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UQTR Patriotes The UQTR Patriotes are the athletic teams that represent the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. The team name honors the historical Patriotes and their movement that lead, during the 19th century, a rebellion for democracy and independence for Quebec (then called Lower Canada).
Ur Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, located near the mouth (at the time) of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. It is considered to be the earliest known civilization in world history.
Ur (continent) Ur is the name of the first known continent that probably formed 3 billion years ago in the early Archean Eon. Ur joined with the continents Nena and Atlantica about one billion years ago to form the supercontinent Rodinia.
Ur 1830BC Ur 1830BC is game of irrigation and kingdom management in ancient Mesopotamia, loosely adapted from the 18XX series of railroad operations and share trading board games, designed by by Jeroen Doumen and Joris Wiersinga and published by Splotter Spellen. As with all games in the 18XX series, play centers around ownership of valuable networks.
Ur Kasdim Ur Kaśdim or Ur of the Chaldees is the town in the Hebrew Bible and related literature where Abraham was said to have been born. The traditional site of Abraham's birth is in the vicinity of Edessa although 19th century scholars identified Ur Kaśdim with the Sumerian city of Ur, a view that is still widely accepted today.
Ur- Ur- is a German prefix meaning "prot(o)-", "first", "oldest", "original" when used with a noun. In combination with an adjective, it can be translated as the intensifier "very".
Ur-grue An Ur-grue is an evil god of darkness from the Zork universe, featured in the game Beyond Zork. The game materials describe it as the progenitor and ruler of the monstrous race of grues -- the term "Ur-grue" combines the German prefix ur- for "original" and "grue" -- as well as the source of many other evil monsters.
Ur-organism "Ur-organism" is the term loosely given to the hypothetical "first life" species, from which all other life presumably evolved. The term was used first by Charles Darwin, and has been picked up by various subsequent thinkers addressing the same questions of origin of species.
Urabe no Suetake Urabe no Suetake a retainer of the legendary hero Minamoto no Yorimitsu (who can also be referred to as RaikĹŤ) supposedly during the Heian period of the 12th century of Japan. Suetake assisted RaikĹŤ throughout his life, being referred to as one of The Four Guardian Kings under RaikĹŤ.
Urad (bean) Urad, also referred to as the urd bean, urd, urid, black gram, black lentil or white lentil (Vigna mungo) is a bean grown in southern Asia. It is largely used to make dal from the whole or split, dehusked seeds.
Uradel The German term Uradel (literally: original or ancient feudal nobility) refers to nobility who can trace back their noble ancestry at least to the year 1400 and probably originates from leadership positions during the Migration Period.
Uraeus The Uraeus (plural Uraei or Uraeuses) is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian spitting cobra (or snake / serpent / asp), used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in ancient Egypt. Uraeus is a Greek word that may have its origins in ancient Egyptian, meaning "she who rears up".
Uragami Gyokudo Uragami Gyokudo (1745 - October 10, 1820) was a Japanese musician, painter, and calligrapher. In his lifetime, he was best known as a player of the zither, but people came to appreciate his paintings after his death.
Uraidla, South Australia Uraidla () is a small town in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Australia, with a population of 440 (1996 census). Once the home of the Peramangk Aboriginal people, European settlement commenced in the mid nineteenth century, a primary school opened in 1871 and the town formally established in the 1880s.
Urairat Soimee Urairat Soimee (1968 - May 2006) was a victim of human trafficking in Japan. She was from Phetchabun's Lom Sak district in Thailand and had lived in Yokkaichi, a town in the Mie Prefecture of Japan, where she was forced into prostitution.
Urakami Urakami, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, is a suburb in Nagasaki, the exact ground zero where the atomic bomb exploded on August 9, 1945. It was the site of Urakami Cathedral, then the largest cathedral in the East.
Urakami clan Urakami clan a Japanese clan that primarily consisted at Bizen Province throughout the course of the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. One major turn of events that took place for the Urakami was through the death of Urakami Norimune folloowing the year of 1502.
Ural bomber The Ural bomber was a program to develop a long-range bomber for the Luftwaffe, created and led by General Walter Wever in the early 1930s. Weaver died in an air crash in 1936, and the program ended almost immediately.
Ural characters Ural characters (Russian: уральские писаницы) are characters of unknown origin, made with the use of ochre, probably mixed up with blood in Ural along the coasts of Tagil River, Neyva River, Rezh River and Yurozan River. The color of characters however is different, varying from the light shades to lilac and brown, while the thickness is between 10 and 20 mm.
Ural Ocean Ural Ocean was a small, ancient ocean that was situated between Siberia and Baltica. The ocean formed in the Late Ordovician epoch, when large islands from Siberia collided with Baltica, which was now part of a minor supercontinent of Euramerica.
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra Ural Philharmonic Orchestra (UPO, in russian Уральский академический филармонический оркестр, УАФО) is a full orchestra based in Yekaterinburg (former Sverdlovsk, Russia) and considered to be one of the major and best orchestras in Russia and in Europe.
Ural State Technical University The Ural State Technical University (formerly Ural Polytechnic Institute) is a higher education institute in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. It is the biggest technical institution of higher education in Russia, with close ties to local industry in the Urals.
Ural State University Ural State University (Russian: Уральский государственный университет, often abbreviated USU, УрГУ) is situated in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. It was founded in 1920 as an exclusive educational establishment constituted of several institutes (educational and scientific divisions) which later became independent universities and schools.
Ural-Altaic languages The Ural-Altaic language family (also Uralo-Altaic) is an hypothetical grouping of the Uralic and Altaic language families into one field. The word Turanian has also been used to describe the Ural-Altaic field.
Ural-Siberian method The so called Ural-Siberian Method was an extraordinary measure launched in the Soviet Union in 1927/28 for the collection of grain from the countryside. Placed in the backdrop of the famine of 1927 which resulted from the ‘scissors’ crisis’ of the mid 1920s, the Soviets utilized forced grain requisitioning through the arrest of private traders, the closing of markets and arrest of suspected kulaks (real or imagined).
Uralian orogenic belt The Uralian orogenic belt is usually thought of as the boundary between Europe and Asia. It extends from the Aral Sea to Novaya Zemlya, and it includes the Ural Mountains, the Pay-Khoy Ridge, and the Mughalzhar Hills of northwest Kazakhstan.
Uralian orogeny The Uralian orogeny refers to the long series of geological events that raised the Ural Mountains, starting in the Late Carboniferous and Permian periods of the Palaeozoic Era, ca. 318-299 and 299-251 Mya, and ending with the last series of continental collisions in Triassic to early Jurassic times.
Uralic languages The Uralic languages (pronounced: ) form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. The name of the language family refers to the location of the family’s suggested Urheimat (homeland), which is often placed close to the Ural mountains.
Uralic peoples The term Uralic peoples is used to describe peoples speaking a Uralic language. Uralic peoples are divided into two groups: Finno-Ugric peoples (including Hungarians, Finns, and Estonians) and Samoyedic peoples (including Nenets).
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA) or Finno-Ugric transcription system is a phonetic transcription or notational system used predominantly for the transcription of Finno-Ugric languages. It was first published in 1901 by Emil Nestor Setälä, a Finnish linguist.
Uralic-Yukaghir languages Uralic-Yukaghir (or Uralo-Yukaghir) is a hypothetical language family that attempts to relate Yukaghir, a group of dialects spoken in Siberia, with Uralic, a much larger and popular language family to which Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian belong. Uralic is subdivided into two main branches -- Samoyedic and Finno-Ugric.
Uralla, New South Wales Uralla is a small town and a Local Government Area (Uralla Shire ) in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia Uralla is located on the New England Highway about 500 kilometres north of Sydney and about 20 kilometers south west of the city of ArmidaleGeographical Names Board of New South Wales.
Uralo-Siberian languages Uralo-Siberian is a hypothetical language family consisting of Uralic, Yukaghir, Chukotko-Kamchatkan and Eskimo-Aleut. Most linguists still consider this theory speculative and its evidence insufficient to conclusively prove genetic affiliation.
Urals Academy of Architecture Urals Academy of Architecture (Ural State Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture; Russian: Уральская государственная архитектурно-художественная академия, often abbreviated USAAA or in russian УрГАХА) is situated in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. It was founded in 1947 as a department of architecture at the Ural State Technical University.
Urambo Urambo is one of the six districts of the Tabora Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by the Shinyanga Region, to the east by the Uyui District, to the southeast by the Sikonge District, to the southwest by the Rukwa Region, and to the west by the Kigoma Region.
Uranai Baba Uranai Baba (literally All-seeing Crone) is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z manga and anime series. She appears for the first time in the Fortuneteller Baba Saga in Dragon Ball, and after that she shows up in anime fillers and rarely from time to time.
Urania In Greek mythology, Urania ("heavenly") was the muse of astronomy and astrology. She is usually depicted as having a globe in her left hand and a peg in the right, and her foot on a turtle, symbol of silence.
Urania Award The Urania Award (known in Italian as the Premio Urania) is an annual literary competition run by the Italian magazine Urania for contemporary Italian science fiction novels. It was held for the first time in 1989.
Uranian astrology Uranian astrology is a modern form of astrology based on teachings of German surveyor/astrologer Alfred Witte (1878-1941), founder of the Hamburg School of Astrology. Witte revived and further developed the use of mathematical midpoints for precise astrological analysis and prediction.
Uranian poetry The Uranians were a small and somewhat clandestine group of English pederastic poets (many of whom were university graduates of Oxford or Cambridge), a group writing between 1858 (when William Johnson Cory published Ionica) and 1930. Their name is commonly believed to derive from the work of the German theorist and campaigner Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in the 1860s, with the name later taken up by John Addington Symonds and others who rendered it as 'Uranian'.
Uraniidae The Uraniidae are a family of moths containing four subfamilies, ninety genera, and roughly seven-hundred species. Some tropical species are known for their bright, butterfly-like colors and are called sunset moths (for example Chrysiridia rhipheus).
Uraninite Uraninite is a uranium-rich mineral with a composition that is largely UO2 (uranium dioxide), but which also contains UO3 and oxides of lead, thorium, and rare earths. It is most commonly known in the variety pitchblende (from pitch, because of its black color, and blende, a term used by German miners to denote minerals whose weight suggested metal content, but whose exploitation was, at the time they were named, either impossible or not economically feasible).
Uranium carbide Uranium carbide, a carbide of uranium, is a hard refractive ceramic material. It comes in several stoichiometries (x), such as uranium monocarbide (UC, CAS number ), uranium sesquicarbide (U2C3, CAS number ), and uranium dicarbide (UC2, CAS number ).
Uranium carbonate Uranium (uranyl) carbonate, UO2(CO3), is a carbonate of uranium that forms the backbone of several uranyl mineral species such as Andersonite, McKelveyite and Wyartite and most importantly Rutherfordine. It is also found in both the mineral and organic fractions of coal and its fly ash and is the main component of uranium in mine tailing seepage water.
Uranium hexafluoride Uranium hexafluoride (UF6) referred to as "hex" in industry, is a compound used in the uranium enrichment process that produces fuel for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. It forms solid grey crystals at standard temperature and pressure (STP), is highly toxic, reacts violently with water and is corrosive to most metals.
Uranium market The uranium market, like all commodity markets, has a history of volatility, moving not only with the standard forces of supply and demand, but also to whims of geopolitics. It has also evolved particularities of its own in response to the unique nature and use of this material.
Uranium mining controversy in Kakadu National Park Kakadu National Park, located in the Northern Territory of Australia, possesses within its boundaries a number of large uranium deposits. The uranium is legally owned by the Australian Government, and is sold internationally.
Uranium Medical Research Centre The Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1997 to provide objective and expert scientific and medical research into the effects of uranium, transuranium elements, and radionuclides produced by the process of radioactive decay and fission. UMRC is also a registered charity in the United States and Canada.
Uranium rhodium germanium Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, published in August, 2005's issue of Science, that uranium rhodium germanium (URhGe) is the first discovered metal that becomes superconducting in the presence of an extremely strong electromagnetic field. Very unlike other superconducting materials, whose superconducting properties can be lost due to strong magnetic fields, uranium rhodium germanium actually regains superconducting abilities at about 8 teslas.
Uranium tailings Uranium tailings are a biproduct of uranium mining. In mining, the uranium and its decay products that are buried deep underground are brought to the surface, and the uranium ore containing them is crushed into a fine sand.
Uranium tetrafluoride Uranium tetrafluoride (UF4) is a green crystalline solid compound of uranium with an insignificant vapor pressure and very slight solubility in water. Uranium in its tetravalent (uranous) state is very important in different technological processes.
Uranium-238 Uranium-238 (U-238), is the most common isotope of uranium found in nature. When hit by a neutron, it becomes uranium-239 (U-239), an unstable element which decays into neptunium-239 (Np-239), which then itself decays, with a half-life of 2.
Uranium-thorium dating Uranium-thorium dating, also called thorium-230 dating, uranium-series disequilibrium dating or uranium-series dating, is a radiometric dating technique commonly used to determine the age of carbonate materials such as speleothem or coral. Unlike other commonly used radiometric dating techniques such as rubidium-strontium or uranium-lead dating, the uranium-thorium technique does not measure accumulation of a stable end-member decay product, instead calculating an age from the degree to which equilibrium has been restored between the radioactive isotope thorium-230 and its radioactive parent uranium-234 within a sample.
Uranium-uranium dating Uranium-uranium dating is a radiometric dating technique utilizing the comparison of two isotopes of uranium (U) in a sample: 238U and 234U. 234U/238U dating is one of several radiometric dating techniques exploiting the uranium radioactive decay series, in which 238U undergoes 14 alpha and beta decay events while decaying to the stable isotope 206Pb.
Uranocene Uranocene U(C8H8)2 is the most notable cyclooctatetraenide of the f elements, and one of the first organouranium compounds to be synthesized. Uranocene is a member of the actinocenes, a group of metallocenes incorporating elements from the actinide series.
Uranography (disambiguation) Uranography (celestial cartography) is the branch of astronomy concerned with mapping the stars, galaxies, or other celestial bodies. The term uranography is derived from the Greek ouranos (sky) and -graphy (writing about a specified subject).
Uranous Uranous is the chemical term for the reduced tetrapositive cation of uranium that exhibits the valence U4+. It is one of the two common ionic states of uranium found in nature, the other being the oxidised hexapositive ion called uranyl.
Uranyl fluoride Uranyl fluoride (UO2F2) a compound of uranium ,is an intermediate in the conversion of uranium hexafluoride UF6 to an uranium oxide or metal form and is a direct product of the reaction of UO2F2 with moisture in the air. It is very soluble in water.
Uranyl hydroxide Uranyl hydroxide is a hydroxide of uranium with the chemical formula UO2(OH)2 in the monomeric form and (UO2)2(OH)2 in the dimeric; both isomers may exist in normal aqueous media. Uranyl hydroxide hydrate is precipitated as a colloidal yellowcake from oxidized uranium liquors near neutral pH.
Uranyl peroxide Uranyl peroxide or Uranium peroxide hydrate (UO4·nH2O) is a pale-yellow, soluble peroxide of uranium. It is found present at one stage of the enriched uranium fuel cycle and in yellowcake prepared via the in situ leaching and resin ion exchange system.
Urarina The Urarina are an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon (Loreto) who inhabit the Chambira, Urituyacu, and Corrientes Rivers. According to both archaeological and historical sources, we know that they have resided in the Chambira Basin of contemporary northeastern Peru for centuries Myers, Thomas P.
Urartu Urartu (Biainili in Urartian) was an ancient kingdom in the mountainous plateau between Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and Caucasus mountains, later known as the Armenian Highland, and it centered around Lake Van (present-day eastern Turkey). The kingdom existed from about 1000 BC, or earlier, until 585 BC.
Urawa, Saitama Urawa (浦和市; -shi) used to be a distinct city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, until it merged into the city of Saitama together with two other cities, Omiya and Yono, on May 1, 2001. In 2003 Urawa's area was sectored into Urawa-ku (浦和区), Midori-ku, Minami-ku and Sakura-ku which are wards of Saitama City.
Urayuli Urayuli, or "Hairy Men", are a mythical race of creatures that live in the woodland areas of southwestern Alaska. Stories of the Urayuli describe them as standing 10 feet tall with long shaggy fur and luminescent eyes.
Urban and regional planning Urban and regional planning is generally accepted as an academic discipline centred upon studies of urbanism in geography. The regional component is the study of how cities that co-exist in the same regional area interact with one another, such as economic co-operation, civic ties and travel to work arrangements.
Urban areas of New Zealand Statistics New Zealand defines New Zealand urban areas for statistical purposes. The urban areas comprise cities, towns and other 'conurbations' (an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities) of a thousand people or more.
Urban art promotions Several cities have featured promotions in which an organization provides a theme and unfinished fiberglass models to artists, and those artists decorate them. The pieces are then displayed throughout the area, in front of businesses and so forth, then auctioned, with the proceeds being given to a charity.
Urban Adult Contemporary Airplay panel The R&R Adult R&B panel is a list of Adult R&B stations that are monitored by Nielsen BDS. The stations are ranked by the highest audience cumes based on Arbitron ratings and are modified twice a year.
Urban Alliance Foundation The Urban Alliance Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating in Washington, DC. Often referred to as Urban Alliance, or just UA, their mission is to prepare young adults from under-resourced areas in DC for the world of work and a life of self-sufficiency, through education, mentoring, and meaningful paid internships.
Urban Arcana Urban Arcana is a campaign setting for the d20 Modern roleplaying game that builds on small campaign model included in the original rulebook. It adds much in the way of magic and monsters to the game, and contains rules for things such as playing Shadowkind characters.
Urban Artillery Urban Artillery is a Los Angeles-based band founded by Jeff Hollie (Frank Zappa, Burning Sensations, Bonedaddys) and Steve Young (Beef Box, Urban Artillery, Q Styles Infinity). Their overall sound has been described as a cross between George Clinton and Rage Against the Machine.
Urban beach An urban beach, or urbeach, is a place in the downtown core of a city that has a water feature that people can use to cool off on hot days. However, unlike a waterpark where people go specifically to splash around, an urban beach is a multi-use space, where informal aquatic play activities intermix with more formal civic culture, such as business executives reading their newspapers, etc..
Urban blight Blight is a "condition of property or the uses of property in parts of a city, town, or neighborhood that are detrimental to the physical, social, and/or economic well-being of a community. It can include abandoned buildings or those severely neglected by their owners, vacant lots full of rubble and waste, or dangerous and/or illegal uses such as crack houses.
Urban climate Urban climate refers to climatic conditions in an urban area that differ from neighboring rural areas and are attributable to urban development. Urbanization tremendously changes the form of the landscape and also produces changes in an area's air.
Urban contemporary The term urban contemporary was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap music, contemporary R&B, and, on occasion, Caribbean music such as reggae, soca and reggaeton.
Urban Carmichael Urban Carmichael, (died February 13, 2006), was a well-known entertainer from Prince Edward Island, Canada. With his signature hat and red-check jacket, he was a font of down-home humor and an expert storyteller.
Urban Center The Urban Center is a gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City (USA), which is run by the Municipal Art Society (MAS). The gallery serves to champion the fields of urban planning and design in New York, and is also the site of MAS' community development workshops, seminars, lectures, and other educational programs.
Urban Comatose Urban Comatose is musician Kyle Ward's most recent album and features a diverse tracklist, featuring songs credited to several of Kyle's musical aliases (pseudonyms) Online CD store CD Baby describes the album as follows:
Urban Community of Marseille Provence Métropole The Urban Community of Marseille Provence Métropole (French: Communauté Urbaine Marseille Provence Métropole) is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Marseille (in Provence, southern France) and some of its suburbs.
Urban Community of Strasbourg The Urban Community of Strasbourg (French: Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg), also known by its French initials CUS, is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Strasbourg (France) and some of its suburbs.
Urban Contemporary Airplay panel The R&R Urban Contemporary Airplay panel is a list of Mainstream Urban radio stations that are monitored by Nielsen BDS. The stations are ranked by the highest audience cumes based on Arbitron ratings and are modified twice a year.
Urban Council Centenary Garden The Urban Council Centenary Garden (Chinese: 市政局百周年紀念公園) is a public park in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was named to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the establishment of the Urban Council.
Urban Council, Hong Kong The Urban Council (UrbCo, ) was a municipal council in Hong Kong responsible for municipal services on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon (including New Kowloon). These services were provided by the Urban Services Department.
Urban Cowboy (musical) Urban Cowboy is a musical with a book by Aaron Latham and Phillip Oesterman and a score comprised of numbers by Broadway composer-lyricists Jeff Blumenkrantz and Jason Robert Brown and a variety of country music tunesmiths, including Clint Black, Shania Twain, and Charles Daniels.
Urban decay Urban decay is a process by which a city, or a part of a city, falls into a state of disrepair. It is characterised by depopulation, property abandonment, high unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate and unfriendly urban landscape.
Urban district In the British Isles an urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected Urban District Council (UDC), which shared local government responsibilities with a county council.
Urban districts of Germany This is a list of urban districts in Germany. Germany is divided into 439 districts (not to be confused with the larger Regierungsbezirk); these consist of 323 rural districts (Landkreise, see List of German rural districts) and 116 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte / Stadtkreise) - cities which constitute a district in their own right.
Urban Dead Urban Dead is an HTML/text-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Kevan Davis. Set in a quarantined region of the fictional city of Malton, it deals with the immediate aftermath of a zombie outbreak.
Urban Debate League The Urban Debate League (UDL) is a group of high school policy debate teams from urban high schools. Because each school may have a number of individual teams, there can be a very large number of students who have participated in an urban debate league.
Urban Decay (cosmetics) Urban Decay is an American cosmetics company founded in 1996 by David Soward, Wende Zomnir, and Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems. The brand is primarily sold in mid to high-end beauty stores, such as Ulta and Sephora.
Urban Development Authority The Urban Development Authority (Malay: Perbadanan Pembangunan Bandar; commonly abbreviated as UDA) is an agency of the government of Malaysia. It serves to launch and oversee urban development projects related to business, industry, and housing.
Urban ecology Urban ecology is the subfield of ecology which deals with the interaction of plants, animals and humans with each other and with their environment in urban or urbanizing settings. Analysis of urban settings in the context of ecosystem ecology (looking at the cycling of matter and the flow of energy through the ecosystem) can result in healthier, better managed communities.
Urban economics Urban Economics is a branch of Microeconomics that studies the location of households and firms. While other forms of economics do not account for spatial relationships between individuals and organizations, urban economics focuses on these spatial relationships to understand the economic motivations underlying the formation, functioning, and development of cities.
Urban exploration Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE) is the examination of the normally unseen or off-limits parts of human civilization. Urban exploration is also commonly referred to as infiltration, although some people consider infiltration to be more closely associated with the exploration of active or inhabited sites.
Urban Enterprise Zone Urban Enterprise Zones (UEZs) also known as Enterprise Zones encourage development in blighted neighborhoods by offering entrepreneurs and investors tax and regulatory relief if they start businesses in the area. In other countries, a region that offers this type of special economic incentives is often referred to as a Special Economic Zone.
Urban fabric The generic term for the physical aspect of urbanism, emphasizing building types, thoroughfares, open space, frontages, and streetscapes; while excluding without prejudice to this useful term, environmental, functional, economic and sociocultural aspects.
Urban fantasy Urban fantasy is a subset of contemporary fantasy, consisting of magical novels and stories set in contemporary, real-world, urban settings -- as opposed to 'traditional' fantasy set in wholly imaginary landscapes, even ones containing imaginary cities, or having most of their action take place in them.
Urban fiction Urban fiction is a literary genre set, as the name implies, in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the race and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city life, and the characters tend to be African-American or Latino.
Urban field The urban field is a form of urban habitat of relatively high density involving a good transportation system and a broad array of economic, social and recreational opportunities. Even though the sections of the urban field may still be in agricultural use, the area is nonetheless urbanized because anywhere within it a person is able to connect his/her home to telephones, radio and television facilities, electricity, gas, water supply systems and a network of freeway and primary roads.
Urban forestry Urban forestry is the care and management of tree populations in urban settings for the purpose of improving the urban environment. Urban forestry advocates the role of trees as a critical part of the urban infrastructure.

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