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Acropolis (Greek: ) means "high city" in Greek, literally city on the extremity and is usually translated into English as Citadel (akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city, pl. acropoleis). For purposes of defense, early people naturally chose elevated ground to build a new settlement, frequently a hill with precipitous sides. In many parts of the world, these early citadels became the nuclei of large cities, which grew up on the surrounding lower ground, such as modern Rome.It is the best known acropolis in the world. Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as The Acropolis without qualification. The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the preeminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007. 2. Antipolis, Greek for 'city opposite. ("the city across"), the former name for Antibes, France 3. Astropolis (from the Greek for city of stars) Star-scaled city/industry area; complex space station; a European star-related festival. 4. Biopolis is an international research and development centre located in Singapore for biomedical sciences. It is an international research and development centre located in Singapore for biomedical sciences. It is located in One-North in Buona Vista, near Dover, and is close to the National University of Singapore, the Singapore Polytechnic, the Institute of Technical Education, the National University Hospital, the Singapore Science Park, Ministry of Education, and Fusionopolis. This campus is dedicated to providing space for biomedical research and development activities and promoting peer review and collaboration among the private and public scientific community. 5. Constantinopolis (Greek: , Knstantinopolis; Latin: Nova Roma or Constantinopolis; Ottoman Turkish: , Kostantiniyye and modern Turkish: stanbul) was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city. 6. Cambysopolis Is the non-classical name of a Roman Catholic titular bishopric in the former Roman province of Asia Minor. The name is owing to a mistake of some medieval geographer. 7. Cosmopolis - A large city inhabited by people from many different countries. It is a large urban centre with a population of many different cultural backgrounds. 8. The Decapolis ("Ten Cities"; Greek: deka, ten; polis, city) was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Judea and Syria. The ten cities were not an official league or political unit, but they were grouped together because of their language, culture, location, and political status. The Decapolis cities were centers of Greek and Roman culture in a region that was otherwise Semitic (Nabatean, Aramean, and Jewish). With the exception of Damascus, the "Region of the Decapolis" was located in modern-day Jordan, one of them located west of the Jordan River in Israel. Each city had a certain degree of autonomy and self-rule. A confederacy in northeast Palestine of ten Roman-controlled cities settled by Greeks. It was formed after 63 B.C. and dominated by Damascus. ("Ten Cities";

Greek: deka, ten; polis, city) was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Judea andSyria. The ten cities were not an official league or political unit, but they were grouped together because of their language, culture, location, and political status. 9. Ecumenopolis -A single city encompassing the whole world that is held to be a possibility of the future. (from Greek: meaning world, and (polis) meaning city, thus a city made of the whole world;) is a word invented in 1967 by the Greek city planner Constantinos Doxiadis to represent the idea that in the future urban areas and megalopolises would eventually fuse and there would be a single continuous worldwide city as a progression from the current urbanization and population growth trends. It was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE). Persepolis is situated 70 km northeast of the modern city of Shiraz in the Fars Province of modern Iran. The earliest remains of Persepolis date from around 515 BCE. To the ancient Persians, the city was known as Prsa, which means "The City of Persians". Persepolis is a transliteration of the Greek (Perss polis: "Persian city"). 10. Persepolis - An ancient city of Persia northeast of modern Shiraz in southwest Iran. It was the ceremonial capital of Darius I and his successors. Its ruins include the palaces of Darius and Xerxes and a citadel that contained the treasury looted by Alexander the Great. 11. Heliopolis - ("City of the Sun" or "City of Helios"; Egyptian "Eye of the Sun") was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt, the capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian Nome that was located five miles (8 km) east of the Nile to the north of the apex of the Nile Delta. 12. Necropolis- A cemetery, especially a large and elaborate one belonging to an ancient city. Greek plural: necropoleis,Latin plural: necropoles) is a large cemetery or burial ground, usually including structural tombs. The word comes from the Greek - nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead. 13. Metaropolis - Is a very large city or urban area which is a significant economic, political and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections and communications. 14. Megapolis - A very large city. A region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas in sufficient proximity to be considered a single urban complex. Sometimes called a MEGALOPOLIS or MEGAREGION is typically defined as a chain or roughly adjacent metropolitan areas. 15. Technopolis - is an industrial museum and a major cultural venue of the City of Athens, Greece, in the neighborhood of Gazi, next to Keramikos and very close to the Acropolis. It is dedicated to the memory of the great Greek composer Manos Hatzidakis, which is why it is also known as "Gazi Technopolis Manos Hatzidakis". 16. Tripolis - City (pop., 2001: 28,976), southern Greece, the commercial centre of the central Peloponnese. It was founded in the 14th century AD as Drobolitza to replace the ancient cities of Pallantium, Tegea, and Mantinea. Rebuilt in 1770, it became the seat of the local Ottoman pasha. The city prospered until 1828, when it was destroyed in the War of Greek Independence. It was rebuilt after 1834. A group of three cities, retained in the names of a Tripoli in Libya, in Greece and a namesake in Lebanon

17. Pentapolis - From the Greek words (pente), "five" and (polis), "city (state)" is a geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities. 18. Aeropolis - It was a proposed 500-story high-rise building over Tokyo Bay in Japan, envisioned by Obayashi Corp. With a height of 2,000 meters (6,562 ft), the mammoth structure would have been approximately five times as high as the former World Trade Center in New York City. The Aeropolis was proposed in 1989, amid a spate of similar projects for incredibly large buildings. All were proposed during the Japanese asset price bubble, which ended in the early 1990s. According to a 1995 article, the corporation still had plans for the structure, and gave a proposed height of 2,079 meters (6,821 ft). 19. Agripolis - It is organized by way of cells, called plots (class Plot) of equal size. Taken together, the plots make up the entire region (class Region). Plots differ with respect to three aspects: land quality, usage structure, and ownership. Regarding land quality, Agripolis considers two qualities: arable land and grassland. Land of either quality is assumed to be homogeneous. 20. Polis - A city-state of ancient Greece. Literally means city in Greek. It could also mean citizenship and body of citizens. In modern historiography "polis" is normally used to indicate the ancient Greek city-states, like Classical Athens and its contemporaries, so polis is often translated as "city-state." 21. Cartesian skyscraper - The Cartesian sky-scraper, designed by Le Corbusier in 1938, is a type of tower building known for its modern and rational design. This type of modern administration building has its source in the first sketches for the Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau in 1919, which proposes a cruciform form for skyscrapers, radiating light and stability.[disambiguation needed] In principle the cruciform plan (with two axes) does not adapt itself to the path of the sun, which has only one axis. Studying further, it was seen that with this form symmetrical about two axes, the cruciform skyscraper does not receive sunlight on its north facades. 22. Charette - It is often Anglicized to charette and sometimes called a design charrette. It consists of an intense period of design activity. The word charrette may refer to any collaborative session in which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem. While the structure of a charrette varies, depending on the design problem and the individuals in the group, charrettes often take place in multiple sessions in which the group divides into sub-groups. Each sub-group then presents its work to the full group as material for future dialogue. Such charrettes serve as a way of quickly generating a design solution while integrating the aptitudes and interests of a diverse group of people. 23. Ciclovia - (also ciclovia or cyclovia English pronunciation: /siklvi./, Spanish: [ikloi.a]) is term which translates from Spanish into English as "bike path" and now used worldwide to describe either a permanently designated bicycle route or a temporary event, the closing of the street to automobiles for use by others. It is a Spanish term, meaning "bike path," used in Latin America to mean either a permanent designated bicycle route or a temporary event closing of the street to automobiles to allow dominance by other users. Permanent designated bicycle lanes

are also known as ciclo-rutas, while streets temporarily closed for that purpose are always called ciclovas. 24. City block - A city block, urban block or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. A city block is the smallest area that is surrounded by streets. City blocks are the space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, they form the basic unit of a city's urban fabric. City blocks may be subdivided into any number of smaller lots or parcels of land usually in private ownership, though in some cases, it may be other forms of tenure. City blocks are usually built-up to varying degrees and thus form the physical containers or 'streetwalls' of public space. Most cities are composed of a greater or lesser variety of sizes and shapes of urban block. 25. City network - City networks are the connections between cities. These networks can be of different nature and of different importance. In modern conceptions of cities, these networks play an important role in understanding the nature of cities. City networks can be physical connections to other places, such as railways, canals or scheduled flights. City network also exist in immaterial form, such as trade, global finance, markets, migration, cultural links, shared social spaces or shared histories. There are also networks of religious nature, in particular through pilgrimage. In the UK a city is defined by whether it has a cathedral or not. It is an advanced survey of the contemporary city and the role of buildings within it. The urban environment of our time is shaped by pressure from an increasingly global economy, advances in telecommunications, economic restructuring and radical socio demographic changes. The resulting city increasingly abandons a centered, fixed, place-bound, and hard entity for a fluid field condition organized by competing networks of technology and individuals. Recent changes have blurred the distinctions between city, suburb, and rural into a broader urban (or post-suburban) condition. 26. City region - The area around a city which serves and is served by the city. Has been in use since about 1950 by urbanites, economists and urban planners to mean a metropolitan area and hinterland which has a shared and formal administrative government. Typically, it denotes a city, conurbation or urban zone with multiple administrative districts, but sharing resources like a central business district, labor market and transport network, such that it functions as a single unit. 27. Civic center - Grouping of municipal facilities in a limited precinct often adjacent to the central business district of a city. The civic center is based on both the Greek acropolis and the Roman forum. The plan includes the city hall and adjoining park or plaza, headquarters for city departments, courthouses, and often a post office, public-utility offices, public health facilities, and government offices. 28. Community separator - In urban planning in the United States, a community separator (or simply a separator) is a parcel of undeveloped land, sometimes in the form of open space, separating two or more urban areas under different municipal jurisdictions which has been designated to provide a permanent low-density area preserving the communal integrity of the two municipalities. Separators are typically created by one or more municipalities in situations of rapid urban growth, where unchecked development might otherwise result in the contiguity of the urban areas. A unilateral separator that partially or completely encircles a municipality is commonly known as a greenbelt.

29. Commuter town - A commuter town is an urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood. Many commuter towns act as suburbs of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily, and many suburbs are commuter towns. Commuter towns belong to the metropolitan area of a city, and a ring of commuter towns around an urban area is known as a commuter belt. 30. Comprehensive planning - Comprehensive planning is a term used in the United States by land use planners to describe a process that determines community goals and aspirations in terms of community development. The outcome of comprehensive planning is the Comprehensive Plan which dictates public policy in terms of transportation, utilities, land use, recreation, and housing. Comprehensive plans typically encompass large geographical areas, a broad range of topics, and cover a long-term time horizon.