Concept: Suburban in the areaclassification vocabulary

Concept URI	http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/aq/areaclassification/suburban
Preferred label	Suburban
Definition	Largely built-up urban area. ‘Largely built-up’ means contiguous settlement of detached buildings of any size with a building density less than for ‘continuously built-up’ area. The built-up area is mixed with non-urbanised areas (e.g. agricultural, lakes, woods). It must also be noted that ‘suburban’ as defined here has a different meaning than in every day English i.e. ‘an outlying part of a city or town’ suggesting that a suburban area is always associated to an urban area. In our context, a suburban area can be suburban on its own without any urban part.
Notation	suburban
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2013-03-22
Accepted Date	2013-03-22
Not Accepted Date

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