Cities & towns

Cities & towns

Cities and towns around the world and their related terms.

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Surabaya

Geography; Cities & towns

Surabaya is Indonesia's second-largest city with a population of over 3.1 million (5.6 million in the metropolitan area), and the capital of the province of East Java. It is located on the ...

Los Angeles

Geography; Cities & towns

The city of Los Angeles has one of the largest concentrations of homeless people in the United States. Currently, it houses about 57,737 homeless people (second only to New York city).

Taking Los Angeles as their model city, urban geographers Michael Dear and Steven Flusty, in their 1998 article "Postmodern Urbanism" (Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88.1, March ...

Subcentering

Geography; Cities & towns

In his 1978 textbook for undergraduates, Urban Economics, Harry W. Richardson, an economics professor at USC Los Angeles, called for a new model through which to consider the phenomenon of ...

edge city

Geography; Cities & towns

An area away from a city's Central Business District (E.W. Burgess 1925) and usually close to a major road and/or expressway, where a high volume of shopping and business activity takes place. There ...