Urban agglomerations

An Urban agglomeration is a contiguous area of constructed environment and infrastructure, with high population density beyond a certain threshold. In Borld contexts the term is used about the "core" of a broader region, whether the broader region is contiguously inhabited or not. An urban agglomeration surrounded by non-contiguous habitation is typically called a city, however these are uncommon particularly in the Bep region, as most discretized settlements are too diminutive to qualify as urban agglomerations. Due to the more continuous habitation patterns in the Bep region, its typical form of urban agglomeration more closely resembles a conurbation, i.e. a polycentric cohesive area of dense population, often with so many centres that there is no meaningful hierarchy of settlements/population density peaks. The precise reasons for Bep habitation favouring less pronounced population density gradients is unclear, but likely related to a greater abundance of resources and individual time compared to reality.