urban hierarchy

collocation in English

meanings of urbanand hierarchy

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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈɜː.bən/ us /ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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hierarchy
noun[C]
uk /ˈhaɪə.rɑː.ki/ us /ˈhaɪ.rɑːr.ki/
a system in which people or things are arranged according to ...
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Examples of urban hierarchy

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Indeed, it is still not entirely clear just what defines a city and a city's place in the urbanhierarchy.
Most of these towns ranked in the urbanhierarchy as tertiary medium-sized or small towns.
The approach that we have adopted here is to identify a series of benchmarks which can be used to place towns in the urbanhierarchy.
Occasional music, in short, was a mirror of the urbanhierarchy and a vehicle for the socially ambitious.
The whole urbanhierarchy was by then adequately covered.
Figure 6 gives an impression of the urbanhierarchy in the middle of the seventeenth century.
The 'folk culture' also produced in the nineteenth century its own response to the national urban hierarchy in the structure of eisteddfodau and denominations.
If intercity personal interaction follows a hierarchical model, as suggested here, then we would expect linguistic changes to diffuse along the urbanhierarchy.
The minute organization of this ritual was a common expression of the urbanhierarchy and social order that ruled the town.
The article explores the relationship between variables, city size, position in the urbanhierarchy, urban growth and the function of the city in relation to the spread of the telephone.
However, the geographical pattern does not even faintly resemble either the diffusion pattern down the urbanhierarchy or the contrary pattern from the smaller to the larger cities.
Understanding the development of the near-northern urbanhierarchy thus depends on close examination of the actual processes involved, but the existence of effective models from elsewhere has discouraged this.
There is much concern with urban hierarchies, statistical sophistication and some interest in theory.
Sites of the metropolis that are commonly associated with the representational value of the city are discharged and urban hierarchies are reassessed.
This perspective is strengthened by a dozen maps and other figures that provide information about distances between cities of varying sizes and thus about urban hierarchies.
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