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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.

Cities

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Activity Center
Air Rights
Architecture
Automation
Bicycle Boulevard
Blue Space
Brownfields
Business Cluster
Cities
City Branding
City Culture
City Issues
Clean Air Zone
Cosmopolitan City
Creeping Normality
Cycle Highway
Cycling Infra.
Deep Water Cooling
District Heating
Density
Emergent Cities
Fashion Capital
Fashion Week
Freedom To Roam
Genius Loci
Geofencing
Ghost Spaces
Green Facades
Green Roofs
Green Walls
Happiness Index
High-Speed Rail
Hostile Architecture
Human Factors
Human Scale
Induced Traffic
Last Mile
Lighting
Living Street
Natural Surveillance
Night Architecture
Night Economy
Placemaking
Play Street
Public Infrastructure
Public Space
Quality Of Life
Rain Garden
Resilient Cities
Robot Highways
Security Landscaping
Slow Cities
Smart Cities
Soft Engineering
Sponge City
Street Canyon
Superblocks
Tactical Urbanism
Transition Design
Transportation
Urban Agriculture
Urban Density
Urban Design
Urban Forests
Urban Planning
Vehicles
Vertical Cities
Vertical Farming
Vertical Gardens
Woonerf
Zoning
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