The area within a city or town, as indicated by appropriate traffic signs (or, in the United Kingdom, by the presence of street lights), where different traffic rules are in effect, such as a reduction of the speed limit.
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1 Discharge of a firearm in a built - up area or a public place.
2 There were no great difficulties of expansion in the built - up area of Willstown.
3 There was a built - up area by the bridge and around the little summer-house harbour.
4 About 50% of built - up area is now thought to be under the sea.
5 Officials said the plane plunged into a built - up area of the Sumatra city of Medan.
1 Bradford is just the latest urban area to get the Alsop treatment.
2 Harvard's campus is located in a densely populated urban area adjoining Boston.
3 Anyone outside an urban area was immediately teleported in to safety.
4 Half of the urban area that will be needed hasn't been built yet.
5 Empty land is tough to come by in Mexico City's crammed urban area .
1 There is also a big area of three-storeyed dwellings in the darker shaded mixed house urban zone .
2 Unlike a human city, there was no gradual buildup of the urban zone ; here it was clearly defined.
3 The other big proposed change is in the mixed housing urban zone , which allows for medium-density up to three storeys high.
4 Urban zones , whatever the size, were occupied by a garrison.
5 Investigating the future of our urban zones , and what cities offer towards a sustainable future.
1 A densely populated urban region was chosen as a scenery.
2 Mr McQuillan switches from his current job as assistant chief constable for urban region with immediate effect.
3 An earlier version said the north-east urban region was expected to create its own combined authority later this year.
4 The National Capital Region encompasses an urban region around Delhi and is home to more than 37 million people.
5 Thirty-seven early adolescents (ages 10-14) from a Latin-American urban region participated in the study.
6 West Yorkshire, Sheffield and Liverpool all created their own combined authorities on 1 April, and the north-east urban region followed soon after.
7 Among Sweden's Nordic neighbours, Denmark has closed its borders and shut its schools, as has Norway, while Finland has isolated its main urban region .
8 Of the dead, 11 were residents of the Federal District, a sprawling urban region of 19 million inhabitants encompassing Mexico City.
9 In 2011 it was 16.4 percent, the fastest growing urban region and ahead of Shanghai and Beijing, according to Chongqing government data.
10 The highest amount of available soil Cu was distributed in the middle of the study area surrounding urban region which presented as a "single island".
11 Pediatricians with higher educational levels clustered in more developed and urban regions .
12 Jobs are scarcer in outer urban regions , and they are often less well paid.
13 Urban regions like Canterbury, Auckland and Wellington generally fared well.
14 The figure for the greater Dublin area is similar to rates in large urban regions in other countries.
15 Methods: For the investigation people living mainly in urban regions were selected from a nationwide study in 2006.
16 It was land, or more precisely it was the way that land-use rights transfer from rural to urban regions .
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