Smart City Dispatch · Glossary
City
A dense human settlement governed, administered, or statistically identified as an urban place. There is no single universal legal definition. For international comparison, the Degree of Urbanisation method identifies an urban centre using population-density and population-size thresholds and then classifies local units according to where their residents live.
City
A dense human settlement governed, administered, or statistically identified as an urban place. There is no single universal legal definition. For international comparison, the Degree of Urbanisation method identifies an urban centre using population-density and population-size thresholds and then classifies local units according to where their residents live.
Smart-city relevance: The physical and administrative boundary chosen for a city changes every metric: population, emissions, mobility, service coverage, and economic output.
Related: Urban area; municipality; functional urban area; metropolitan area