… We all know an urban place when we see it, but defining it is not as easy as it might seem. …
If we agree that urban is a place-based characteristic, then we can proceed to define an urban …

… defining urban areas which this paper postulates. The only snag in this method is that it
does not classify settlements statistically after computing the location coefficient of functions (C) …

Among epidemiologists, there has been increasing interest in the characteristics of communities
that influence health. In the United States, the rural health disparity has been a recent …

… shares of urban area, while urban polycentric RURs, while comprising a similar amount of
urban area show a much higher share of peri-urban area. Urban and peri-urban areas further …

… These studies suggest that three spatial factors could be involved in defining urban areas:
internal structure, contextual structure, and the relation between the two. The syntactic studies …

… adequate data for defining urban areas. It is therefore necessary to consider whether definitions
of urban areas are fixed or fluid. Where they are fixed, changes in urban population must …

… This chapter sets out a new methodology for defining urban areas, as functional economic
places, in a consistent way across countries. The methodology is applied to 28 OECD …

… urban areas in the east to dense suburbs followed by less dense suburbs and rural areas …
The southern transect parallels a major transportation corridor (I-90) and contains two urban …

… We also offer a set of consistently defined metropolitan areas … areas and statistical definitions
in use in each of these urban … defined metropolitan areas with the UN's list of largest urban …

… type, in particular, is very small with a population, of 114,000, which compares, for
example, to that of the 2001 Census-defined urban areas of Southport or St Albans. Sparse …