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.

The urban district includes what were once the separate villages of Aberaman, Abernant, Cwmaman, Cwmbach, Cwmdare, Llwydcoed, Penywaun and Trecynon.

In 1894 Abersychan became an urban district and civil parish.

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.

In 1900 the South was only 15% urban ; ;

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

The system was not well adapted to conditions of life in urban centers.

The Istiqlal-sponsored U.M.C.I.A. ( L'Union Marocaine Des Commercants, Industrialistes et Artisans ) was opposed by candidates of the new U.N.F.P. ( L'Union National Des Forces Populaires ) in nearly all urban centers.

The U.N.F.P. learned that its urban organization, which depends heavily on U.M.T. support, was most effective.

Slavery was gradually phased out of existence in the North and was fading in the border states and urban areas, but expanded in highly profitable cotton states of the Deep South.

The Country Life Movement was a loose grouping of social reformers, church leaders, and urban progressives ; they sought solutions for rural economic decline, social stagnation, and the depopulation of the countryside.

Excell's version was more palatable for a growing urban middle class and arranged for larger church choirs.

Thirdly, population growth was absorbed by neighboring municipalities in the regional urban area, and numerous citizens of Aarau moved into the countryside.

The urban plan of Aelia Capitolina was that of a typical Roman town wherein main thoroughfares crisscrossed the urban grid lengthwise and widthwise.

The urban grid was based on the usual central north-south road ( cardo ) and central east-west route ( decumanus ).

The figure for the urban area was 71, 224, up 1. 1 % from 70, 442 in 1991.

This resulted in an urban battle that killed 18 American soldiers, wounded 73 others, and one was taken prisoner.

The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.

In parallel to the development of the bus was the invention of the electric trolleybus, typically fed through trolley poles by overhead wires, which actually preceded, and in many urban areas outnumbered, the conventional engine powered bus.

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Established in the middle of the 8th century and thus being one of the earliest urban settlements in Scandinavia, Birka was the Baltic link in the river and portage route through Ladoga ( Aldeigja ) and Novgorod ( Holmsgard ) to the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid Califate.

If it was instead hilly, wooded, marshy, or urban, armour would be vulnerable to infantry in close-quarters combat and unable to break out at full speed.

Historically, in Europe, a city was understood to be an urban settlement with a cathedral.

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.

In 1965 the urban district was abolished and the area was transferred from Kent to Greater London, to form part of the London Borough of Bromley.

The urban district was abolished in 1965 and merged with others to became part of the London Borough of Hillingdon in Greater London.

The urban district was abolished in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963, and its former area merged with that of other districts to form the London Borough of Bromley.

The parish and district were abolished in 1934 and combined with Chislehurst to form the Chislehurst and Sidcup civil parish and urban district.

In 1965 the parish and urban district were abolished.

In 1907, it was created an urban district, which included Goodwick from 1934 until it was abolished in 1974.

In 1967 Linderås was amalgamated with the City of Tranås, which in 1971 was made a municipality of unitary type when all differences between rural and urban municipalities were abolished.

All administrative and judicial differences between rural and urban areas were abolished.

From 1884 the town was administered by the Chesham Local Government District, which was succeeded in 1894 by Chesham Urban District under the Local Government Act 1894. Chesham Town crest When the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect on 1 April 1974 the urban district was abolished in favour of the Chiltern district and the civil parish was given town council status.

** In California, several urban counties ( including Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego ) once maintained separate county Marshal's Offices which served as court officers similar to US Marshals, but mainly for the Municipal Court system ( this system was abolished by state law in 2000, when the sheriffs of those counties announced that those counties ' marshals would be absorbed into their departments ), thus, many have been merged into or taken over by the local County Sheriff's Office, with the exceptions of San Benito County, well south of the San Francisco Bay Area, Shasta County and Trinity County both located in Northern California.

These areas were part of the urban districts of Great Crosby and Waterloo with Seaforth and the Municipal Borough of Crosby before it to was abolished and became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton.

This was abolished in 1912, with the urban area becoming part of the municipal borough of Cambridge, and the larger but less populous rural part forming part of the Milton parish.

* The extensive 1898 Local Government Act abolished the old landlord-dominated Grand Juries and replaced them by forty-nine county, urban and rural district councils, managed by Irish people for the administration of local affairs.

In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 the Hinckley urban district was abolished, becoming an unparished area in the borough of Hinckley and Bosworth.

In 1932, the Crowland ( which consisted of the single parish of Crowland ) RD was abolished and added to Spalding RD, and all urban districts apart from Spalding were abolished and added to East Elloe RD.

Bourne urban district was abolished in 1920, with Bourne becoming a parish in Bourne Rural District.

In 1974 the urban district was abolished and the area became part of the borough of Hertsmere.

After independence, Tunisia's Jewish Community Council was abolished by the government and many Jewish areas and buildings were destroyed for " urban renewal ".

In 1934 the parish of Boveney was abolished, under a County Review Order, with the more urbanised part being added to Eton urban district, and with the larger, less populous part being added to the parish of Dorney.

The civil parish of Hitcham was abolished in 1934 under a County Review Order, with the urban part going to Burnham parish, a larger but less populous part going to Taplow, and a tiny sliver going to Dorney.

The district was created on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of Penzance and St. Ives boroughs, St Just urban district, and West Penwith Rural District, and was abolished and replaced by the Cornwall Unitary Council on 31 March 2009.