Urban Design and Planning-II - ARCH 3122 Chapter 1 Quiz

Louis Wirth defines a city as a relative large dense and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals, while Lewis Mumford defines it as a point of maximum concentration for the power and culture of a community.

Urbanization is the process that leads to an increasing number of people living in large, dense, and non-agricultural settlements. It occurs either through an increase in the number of urban places or through an increase in the size of the population.

Urban planning influences and is influenced by physical, social, economic, environmental, and political aspects of development.

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