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:
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there.... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“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)