| urban renewal | the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
city planning
town planning
urban planning | determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community |
| urban planning | the branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities |
| urban legend | a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false, contains elements of humor or horror and is popularly believed to be true |
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing and Urban Development
HUD | the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal, created in |
administrative district
administrative division
territorial division | a district defined for administrative purposes |
borderland
border district
march
marchland | district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area, the Welsh marches between England and Wales |
| district line | the boundary between two districts |
city
metropolis
urban center | a large and densely populated urban area, may include several independent administrative districts, Ancient Troy was a great city |
| city district | a district of a town or city |
voting precinct
election district | one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting, each contains one polling place |
business district
downtown | the central area or commercial center of a town or city, the heart of Birmingham's downtown |
conurbation
urban sprawl
sprawl | an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities |
| congressional district | a territorial division of a state, entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives |
district
territory
territorial dominion
dominion | a region marked off for administrative or other purposes |
| federal district | a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation |
residential district
residential area
community | a district where people live, occupied primarily by private residences |
| red-light district | a district with many brothels |
| tenement district | a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses |
| school district | a district whose public schools are administered together |
urban area
populated area | a geographical area constituting a city or town |
Lake District
Lakeland | a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain |
District of Columbia
D.C.
DC | the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington, chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia |
continental slope
bathyal zone
bathyal district | the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone |
district attorney
DA | an official prosecutor for a judicial district |
| district manager | a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was Robert C. Weaver who was appointed by Johnson |
| urban guerrilla | a guerrilla who fights only in cities and towns |
Urban II
Odo
Odo of Lagery
Otho
Otho of Lagery | French pope fromtowhose sermons called for the First Crusade (-) |
Urban V
Guillaume de Grimoard | French pope from towho tried to reestablish the papacy in Rome but in returned to Avignon hoping to end the war between France and England, canonized in(-) |
Urban VI
Bartolomeo Prignano | Italian pope from to whose contested election began the Great Schism, he alienated his political allies by his ruthless treatment of his opponents (-) |
Urban VIII
Maffeo Barberini | Italian pope from to who sanctioned the condemnation of Galileo but later freed him (-) |
murine typhus
rat typhus
urban typhus
endemic typhus | acute infection caused by rickettsia and transmitted by the bite of an infected flea, characterized by fever and chills and muscle aches and a rash |
zone
district | regulate housing in, of certain areas of towns |
| urban | located in or characteristic of a city or city life, urban property owners, urban affairs, urban manners |
| urban | relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area, urban sociology, urban development |