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Road Space Requirements. The compact city or city of short distances is an urban planning and urban design concept, which promotes relatively high residential density with mixed land uses. It is based on an efficient public transport system and has an urban layout which – according to its advocates – encourages walking and cycling, low ...
A city is a human settlement of a notable size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. [ 1][ 2] In a more narrow sense, a city can be defined ...
An underground power line provides electrical power with underground cables. Compared to overhead power lines, underground lines have lower risk of starting a wildfire and reduce the risk of the electrical supply being interrupted by outages during high winds, thunderstorms or heavy snow or ice storms. An added benefit of undergrounding is the ...
Linear settlement. A linear settlement is a (normally small to medium-sized) settlement or group of buildings that is formed in a long line. [ 1] Many of these settlements are formed along a transport route, such as a road, river, or canal. Others form due to physical restrictions, such as coastlines, mountains, hills or valleys.
A primate city[ 1] is a city that is the largest in its country, province, state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy. [ 2] A primate city distribution is a rank-size distribution that has one very large city with many much smaller cities and towns and no intermediate-sized urban centers, creating a ...
One of the major subfields of urban economics, economies of agglomeration (or agglomeration effects), explain, in broad terms, how urban agglomeration occurs in locations where cost savings can naturally arise. [ 1] This term is most often discussed in terms of economic firm productivity. However, agglomeration effects also explain some social ...
In his book City Economics, Brendan O'Flaherty asserts "Cities could persist—as they have for thousands of years—only if their advantages offset the disadvantages". [7] O'Flaherty illustrates two similar attracting advantages known as increasing returns to scale and economies of scale, which are concepts usually associated with businesses ...
Charter city. In the United States, a charter city is a city in which the governing system is defined by the city's own charter document rather than solely by general law. In states where city charters are allowed by law, a city can adopt or modify its organizing charter by decision of its administration by the way established in the charter.