Friday, November 13, 2009

Important words in November - Wikipedia

Landscape Urbanism is a theory of urbanism arguing that landscape, rather than architecture, is more capable of organizing the city and enhancing the urban experience

Micro-urban is an informal term for smaller cities of 250,000 or less with certain urban characteristics normally found in large metropolitan centers. The characteristics generally associated with micro-urban locations are diversity, arts, culture, technology, public discourse, and public transportation.

Micropolitan area are urban areas in the United States based around a core city or town with a population of 10,000 to 49,999

New Urbanism is an urban design movement, which promotes walkable neighborhoods that contain a range of housing and job types.

Urban, city, and town planning integrates land use planning and transport planning to improve the built and social environments of communities.

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