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)

    “The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)