Talk:Urban Area

Merge with Urban area
Great idea. In the US, as far as I can gather the term urban area is used as an umbrella term including both urbanised areas (over 50,000) and urban clusters (1,500 to 50,000).

It seems to be that urban area is the most transferable term in the population statistics of built-up areas. The principle is the same: measure the built-up area, not the local government area. Getting a clear idea of how different countries measure urban areas could be useful, so this could prove to be a very important article (post-merge).

202.175.143.143 21:38, 19 January 2006 (UTC) (User:Ben Arnold not logged in)

I agree. They are measuring the same thing to all intents and purposes. The general rule in Europe is contiguous urban development with no gap of more than 200m. In the UK however the maximum break is only 50m which is annoying. As regards comparisons with the US, might I suggest Americans have a look at the maps on this page (say, Edinburgh) and try to apply it mentally to your own US city. I think you'll find commuter settlements here are often excluded from the main urban area where they would be included in the US. Jameswilson 00:00, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

I actually took the content from Urban area and expanded it here, and redirected Urban area to Urbanized area. The change was reverted apparently because urbanized area is a US-specific term. I agree that we should merge but use "Urban area" as the main article instead. Polaron 00:59, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I've merged the two. It probably needs copy editing etc., but it's a start. Ben Arnold 00:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)