city center
Sign in to saveAlso known as downtown area, city centre, central city, urban core, city core, town center, town centre, hub
commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart of a city
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Within Vinony's link graph, city center is referenced by 384 other articles, and connects out to administrative centre, central business district and United States.
It sits within the topics Cities and Urban studies and planning terminology.
Its subject is documented across 26 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- geographical feature
- Part of
- urban studies
- Image
- South along northbound tracks from City Center station, Oct 16.jpg
- Said to be same as
- central business district
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- different from
- intra-muros
- Commons category
- Downtowns and city centers
- equivalent class
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Encyclopedic overview
The historic centre of Bardejov, Slovakia–a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A city centre, also known as an urban core, is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is used mainly in British English, and closely equivalent terms that exist in other languages, such as "centre-ville" in French, Stadtzentrum in German, or shìzhōngxīn (市中心) in Chinese. In the United States, the term "downtown" is generally used, though a few cities, like Philadelphia, use the term "Center City" or "City Center".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “city center” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.