Information, Etc.

By definition, the term "Urban Areas" is a geographical area constituting a city or town. The term stems from the definition of "urban" which is relating to, or located in a city.

Wikipedia defines an Urban Areas as, "characterized by higher population density and vast human features in comparison to areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlets."

"Unlike an urban area, a metropolitan area includes not only the urban area, but also satellite cities plus intervening rural land that is socio-economically connected to the urban core city, typically by employment ties through commuting, with the urban core city being the primary labor market. In fact, urbanized areas agglomerate and grow as the core population/economic activity center within a larger metropolitan area or envelope.

Metropolitan areas tend to be defined using counties or county sized political units as building blocks. Counties tend to be stable political boundaries; economists prefer to work with economic and social statistics based on metropolitan areas. Urbanized areas are a more relevant statistic for determining per capita land usage and densities"

UrbanAreas.net was founded to assist people in the urban areas of New York City by providing them with available resources and tools that they can use to improve their life and/or the lives of others in a simple, easy to use, yet fun manner.


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