A city-state is an independent or autonomous entity, not administered as a part of another local government, whose territory consists of a city and possibly its surrounding territory. A city-state can ...
Main article: Inner cityIn the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland, the term "inner city" is sometimes used with the connotation of being an area, perhaps a ghetto, where people are less wealthy ...
Main article: Global cityA global city, also known as a world city, is a prominent centre of trade, banking, finance, innovation, and markets. The term "global city", as opposed to megacity, was coine ...
The difference between towns and cities is differently understood in different parts of the world. Indeed, some languages other than English use a single word for both concepts. Iberian languages typi ...
Modern cities are known for creating their own microclimates. This is due to the large clustering of heat absorbent surfaces that heat up in sunlight and that channel rainwater into underground ducts. ...
Further information: Historical cities and List of largest cities throughout historyThe Round city of Baghdad, the capital of IraqExtent and major sites of the Indus Valley Civilization of ancient Ind ...
City planning has seen many different schemes for how a city should look. The most commonly seen pattern is the grid, used for thousands of years in China, independently invented by Alexander the Grea ...
There is not enough evidence to assert what conditions gave rise to the first cities. However, some theorists have speculated on what they consider suitable pre-conditions, and basic mechanisms that m ...
A city is a relatively large and permanent human settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a part ...
Origin and use The word town shares an origin with the German word Zaun, the Dutch word tuin, and the Old Norse tun. The German word Zaun comes closest to the original meaning of the word: a fence of ...
Lebanon The main square of Saifi Village in Centre Ville, Beirut, LebanonLike France, villages in Lebanon are usually located in remote mountainous areas. The majority of villages in Lebanon retain th ...
United Kingdom See also: Largest village in EnglandA village in the UK is a compact settlement of houses, smaller in size than a town, and generally based on agriculture or, in some areas, mining (suc ...
South Asia A North Indian village in Rajasthan, India"The soul of India lives in its villages", declared M. K. Gandhi at the beginning of 20th century. According to the 2011 census of India, 68.84% of ...
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand (sometimes tens of thousands). Thou ...
Agrarianism is similar but not identical with the back-to-the-land movement. Agrarianism concentrates on the fundamental goods of the earth, communities of more limited economic and political scale th ...
