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81urban land-use — the spatial differences and similarities in certain types of land use in urban areas which allow tracking of the history of their development and thus can be useful for future planning …
82urban regeneration — the improvement of urban areas which have been in decline …
83urban — adjective crimes rates are significantly higher in urban areas Syn: town, city, municipal, civic, metropolitan, built up, inner city, downtown, suburban; urbanized, citified, townie Ant: rural …
84urban renewal — /ɜbən rəˈnjuəl/ (say erbuhn ruh nyoohuhl) noun the rehabilitation of urban areas, by regeneration, replacement, repair, or renovation, in accordance with comprehensive plans …
85Urban planning in communist countries — was subject to the ideological constraints of the system. Except for the Soviet Union where the communist regime started in 1917, in Eastern Europe communist governments took power after World War II. The ideological guidelines generated in… …
86Urban planning in Singapore — has formulated and guided its physical development from the day the modern city state was founded in 1819 as a British colony to the developed, independent country it is today. Urban planning is especially important due to land constraints and… …
87Urban development in Detroit — refers to a series of revitalizations, over many decades, aimed at enhancing the city s economy and quality of life. An early effort, in response to civil disturbance and racial unrest in the late 1960s, was the New Detroit committee, a group of… …
88Urban rail transit — is an all encompassing term for various types of local rail systems serving urban or older suburban areas. The vast majority of modern urban rail vehicles run on electricity. The set of urban rail systems can be roughly subdivided into four… …
89Urban prairie — is a term coined to characterize large swaths of vacant city lots, typically with grass planted on them. Urban prairie results from widespread building demolition, common in areas subject to extensive urban decay. These areas are not the same as… …
90Urban consolidation — refers to a diverse set of planning policies intended to make better use of existing urban infrastructure by encouraging development within existing urbanised areas (so called brownfield sites ) rather than on non urbanised land (aka greenfield… …
