Urban agglomerations

An Urban agglomeration is a contiguous area of constructed environment and infrastructure, of population density beyond a certain threshold and with coherent or overlapping markets and services. In Borld contexts the term is used about a broader region's most urbanized "core", whether the broader region is contiguously inhabited or not. An urban agglomeration surrounded by non-contiguous habitation or no habitation is typically called a city, however these are uncommon particularly in the Bep region, as most discretized settlements there are too diminutive to qualify as urban agglomerations. City-type agglomerations occur mainly on especially valuable, hostile or physically limited terrain. Examples may be $$$$SOME CITY$$$$, a contiguously inhabited island, and $$$$SOME OTHER CITY$$$$, dug into the otherwise barely-habitable $$$$MOUNTAIN RANGE$$$$, and founded on underground food & mineral cultivation.

Due to the more continuous habitation patterns in the Bep domain, its typical form of urban agglomeration more closely resembles a conurbation, i.e. a cohesive polycentric area of dense population, in Bep contexts usually comprising so many centres/nodes that there is no meaningful hierarchy between them. The extent of interconnection and continuity between Bep urban agglomerations means most of the Bep domain comprises a single, obscenely large megalopolis.

The precise reasons for Bep habitation patterns favouring smoother & flatter population density gradients compared to reality is unclear, but may be related to 1) a lesser focus on mass production/terraforming in construction, 2) greater area usage per person both incl. and excl. agriculture, and 3) both proportionally- and absolutely more time available to individuals over the course of an average lifespan.

Here is a list of key Bep terminology concerning dense areas of settlement, including notes on more detailed subdivisions/nuances:
 * Eep, a list entry
 * Meep, a second one
 * Sneep, yet another!

Some examples with brief explanations
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