In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great commissioned Dinocrates of Rhodes to lay out his new city of Alexandria, the grandest example of idealized urban planning of the ancient Mediterranean world, where the city's regularity was facilitated by its level site near a mouth of the Nile.

A district within Zone Ten, known as Zona Viva, contains many of the city's most popular and most expensive hotels, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and other entertainment venues for urban dwellers.

Kansas City has of spacious boulevards and parkways, 214 urban parks, 49 ornamental fountains, 152 ball diamonds, 10 community centers, 105 tennis courts, five golf courses, five museums and attractions, 30 pools, and 47 park shelters, all overseen by the city's Parks and Recreation department.

The eastern area of the North End plays host to the city's largest park, and one of Canada's largest urban parks.

Growing seasons in 70 cities in eastern North America were about 15 days longer in urban areas compared to rural areas outside of a city's influence.

A strong demand for new residential and commercial areas drove to extreme urban expansion and architectural renewal, that has produced some of the major milestones in the city's architectural history, including Gio Ponti's Pirelli Tower ( 1956 – 60 ), Velasca Tower ( 1956 – 58 ), and the creation of brand new residential satellite towns, as well as huge amounts of low quality public housings.

During the second half of the 19th century, due to its new status, the city's population increased dramatically, and a new period of urban development began.

The urban renewal process, which includes the reconstruction of the area around the Neumarkt square on which the Frauenkirche is situated, will continue for many decades, but public and government interest remains high, and there are numerous large projects underway — both historic reconstructions and modern plans — that will continue the city's recent architectural renaissance.

The Greek Hippodamus ( c. 407 BC ) has been dubbed the " Father of City Planning " for his design of Miletus ; Alexander commissioned him to lay out his new city of Alexandria, the grandest example of idealized urban planning of the ancient Mediterranean world, where the city's regularity was facilitated by its level site near a mouth of the Nile.

Made in Germany during the Weimar Period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia, and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city's ruler, and Maria, whose background is not fully explained in the film, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classist nature of their city.

At Kenora, the Trans-Canada designation includes both the main route through the city's urban core and the Highway 17A bypass route.

The municipality has a total of 31 barrios ( wards ), including 19 outside the city's urban area and 12 in the urban area of the city.

Prior to his tenure in office, the city's municipal administration was notably lax with regards to public works, and many urban dwellers lived in conditions of great poverty.

The Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe ( VBK ) operates the city's urban public transport network, comprising seven tram routes and a network of bus routes.

The city's remote location from urban areas can be responsible for the high poverty rate.

Despite the city's image of some urban professionals (" yuppies ") residing in homes now worth over $ 400, 000 ( i. e. the post-2000s May Ranch and Green Valley communities ), the older sections of Perris are home to working-class and low-income residents.

The city's northern urban growth boundary, Taylor Road, was reached in the late 1990s.

The city's street grid reflects two distinct urban planning styles.

The Great Depression exacerbated the economic slump, and as a result city leaders enthusiastically embraced the concept of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s, receiving considerable federal funds used to demolish much of the north side of Merrimack Street, most of the Federal homes along Water Street ( dating from the city's first hundred years of development ), and throughout downtown.

The northern portion of the township is adjacent to Traverse City and is part of that city's urban area.

Much of the remaining township is considered to be a part of the city's urban area.

The area is on Grand Traverse Bay just north of Traverse City and is a part of that city's urban area.

The city's urban area extends beyond the city limits into both of those townships as well as into nearby Raisin Township and Palmyra Township.

A half-dozen other stations in the New York area also bid for attention of the city's Negro population, up about 50 per cent in the past decade.

Ann Arbor was founded in 1824, with one theory stating that it is named after the spouses of the city's founders and for the stands of trees in the area.

The city's economy is also centered on high technology, with several companies drawn to the area by the university's research and development money, and by its graduates.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

More than half of the workers in Aarau live in the city's suburbs, or farther away in the surrounding area.

Around one third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.

Berlin's built-up area creates a microclimate, with heat stored by the city's buildings.

West of Broadway as far as Canal Street was the city's fashionable residential area until circa 1825 ; landfill has more than tripled the area and the Hudson shore now lies far to the west, beyond TriBeCa and Battery Park City.

According to the United States Census Bureau the city's area includes of land and ( 40. 83 %) water, most of it part of San Francisco Bay.

The name of the city in Irish is Doire Colmcille and is derived from the native oak trees in the area and the city's association with Columba.

The lowest points are along the lake shore at, while the highest point, at, is a landfill located in the Hegewisch community area on the city's far south side.

The South Side is the largest section of the city, encompassing roughly 60 % of the city's land area.

As a Polonia center, due to the city's having a very large Polish population, Chicago celebrates every Labor Day weekend at the Taste of Polonia Festival in the Jefferson Park area.

About a third of the city's population works in industrial workplaces ( chemical plants near the Dead Sea like the Dead Sea Works, high-tech companies and textile shops ), and another third in the area of services.

The Edo Bridge ( 江戸橋, Edo-bashi ) marked the center of the city's commercial center, an area also known as Kuramae ( 蔵前, " in front of the storehouses ").

In 1983 DIF I started to integrate the territory of the new city of Maracanaú, which, just some years ago, was made again part of the Greater Fortaleza ( the city's Metropolitan area ).

The city's metro area has recently grown very rapidly and has absorbed most of the neighboring municipalities of Villa Nueva, San Miguel Petapa, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San José Pinula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Fraijanes, San Pedro Ayampuc, Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia and Chinautla forming what is now known as the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area.

During these first few years Hellas was one of three or four area teams playing mainly at a municipal level while fighting against city rivals Bentegodi to become the city's premier football outfit.

The city's global architectural flavors had a profound influence on Pei, from the Bund waterfront area to the Park Hotel, built in 1934.

The city's total area nearly doubled between 2003 and 2005 as a result of five towns — the towns of Kōriyama and Matsumoto, both from Hioki District, the town of Kiire, from Ibusuki District, and the towns of Sakurajima and Yoshida, both from Kagoshima District — merging into Kagoshima on November 1, 2004.

Though it is the largest area of the city by both physical size and population, it has often been regarded by Southside citizens as Lansing's most overlooked and forgotten area, as most of Lansing's attention in recent decades has been put into the revitalization of the city's historic core located mostly on small parts of both the East and Westsides.

A native of the Rhône département's Urban Community of Lyon, France's second largest metropolitan area, Marcel-Auguste Ferréol was born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, one of the city's suburbs, and adopted his nom de plume at the start of his writing career in the early 1920s.

Tureaud, with his four sisters and seven brothers, grew up in a three-room apartment in one of the city's housing projects, the Robert Taylor Homes, in a poorly constructed building, in an area with high levels of environmental pollutants and the largest concentration of poverty in America.