Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Organizations
4. organizations
5. administrative bodies
6. administrative entities
7. political administrative bodies by general designation

Narrower term/s

• [settlements by form][+]
  • hamlets
  • villages [+]
    • kraals (villages)
    • ksour
    • nucleated villages
  • towns [+]
    • oppida
    • theme towns
    • historic towns
    • burgs
  • cities [+]
    • medinas
    • municipia
    • poleis
    • metropolises
  • agglomerations [+]
    • megalopolises
    • conurbations
  • metropolitan areas
  • camps (temporary settlements)
  • communities (inhabited places) [+]
    • former communities
  • communes (administrative)
  • demes (inhabited places)
  • linear settlements [+]
    • linear cities
  • settlements (sites of small communities)
  • townlands
  • communes nouvelles
• [settlements by function][+]
  • [settlements by function: administrative] [+]
    • local administrative centers [+]
      • county seats
      • parish seats
      • noble seats (inhabited places)
    • colonial cities
    • missions (settlements)
    • pueblos (settlements)
    • municipalities
    • Indian reductions
    • localities
    • capitals (seats of government) [+]
      • capital cities
      • national capitals
      • regional capitals
      • state capitals
      • district capitals
      • provincial capitals
      • department capitals
      • subregional capitals
    • colonial settlements
    • episcopal sees
    • archiepiscopal sees
    • patriarchal sees
    • parlements (administrative seats)
    • cathedral centers [+]
      • cathedral cities
      • cathedral towns
    • seats (inhabited places) [+]
      • county seats [NP]
      • parish seats [NP]
      • noble seats (inhabited places) [NP]
    • headquarters (administrative settlement) [+]
      • park headquarters
    • rancherias
    • comarcas (settlements)
    • ejidos
  • [settlements by function: military] [+]
    • bastides
    • castelli (fortified towns)
    • presidios
    • fortified settlements [+]
      • walled settlements
    • military centers [+]
      • military towns
  • televillages
  • special cities
  • independent cities
  • special municipalities
  • imperial cities
  • administrative centers
  • legislative centers
  • judicial centers
  • regional centers
  • transportation centers (inhabited places) [+]
    • halting places
  • religious centers [+]
    • monastic centers
    • sanctuary centers (religious centers)
    • cult centers
  • political centers
  • emporia (trading centers)
  • facility centers
  • census-designated places
• [settlements by location][+]
  • suburbs [+]
    • garden suburbs
  • exurbs
  • [settlements by location: topographical] [+]
    • coastal settlements [+]
      • coastal towns
    • hill settlements [+]
      • hill towns
    • river settlements [+]
      • river towns
    • oasis settlements
    • marina settlements
    • underground settlements [+]
      • cave settlements
  • space colonies
  • edge cities
  • rural communities
  • frontier settlements
  • satellite communities [+]
    • satellite cities
    • satellite towns
• [settlements by condition][+]
  • lost settlements [+]
    • lost cities
    • lost villages
  • ruined settlements [+]
    • deserted settlements [+]
      • abandoned cities
    • buried settlements [+]
      • buried cities
      • tells [+]
  • ghost towns
  • unincorporated areas
  • autonomous municipalities
  • autonomous cities
  • ephemeral communities (inhabited places)
  • incorporated areas
  • seasonally inhabited places
  • cultural centers (inhabited places)
  • occupation sites
  • sister cities
  • former inhabited places
  • centers (settlements)
  • floating communities
• [settlements by planning concept][+]
  • bastides [NP]
  • model cities
  • future cities
  • ideal cities
  • urban villages
  • villes neuves (historical settlements)
  • planned communities [+]
    • new towns (modern settlements)
    • garden cities
    • civitates
    • model villages
• [settlements by occupants][+]
  • artists' colonies
  • retirement communities [+]
    • life care communities
    • continuing care retirement communities
  • squatter settlements
  • quilombos
  • agraharas
  • leper colonies
  • residential centers
  • penal settlements [+]
    • penal colonies
  • craftsman settlements
  • refugee centers
  • native peoples reservations [+]
    • Indian reservations (Native American reservations)
    • tribal areas
    • Aboriginal reserves
    • First Nations reserves
  • Amerindian communities [+]
    • Indian reservations (Native American reservations) [NP]
    • First Nations reserves [NP]
  • pirate havens
  • health colonies
  • cumbes
• [settlements by ownership][+]
  • collective settlements [+]
    • communes (social)
    • kibbutzim
    • moshavim
• [settlements by economic base][+]
  • boomtowns
  • ports (settlements) [+]
    • airports [NP] [+]
      • heliports (airports)
      • taxiways [NP]
      • runways (airport runways) [NP] [+]
      • overruns [NP]
    • treaty ports
    • free ports
    • inland ports [+]
      • river ports
    • ports of entry
    • seaports
    • outer ports
  • company towns
  • golf course communities
  • cow towns
  • fishing communities [+]
    • fishing villages
  • fur stations
  • prison centers (inhabited places) [+]
    • prison towns
  • breeding centers (inhabited places)
  • agricultural centers (inhabited places) [+]
    • agricultural settlements
    • farm villages
    • moshavim [NP]
  • irrigation centers (inhabited places)
  • livestock centers
  • timber centers
  • viniculture centers
  • corporate headquarters (inhabited places)
  • fish-processing centers (inhabited places)
  • financial centers
  • market centers (inhabited places) [+]
    • market towns [+]
      • bourgs (market towns)
    • market hamlets
    • market villages
  • trade centers
  • shipping centers
  • shipbuilding centers
  • textile centers
  • tourist centers [+]
    • tourist towns
    • tourist villages
  • resort centers
  • sporting centers (inhabited places)
  • spa centers
  • entertainment centers (inhabited places)
  • university centers (inhabited places) [+]
    • university cities
    • university towns
  • college centers (inhabited places) [+]
    • college towns
  • scientific centers (inhabited places)
  • publishing centers
  • industrial centers (inhabited places) [+]
    • industrial towns
    • factory centers [+]
      • factory villages
    • mill centers [+]
      • mill towns
    • mining centers (inhabited places) [+]
      • mining towns
      • gold towns
    • manufacturing centers
  • quarrying centers
  • petroleum refining centers
  • metallurgical centers
  • communications centers (inhabited places)
  • power production centers (inhabited places)
  • weapons production centers
  • commercial centers (inhabited places)

Anotations

Scope note:

General term for places or areas occupied, modified, or planned to be inhabited by communities of human populations and that contain enough societal functions to be relatively self-sufficient. They are characterized by inhabitants living in neighboring sets of living quarters and by the place having a proper name or a locally recognized status.