Sentence examples for extent of cities from inspiring English sources

Cities and means of travel grew together, with the shape and extent of cities determined largely by the available transport technology.

Urban sprawl, also called sprawl or suburban sprawl, the rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation.

The Corporation led the legal charge against Occupy, whose response was to draw attention to the extent of City 2's unaccountable power.

For a comparative analysis of the city size of Dhaka with other Mughal cities, the textual description of different travelers featuring the extent of the cities of that time was considered (Table 3).

"The boundaries for the city council don't match the urban conurbation, the extent of the city itself.

Just as transportation helped to define the geographic extent of the city by the arrangement of its lines and stations and its speed, the demand for travel by city residents determined which transportation technology could succeed in the marketplace.

The extent of the city's financial loss is unknown.

The size and number of its temples turned out to be matched by the extent of the city around them.

The tracks, radiating like spokes of a wheel, define the extent of a city's reach to distant farmlands and neighboring settlements.

It occupies wide, flat prairie, meaning a visitor landing at the airport sees the full extent of the city's sprawl as nowhere else.

Karşıyaka (formerly Kordelia) district, once a separate town across the gulf from central İzmir, now constitutes the northwestern extent of the city.