Urban Settlement

Urban settlement may refer to:

  • Urban area, area with high density of human-created structures
  • Municipal urban settlement, a type of municipal formation in Russia
  • Urban settlement, a synonym for urban localities in Russia
  • Urban-type settlement, an official designation for a certain type of urban locality used in some of the former republics of the Soviet Union

Famous quotes containing the words urban and/or settlement:

    “I have misplaced the Van Allen belt
    the sewers and the drainage,
    the urban renewal and the suburban centers.
    I have forgotten the names of the literary critics.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”
    —John Adams (1735–1826)