This became Abercarn urban district in 1894, governed by an urban district council of twelve members.

Under the Local Government Act 1972 the urban district was abolished in 1974, becoming part of the borough of Islwyn, Gwent.

The former urban district corresponds to the three communities of Abercarn, Crumlin and Newbridge.

In 1894 Abersychan became an urban district and civil parish.

The urban district was abolished in 1935, with most of its area passing to Pontypool urban district, and a small area going to Abercarn UD.

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.

How Gerrymandering can influence electoral results on a Voting system # Nonproportional and semiproportional methods | non-proportional system. Example for a state with 3 equally sized districts, 15 voters and 2 parties: Plum ( squares ) and Orange ( circles ). In ( a ), creating 3 mixed-type districts yields a 3 – 0 win to Plum — a disproportional result considering the state-wide 9: 6 Plum majority. In ( b ), Orange wins the urban district while Plum wins the rural districts — the 2-1 result reflects the state-wide vote ratio. In ( c ), gerrymandering techniques ensure a 2-1 win to the state-wide minority Orange party.

On 1 January 1874 Liegnitz became the third city in Lower Silesia ( after Breslau and Görlitz ) to be raised to an urban district, although the district administrator of the surrounding Landkreis Liegnitz continued to have his seat in the city.

A new university college ( Swedish: högskola ), Malmö University College, was opened in 1998 on Kockums ' former dockside and further redevelopment of the now disused south-western harbor followed ; a city architecture exposition ( Bo01 ) was held in the area in 2001 and its buildings and villas forms the core of a new city district, aimed at the urban middle-class and with attractive waterfront vistas.

* In New Zealand, a municipality is part of either a " city " ( mostly urban ) or a " district " ( mostly rural ).

According to the United States scholar Nicholas Eberstadt and demographer Judith Banister, vital statistics and personal information on residents are kept by agencies on the ri, or ni (,: village, the local administrative unit ) level in rural areas and the dong (,: district or block ) level in urban areas.

The largest concentrations of population are in North P ' yŏngan and South P ' yŏngan provinces, in the municipal district of P ' yongyang, and in South Hamgyŏng Province, which includes the Hamhŭng-Hŭngnam urban area.

The majority of smaller or urban roads are managed by city or district councils, although some are fall under the control of other authorities, such as the New Zealand Department of Conservation or port and airport authorities.

Radio Row is a nickname for an urban street or district specializing in the sale of radio and electronic equipment and parts.

Even though every district has its own urban core, the real city center is between Bund to the east, Nanjing Rd to the north, Old City Temple and Huaihai Road to the south.

In addition there are three urban districts (), which also have district status:

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan also intended to construct his capitol at Agra as an urban center that would rival both Istanbul and Isfahan in all its wealth and cultural lifestyle. He even bestowed the title or surname " Chaudhury " to the family of Dutta Chaudhury, the very ancient Zamindar of Andul, which is situated in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The City of Dublin is the area administered by Dublin City Council, but the term " Dublin " normally refers to the contiguous urban area which includes parts of the adjacent local authority areas of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin.

However, the United States Forest Service estimates a net loss of about 2 million hectares ( 4, 942, 000 acres ) between 1997 and 2020 ; this estimate includes conversion of forest land to other uses, including urban and suburban development, as well as afforestation and natural reversion of abandoned crop and pasture land to forest.

This includes even activities that predate computer hacking, for example reality hackers or urban spelunkers ( exploring undocumented or unauthorized areas in buildings ).

The urban area of the city, although most of it contained within the Larissa municipality, also includes the communities of Giannouli, Platykampos, Nikaia, Terpsithea and several other suburban settlements, which bring the wider urban area population of the city to about 220, 000 inhabitants.

Significant fluxes of heat, matter, or momentum on time scales of less than a day are advected by turbulent motions .< ref > Garratt, J. R., < u > The atmospheric boundary layer </ u >, Cambridge University Press, 1992 ; ISBN 0-521-38052-9 .</ ref > Boundary layer meteorology includes the study of all types of surface – atmosphere boundary, including ocean, lake, urban land and non-urban land for the study of meteorology.

The east side of the peninsula is a heavily densely populated and a largely urban area that includes portions of Silicon Valley.

Another aspect of urban exploration is the practice of exploring active or in use buildings which includes gaining access to secured or " member-only " areas, mechanical rooms, roofs, elevator rooms, abandoned floors and other normally unseen parts of working buildings.

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.

Such a tactic includes adopting redevelopment strategies and zoning policies that channel housing and job growth into urban centers and neighborhood business districts, to create compact, walkable, and bike-and transit-friendly hubs.

If the area affected by the boundary includes multiple jurisdictions a special urban planning agency may be created by the state or regional government to manage the boundary.

The northern and western portions of the county are forested, while the remainder of the county includes urban areas, agricultural lands, and floodplains.

The population of this urban agglomeration includes areas such as Yokohama and Kawasaki, and is estimated to be between 35 and 36 million.

The region contains the urban centres of Tyneside, Wearside and Teesside, and is noted for the rich natural beauty of its coastline, Northumberland National Park, and the section of the Pennines that includes Teesdale and Weardale.

This includes both the urban Drogheda area and surrounding rural areas.

This “ island ” includes both settlements in growing industrial urban communities like the Quincy, Calumet & Hecla and Champion mining

Ashgabat's urban transport network includes the Ashgabat trolleybus system.

Viet Nam ’ s road system includes: national roads administered by the central level ; provincial roads managed by the provincial level, district roads managed by the district level, urban roads managed by cities and towns: and commune roads managed by the commune level.

The plan includes urban forestry, infill development, and façade renovation to encourage business and residential growth.

The urban area, which includes the village of Warnsveld, has about 51, 000 inhabitants.

As of 2011, the city has a population of 22, 256, and the urban area, which includes Escaldes-Engordany plus satellite villages, has over 40, 000 inhabitants.

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

Each includes a number of towns and villages outside the urban area from which the district takes its name.

It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.

Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should be made.

This quality is found in the most loved traditional and historic buildings and urban spaces, and is precisely what Alexander has tried to capture with his sophisticated mathematical design theories.

Immediately west from Ghana ( in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso ), Hausa is abruptly replaced by Dioula – Bambara as the main lingua-franca of what become predominantly Manding areas, and native Hausa populations plummet to a very small urban minority.

A widely disseminated urban legend tells of a radio conversation between a U. S. or British naval vessel and what is believed to be another ship on a collision course.

Though practices differ by region and format, what follows is a typical arrangement in a North American urban commercial radio station.

It is not entirely clear, however, what standards are used to define urban populations.

Within Modernism, urban planning represented a 20th century move towards establishing something stable, structured, and rationalised within what had become a world of chaos, flux and change ( Irving 1993, 475 ).

Sergius contributed to urban redevelopment in Rome, relying on what some consider to be dubious means of gaining money.

The RAF described itself as a communist and anti-imperialist " urban guerrilla " group engaged in armed resistance against what they deemed to be a fascist state.

In pre-Islamic Arabia, apart from a small number of urban trading settlements, such as Mecca and Medina, located in the Hejaz in the west of the peninsula, most of what was to become Saudi Arabia was populated by nomadic tribal societies or uninhabitable desert.

The earliest term by which these narratives were known, “ urban belief tales ,” highlights what was then thought to be a key property: they were held, by their tellers, to be true accounts, and the device of the FOAF was a spurious but significant effort at authentication.

The villas designed by Corbusier in the early part of the 1920s demonstrated what he termed the " precision " of architecture, where each feature of the design needed to be justified in design and urban terms.

* August 22 – Twenty-three Jewish refugees from Brazil settle in New Amsterdam, forming the nucleus of what will be the second largest urban Jewish community in history, that of New York City.

" " In what is essentially an exercise — a slick urban thriller — it seems to exploit the youth of the girl without really dealing with it.

" These urban pioneers demonstrated that the inner-city was an " appropriate " and " viable " place to live, resulting in what is called " inner city chic " ( London and Palen, 1984 ).

A few medieval cities were admired for their wide thoroughfares and orderly arrangements, but the juridical chaos of medieval cities ( where the administration of streets was sometimes passed down through noble families ), and the characteristic tenacity of medieval Europeans in legal matters prevented frequent or large-scale urban planning until the Renaissance and the early-modern strengthening of central government administration, as European society transited from city-states to what we would recognize as a more modern concept of a nation-state.

Technical forecasting of passenger travel usually involves an urban transportation planning model, requiring the estimation of trip generation ( how many trips for what purpose ), trip distribution ( destination choice, where is the traveler going ), mode choice ( what mode is being taken ), and route assignment ( which streets or routes are being used ).

Tapiola provided a utopian vision of society and an alternative to what was seen at the time as an oppressive urban environment.

This contention has been partly corroborated by some modern studies that indicate slaves ' material conditions in the 19th century were " better than what was typically available to free urban laborers at the time.

American chattel slaves in the 19th century had improved their standard of living from the 18th century and, according to historians Fogel and Engerman plantation records show that slaves worked less, were better fed and whipped only occasionally – their material conditions in the 19th century being " better than what was typically available to free urban laborers at the time ".

Major urban fires broke out in the city in the following days, destroying what little remained of historical significance.

Ask the Cubans, the Vietnamese or urban American blacks what lengths the system is willing to go to, to preserve itself.