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City Centre - The highest order centre, often a regional or sub-regional retailing andservice centre, serving a wide catchment. See also Central Business District.City Improvement Districts (CID) - Designated urban centre management (oftenfocused on town and city centre districts) where businesses agree to pay additional ratesto fund improvements to the general commercial environment. Also referred to as BusinessImprovement Districts although this typically involves wider community and city interestsrather than purely the business sector.Conurbation - A conurbation is an urban area or agglomeration comprising a numberof cities, large towns and larger urban areas that, through population growth and physicalexpansion, have merged to form one continuous urban and industrially developed area.In most cases, a conurbation is a polycentric agglomeration, in which transportation hasdeveloped to link areas to create a single urban labour market or travel to work area.known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban periphery dependingon the definition used. It is mainly the area that is not part of the city but is connected tothe city.Precinct - A geographic area that forms a specific part the urban environment, usuallycomprises more than two suburbs, with similar geographic characteristics and/or clusteredtogether by specific edge conditions.Region - A region is an area of land, space, place, having more or less definitely markedboundaries or characteristics. In general, a region is a medium-scale area of land or water,smaller than the whole areas of interest (which could be, for example, the world, a nation,a river basin, mountain range, etc), and larger than a specific site. A region may be seenas a collection of smaller units or as one part of a larger whole. Regions can be defined byphysical characteristics, human characteristics, and functional characteristics.Urban Agglomeration - An agglomeration is an extended city or town area comprisingthe built-up area of a central place (usually a municipality) and any suburbs linked bycontinuous urban area.'Edge City'- in urban geographic profiling (largely emanating from the USA), 'edge city'is taken to mean new out-of-town urban node largely (if not exclusively) predicated onprivate mobility. They thus most notably occur on the edge of or beyond the city limits ofexisting city systems and are generally fostered by highways and the interchanges in privatemobility regional routes. They are often negatively construed as a flight of capital andeconomic energy away from the existing city system and are hence associated with theartificial creation of 'privileged, exclusive enclaves' created in parallel with, and integral tothe city.Urban Hierarchy - a ranking of human settlements or urban areas/centres according totheir population size and/or the number of services they provide.Metropolitan Area - A metropolitan area usually combines an agglomeration (thecontiguous built-up area) with peripheral zones not themselves necessarily urban in character,but closely bound to the centre by employment or commerce. These zones are also sometimesSettlement/Human Settlement - A settlement is a general term used in archaeology,landscape history and other subjects for a permanent or temporary community in whichpeople live and which avoids being specific as to size, population or importance. A settlementcan therefore range in size from a small number of dwellings grouped together to thelargest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. The term may include hamlets, villages,towns and cities.Neighbourhood - A residential area where people reside, supported by the full rangeof local services and facilities, including daily needs, retail facilities, educational, health,religious and civic uses. Within a neighbourhood, residents have developed local loyaltiesand common values and spatially share common concerns, mutual trust and those publicaspects of their lives they choose to share. It can comprise a single suburb or a groupingof suburbs.Suburb - Suburbs are commonly defined as smaller residential communities lying immediatelyoutside a city. i.e. the outer zone of towns or cities. They usually comprise expansive areasof residential neighbourhoods/ development.ANNEXURE E: GLOSSARY OF TERMSGAUTENG SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 2011GAUTENG GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY196