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... a category of location data. The category may also be designated as regional information but either way can serve, for example, as a heading for a section of a community profile that provides information surrounding a location. See the several definitions beginning with the word area in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary. The glossary also has an addendum titled Local and Area Development which has various definitions that may be of interest. The website you are now using has a section title Regional Site Selection Directory. It is a site selection resource. Information below explains that a typical file in the directory carries the name of the place that is recognized as a development region's economic and commercial center. ... An area known by the name of the place that is its economic development and transportation center. As a general rule, a region with a commercial airport which outsiders know by the name of the major city. The region has rural areas and communities tied together by a network of ground and, sometimes, water transportation routes. Webpages for city-regions are published by request in Site Location Assistance.com. Pages include listings of other places in the region. Upon request, the following information may be published on a city-region page without cost or obligation. CLICK HERE to make a request. (1) Listing of the name of a location, any place that can be found on a map. (2) A link to contact data online for an area developer in position to supply economic development data about the regions and listed locations. Only one area development organization may be listed with a free link. A webpage sponsor listing takes precedence over a free listing. (3) A link for accessing contact data for a .network participant. CLICK HERE if you have questions or comments, or want to request a free .network listing. global city-regions: See the definition of global region in the .network glossary. CLICK HERE for resource links to lists of global city-regions with populations. CLICK
HERE for .network examples of
global city-regions listed by countries. The webpage with the examples
links back to the following explanation of how to gather location data. CLICK HERE to request
that we organize and publish a webpage for a city-region of interest to you
(a service we provide without cost or obligation on
your part). When we receive a request to list a place
of interest to a
.network user, we do the work of searching for its location
data supplier. We publish a link, for free, to the contact
data online
for a location data supplier or to where information information about
the place can be found. Note: Copy and paste the italicized text in the search tool's search box, substituting the identity of the place of interest to you for the word location in parentheses. For example, search for city-region economic development data Tokyo, Japan . We searched for Bogotá, Columbia using similar keywords at one time for a .network user and came up with the website for the American Chambers of Commerce (AmChams) which provided contact data for 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce in Bogotá, Colombia was one of the contact data listings. A website was created in conjunction with 1999 Global City Regions Conference.
Some links from one of its pages, www.sppsr.ucla.edu/globalcityregions/Links/links.html,
are listed below. The transportation center for a region is generally a metropolis, but can be a micropolitan community, which in either case plays a significant role in the area's economic development. Search for the name of a city in Site Location Assistance.com to start on the path for finding a location data supplier for a region that interests you. Other resource and service providers as .network participants may be listed in a city-region file. If you search for a city or other regional name in Site Location Assistance.com and nothing turns up or you are otherwise dissatisfied with what you find, send us an email. You don't have to send an explanation unless you want our assistance with a problem. You should send a list of places for which you are in position to supply location data if you are an area developer requesting a city-region listing in Site Location Assistance.com. The service of listings locations and their data suppliers/links is provided without cost or obligation. The term global city-region is also defined here in conjunction with Environmental Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City Regions. It identifies various types of cities and city-regions. City-regions.are large, densely populated, areas made up of a number of communities that blend into one urban area without political boundaries taken into consideration. See the definitions of global city-region, metropolitan area, and Metropolitan Statistical Area. megalopolis: ... one of the largest of cities; a global
city-region; by .network definition,
a location of
expansive area with a contact in
position to supply economic
development data about it
... a metro
area or a city with a population between
200,000 and 500,000 according to an article published
in The Journal of Applied Ecology (1989);
a midsize metropolitan
area that
is a location or
that gives identity to a city-region and
by .network definition has
a contact in
position to supply economic
development data.
... a metro
area; a large city having a population of 500,000
or more; a metropolitan
area that
is a
location or
that gives identity to a city-region and
by .network definition has a contact in
position to supply economic
development data about it.
... a metro
area or a city with a population between 50,000
and 200,000 according to an article published in The
Journal of Applied Ecology (1989); a midsize metropolitan
area that is a location or
that gives identity to a city-region and
by .network definition has a contact in
position to supply economic
development data.
... an area if urban and
rural mix that has city-like qualities or features at
its center (more).
... a community of sufficient size so
as to be classified larger than a village but too small
in population to be considered a city; a community as a
location with a name but distinctly less populated than
a microlopolis and without urban characteristics; a settlement
in a rural environment with a commercial center; a relatively
small community in a city-region outlying from other communities
so that it is distinctly not contiguous to an urban area.
A small town on a railroad line is called as a whistle
stop if a train stops only if signaled.
... the classification of a developed
area that has the characteristics
of a city in terms of its demographics,
especially in terms of lifestyle and density of population
... a small community in a rural area
that doesn't have distinct commercial center but may have
one or two stores; a settlement with a population larger
than a hamlet or cross-roads community but not having the
characteristics of a town. A cross-roads community is defined
as a place where transportation arteries intersect in a
rural area and where there are several houses and possibly
a store. A cross-roads with a railroad station may be
called a whistle stop. The Network offers an economic development
resource paper that explains how a cross-roads grew to
become a village, how a village grew to become a town,
and how a town grew to become a city. Scroll up this page
for
the definitions of cities of various sizes. At the top
of this page is the definition of city-region, a location
named for the place that drives an area economy.
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Metropolitan area and micropolitan area are expressions used to by the US Census Bureau in presenting demographic information. By US Government definition a Metropolitan Statistical Area MSA) may be either a microlopolis, mesolopolis, metropolis or megalopolis. metropolitan ... see information
in Wikipedia. Also, see the .network definition
of a locale as urban area centered on a city and defined by demographic
statistics; Metropolitan Statistical Area: (defined by the US Government
as having
a population of 50,000 or more). If contiguous MSAs are combined into
a single urban area with a population in excess of one million, it is
referred to as a Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area or CMSA.
MSAs that combine into a CMSA are no longer referred to as such, but
may be referred to as Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas. For example,
Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC may be referred to as PMSAs individually,
although they are the Baltimore/Washington CMSA.
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data (location)
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the definitions of urbanized area and urban land. The opposite
of urban is rural which is generally though of as
having agrarian or pastoral characteristics and is identified
as a sparsely populated area. Various definitions of rural
depend on having a population density
of less that a specified number within a designated area.
The argument can be made that a rural area, which is not
barren, is more likely to have qualities for sustaining
its population and to be self-contained as opposed to a
urban area which is distinctly dependent upon importation
and some level of commerce.