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 Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another, and of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement CONCORD.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)