urban area
Britishnoun
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Parking lots in a walkable, urban area are “out of vogue,” said Scott Ziegler, an architect who has planned other mixed-use developments above grocery stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
"That means that if a local policymaker in an urban area were to take interest in reducing exposures, they may receive the most impact per piece of infrastructure if they focus on storage," Buonocore said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2025
Jacquet also sees his project as a way to reindustrialise an urban area -- with many parts of Europe feeling the strain from decades of factory closures.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
Ground forces are already pushing into the outskirts of Gaza's largest urban area, which the military has said is a stronghold of Hamas.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025
One ran along the Pacific Coast from an urban area in western Mexico all the way to northern Alaska.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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