- (in population censuses) a city area considered as the inner city plus built-up environs, irrespective of local body administrative boundaries
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urban area n
'urban area' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
brownfield
- enterprise zone
- redevelopment area
- relief
- Rhondda
- sprawl
- town
- townhouse
- tunnel
- Victoria
- adventure playground
- asphalt jungle
- Bedlington
- beltway
- build
- cabbagetown
- conurbation
- Dalian
- ghetto blaster
- gridlock
- heat island
- homestead
- landscape architecture
- London
- Lüshun
- Malvern
- periphery
- rail rapid transit
- urb
- scattersite housing
- subcommunity
- supercity