A metropolitan area is a zone of contiguous settlement — the expanse from the heart of downtown to where open land begins.
UN-Habitat [1] defined an informal settlement (slum) as "a contiguous settlement where the inhabitants are characterized as having inadequate housing and basic services".
For example, whilst Africover represents the most detailed datasource on settlements and their extents for the region, just 323 settlements are mapped for Kenya, whilst the process described here identified over 7000 distinct groups of ten or more contiguous settlement pixels.
Those close to the prime minister say that additional building will be "contiguous" to existing settlements, and that no more Palestinian land will be expropriated.
It has long seemed inevitable that a lasting peace would allow Israelis to keep some of the large West Bank settlements contiguous to Jerusalem and would offer, at most, a very limited right of return for the Palestinians whose families fled at the dawn of a Jewish state.
Chadderton is contiguous with other settlements on all sides, including a shared boundary with the city of Manchester to the southwest.
He envisages islands of Palestinian territory, not contiguous, surrounded by Israeli settlements, highways and military units.
He said it should be "contiguous," suggesting that certain settlements — especially the big ones deep inside the West Bank — could not be annexed to Israel.
Israel should dismantle settlements not contiguous with its border and negotiate land swaps to redraw borders around the most populated areas.
The city is part of the 120-mile long stretch of nearly contiguous urban and suburban settlement that includes ten counties, with a total population of about 2.5 million people.
