The urban hierarchy ranks each city based on the size of population residing within the nationally defined statistical urban area. Because urban population...

A settlement hierarchy is a way of arranging settlements into a hierarchy based upon their size. The term is used by landscape historians and in the National...

The urban hierarchy of Brazil places Brazil's cities into categories: global cities, national metropolises, regional metropolises, regional capitols (A...

state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy. A primate city distribution is a rank-size distribution that has one...

further subdivided into 3091 civil parishes (freguesias). In Portugal, urban centers (cities, towns and hamlets) have no legal authority and are social...

typically lose families to larger towns that have one. But the concept (urban hierarchy) can be applied more generally to many services and is explained by...

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a conceptualisation of the needs (or goals) that motivate human behaviour, which was proposed by the American psychologist...

Fred (June 1991). "Change and Stability Within an Urban Hierarchy: Waterloo County 1864 to 1971". Urban History Review. 20 (1). University of Toronto Press:...

A hierarchy (from Greek: ἱεραρχία, hierarkhia, 'rule of a high priest', from hierarkhes, 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects...

status of the city of Madrid as the capital of the Spanish State and in urban hierarchy. Its boundaries are coextensive with those of the province of Madrid...

The street hierarchy is an urban planning technique for laying out road networks that exclude automobile through-traffic from developed areas. It is conceived...

da Caparica has been designated as cidade (city or town) within the urban hierarchy of Portugal. The toponymy Caparica developed from a legend about an...

entry. For a description of Australian Capital Territory's suburbs and urban hierarchy, including districts, town centres and suburbs, see Suburbs of the...

dictionary. A second city is the second-most important city in the urban hierarchy of a country or region, often in contrast to a primate city. In particular...

serve areas without any overlap. In the orderly arrangement of an urban hierarchy, seven different principal orders of settlement have been identified...

place African Americans beneath the Irish in the racial and social urban hierarchy. Although the Irish had a strong Celtic presence in vaudeville and...

Evan Jones, and Christopher Dyer. "The urban hierarchy in the later Middle Ages: a study of the East Midlands." Urban history (2001): 331–357. McWhirr, A...

typically lose families to larger towns that have one. But the concept (urban hierarchy) can be applied more generally to many services and is explained by...

of urban planning was marked by an attempt to extend imperial authority uniformly across China by creating an economic and political urban hierarchy. In...

A command hierarchy is a group of people who carry out orders based on others' authority within the group. In a military context, the chain of command...

A racial hierarchy is a system of stratification that is based on the belief that some racial groups are superior to other racial groups. At various points...

from Belo Horizonte, the state's capital. According to the map of urban hierarchy produced by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Três...

Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air...

transport hierarchy (Canada), street user hierarchy (US), sustainable transport hierarchy (Wales), urban transport hierarchy or road user hierarchy (Australia...

{{{annotations}}} {{{annotations}}} A road hierarchy is a system for categorizing roads. Road networks worldwide are typically organized according to...

road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road that sits below highways on the road hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed.[obsolete source]...

subnational administrative units of India; they are composed of a nested hierarchy of administrative divisions. Indian states and territories frequently...

through a 'hierarchy of places' as people a-spatially migrate in a stepwise formation up a hierarchy of places from rural areas to urban, progressive...

level in an urban hierarchy during economic development (1994). It has been applied to the emergence of higher levels in an ecological hierarchy (Rosser,...

centres. Among these metropolises, Madrid stands out within the global urban hierarchy in terms of its status as a major service centre and enjoys the greatest...