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A newspaper article on subsidized housing by an Argentine urban planner:
La decisión de dónde construir la vivienda subsidiada es una importante herramienta de política territorial. Si esas decisiones van a acentuar los patrones de concentración en los grandes conos urbanos de las ciudades más importantes es por la dificultad de redireccionar necesidades que ya se han localizado en ellas.
I would say "metropolitan areas" but it speaks of conos urbano as within "la ciudades más importantes"
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La decisión de dónde construir la vivienda subsidiada es una importante herramienta de política territorial. Si esas decisiones van a acentuar los patrones de concentración en los grandes conos urbanos de las ciudades más importantes es por la dificultad de redireccionar necesidades que ya se han localizado en ellas.
I would say "metropolitan areas" but it speaks of conos urbano as within "la ciudades más importantes"
thanks
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| 5 | Urban area |
Brenden Gerber
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| 4 | conurbations |
Lee Shotton
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| 4 | Urban centers |
Roberto Rey
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| 3 | suburbs |
Jane Martin
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Brenden Gerber
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Urban area
An urban area is different than a city. Click the link and it describes it pretty well. Basically, a city is a definition of a geographic area (in legal terms), where as urban area is based not on legal boundaries but rather population boundries. A city will have one population which will be smaller than the population of the urban area of that same city. This is because the urban area will include all of the outward expansion.
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suburbs
or possibly conurbations but this word is not used much.
conurbation /ˌkɒnɜːˈbeɪʃən/ n
a large densely populated urban sprawl formed by the growth and coalescence of individual towns or cities
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/conurbation
Tanto para la geografía como para el urbanismo, los términos "conurbación" y "conurbano" tienen que ver con el proceso y el resultado del crecimiento de varias ciudades (una o varias de las cuales puede encabezar al grupo) que se pueden integrar para formar un solo sistema que suele estar jerarquizado, o bien las distintas unidades que lo componen pueden mantener su independencia funcional y dinámica.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conurbación
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Sorry, forgot to put in that it seems to be synonymous with conurbo
cono urbano
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Extrarradio de una ciudad:
el cono urbano de Buenos Aires es uno de los de mayor extensión de América.
También conurbano.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/spanish/cono
https://ar.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200611151009...
conurbation /ˌkɒnɜːˈbeɪʃən/ n
a large densely populated urban sprawl formed by the growth and coalescence of individual towns or cities
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/conurbation
Tanto para la geografía como para el urbanismo, los términos "conurbación" y "conurbano" tienen que ver con el proceso y el resultado del crecimiento de varias ciudades (una o varias de las cuales puede encabezar al grupo) que se pueden integrar para formar un solo sistema que suele estar jerarquizado, o bien las distintas unidades que lo componen pueden mantener su independencia funcional y dinámica.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conurbación
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Note added at 27 mins (2015-03-05 15:10:27 GMT)
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Sorry, forgot to put in that it seems to be synonymous with conurbo
cono urbano
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Extrarradio de una ciudad:
el cono urbano de Buenos Aires es uno de los de mayor extensión de América.
También conurbano.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/spanish/cono
https://ar.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200611151009...
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conurbations
I quite like your suggestion of "metropolitan areas" to be honest, but "conurbations" is another option. As far as I'm aware, "conurbano" (i.e. "cono urbano") and "conurbación" are synonymous.
I read your source sentence not as saying these areas are within the city, but rather they're "of" the cities – you can talk about the conurbations of London and Birmingham here in the UK, for example.
I read your source sentence not as saying these areas are within the city, but rather they're "of" the cities – you can talk about the conurbations of London and Birmingham here in the UK, for example.
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