Types

Shopping centers located underground, typically in an urban environment and often in association with underground subway stations or underground pedestrian passages between and under streets.

Structures constructed wholly or mostly beneath the surface of the ground.

Grade separations where clearance to traffic on the upper level is obtained by depressing partially or completely the grade of the lower level.

Building used for union gatherings.

Railroad stations or terminals at which tracks and facilities are shared by two or more railway companies, allowing passengers and freight to connect conveniently between them.

Buildings or groups of buildings that house degree-granting institutions which may typically include liberal arts undergraduate colleges, graduate schools, and undergraduate or graduate professional schools.

Degree-granting institutions that may include liberal arts undergraduate colleges, graduate schools, and undergraduate or graduate professional schools.

Buildings housing universities or colleges.

Communities, relatively large in size, that are the location of a university, which is a type of degree-granting institution.

Areas within city limits or closely linked to them by common use of public utilities or services.

Refers to the condition of urban areas characterized by general deterioration in the quality of existing buildings and infrastructural systems, often caused by adverse economic, environmental, or zoning forces.

Forests comprised of the aggregate of all trees and associated vegatation found in and around a given urban area, including both individual street and park trees, and groupings of trees, whether on public lands such as greenways, or on private property.

Settlement areas lying at the periphery of cities or suburbs where urban land uses meet rural land uses.

Landscapes with densely built-up districts and settlement areas and with distinctive skylines.

Small parks serving central business districts, highly urban areas (including new towns), or commercial districts.

Long term planning for additions and improvements to the spatial organization and content of urban areas. It concerns planning for interaction between people, businesses, government, transportation infrastructure, mass transit, water and power infrastructure, pollution, waste management, and other broad and long term interests in an urban setting. For the overall management of urban areas, encompassing the setting of objectives for urban life, the establishment of policies, and the planning, development, operation, and maintenance of the urban environment and services, use "urban management." For the field concerned with designing the specific appearance and function of cities, use “urban design.”

Activity of clearing, rebuilding, restoring, or refurbishing urban areas.

Generic designation for divisions of an urban area.

Generally, transportation in urban areas, whether by transit systems or private means.

Buildings that house universities located in and serving urban communities, although not necessarily maintained by municipalities.

Mixed-use communities designed to combine residential sections in close proximity to employment, retail, and entertainment facilities linked by pedestrian-oriented thoroughfares; often located in suburban contexts.

Term applied to a group of Frank Lloyd Wright's small, single-family houses constructed during the late 1930s and early 1940s and generally characterized by low cost, natural materials, open planning, and a close relationship between the building and the site and climate. The term was coined by the architect.

Rooms designed or used to house heating, laundry, or general maintenance equipment.

No description is available for this term.

Places of ideal perfection, especially with regard to laws, government, and social conditions.