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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › CityCity - Wikipedia

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   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.

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     Television. City, a 1990 TV series starring Valerie Harper;...

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     List of city name changes; List of largest cities throughout...

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PDFPDF - Wikipedia

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   Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › BiographyBiography - Wikipedia

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   A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events.

4. www.britannica.com › place › Columbus-OhioColumbus | History, Population, Map, & Facts | Britannica

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   Jun 1, 2024 · Columbus, city, Franklin, Fairfield, and Delaware counties, capital (1816) of Ohio, U.S., and seat (1824) of Franklin county. It is situated in the central part of the state on the relatively flat Ohio till plain, at the junction of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers.

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5. unhabitat.org › city_definition_what_is_a_cityWHAT IS A CITY? - UN-Habitat

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   WHAT IS A CITY? 1. BACKGROUND. The city, one of the world’s biggest phenomenon of the 21st century has evolved greatly over the centuries, particularly in terms of its size, form, structure and composition, while largely maintaining its importance in local and regional development.

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6. press.uchicago.edu › ucp › booksChicago: A Biography, Pacyga

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   Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who built it.

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   What does a city mean?

   • 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.

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   What is a city proper?

   • “City Proper” independently or combined with other conceptual definitions is an obvious source of recurrent controversy, and tends to produce inaccurate information on the city population. The Urban Agglomeration concept refers to “a contiguous territory inhabited at urban density levels without regard to administrative boundaries”.

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   What is the function of a city?

   • According to the "functional definition", a city is not distinguished by size alone, but also by the role it plays within a larger political context. Cities serve as administrative, commercial, religious, and cultural hubs for their larger surrounding areas.

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   What makes a city a 'city expanse'?

   • The uniqueness of urban form, the fragmented and interstitial fabric of cities, the spatial and functional blur between urban and rural areas, as well as complex growth trends that generate diverse patterns and conditions have made it dificult to delimit city expanses, and coin a single and that is universally applicable definition.

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8. link.springer.com › content › pdfThe Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project

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   Abstract The aggregation of urban population has been described by Bücher and Weber. A socio-logical study of the growth of the city, however, is concerned with the definition and description of processes, as those of (a) expansion, (b) metabolism, and (c) mobility. The typical tendency of urban growth is the expansion radially from its ...