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Cities are large human settlements. Their relative size allows cities to offer significant infrastructure and a wide variety of public space and commercial services that may improve the quality of life of residents. It is also common for cities to be saturated with a single type of land use such as highways, roads, parking and other automobile infrastructure. The following list is designed to illustrate the great variety that is possible in cities.
Airports | Alleyways | Ambulance Stations | Apartment Buildings | Aquariums | Arcades | Art Galleries | Avenues | Bakeries | Banks | Barber Shops & Beauty Salons | Bed & Breakfasts | Bicycle Rentals | Billboards | Blue Roofs | Blue Space | Bookstores | Boulevards | Bowling Alleys | Bridges | Brownfield Sites | Bus Stops | Cafes | Canals | Castles | City Hall | City Walls | Clinics | Colleges | Community Centers | Community Gardens | Concert Halls | Condominiums | Construction Sites | Convenience Stores | Courts | Cycle Highways | Dentists | Department Stores | Docks | Doctor's Offices | Drainage Infrastructure | Dry Cleaners | Electric Grids | Embassies | Factories | Fire Hydrants | Fire Stations | Flower Shops | Garbage Facilities | Gardens | Ghost Spaces | Government Buildings | Green Roofs | Green Space | Green Walls | Grocery Stores | Gyms | Harbors | High Speed Rail | Highways | Historical Buildings / Sites | Hospitals | Hotels | Houses | Karaoke | Landmarks | Laundromats | Libraries | Linear Parks | Markets | Mixed-use Buildings | Mixed-use Streets | Monuments | Movie Theatres | Museums | Nature Reserves | Newspaper Offices | Night Architecture | Nightclubs | Nursery Schools & Daycare Centers | Nursing Homes | Observatories | Office Buildings | Opera Houses | Outdoor Seating | Palaces | Parking / Bicycle Parking | Parks | Patisserie | Pedestrian Infrastructure | Performance Theatres | Pharmacists | Places of Worship (e.g. Churches) | Play Streets | Playgrounds | Police Stations | Ports | Post Offices | Prisons & Jails | Product Showrooms | Public Baths | Public Squares | Public Toilets | Pubs & Bars | Radio Stations | Recreation Facilities | Remarkable Architecture | Restaurants | Rivers & Streams | Schools | Sewer System | Shopping Malls | Shopping Streets | Shops | Sidewalks | Signs | Skating Rinks | Skyscrapers | Spas | Sports Facilities | Stadiums | Street Art | Street Food | Street Lights | Street Vendors | Streets | Subway Stations | Superblocks | Swimming Pools | Taxi Stands | Technology Infrastructure | Television Stations | Tennis Courts | Theme Parks | Towers | Traffic Lights | Train Lines | Train Stations | Trees | Universities | Urban Farms | Urban Forests | Vending Machines | Vertical Parks | Visitor Centers | Void Decks | Water Pipes | Water Towers | Waterfront | Woonerf | Zoos |
Brownfield sites are abandoned commercial or industrial sites that are polluted such that a city may be stuck with the bill to clean them up. These may sit undeveloped for many years or decades.Green roofs are roofs that have vegetation such as a garden. Green walls are walls covered in plants.Mixed-use buildings integrate offices, residential, commercial, green space and cultural space in order to make everything you need highly walkable.
Mixed-use streets force cars to go slowly in order to use the street for other purposes such as recreation.Night architecture is how a building or city look at night.Play streets are streets that are designed to be safely used as a playground.Superblocks are very large city blocks with no internal streets or roads such that only pedestrians can navigate their features.A woonerf is a particular type and culture of mixed-use streets.
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