It lies towards the northwestern part of the urban core.

The city's economy is strong, with an unemployment rate of just 5.7 percent, low for an urban core.

In retrospect, many say, a new urban core was just what this city of 25,000 residents needed.

But given the atmosphere of the cold war, few, if any, protested their existence so close to the urban core.

And that's a lot, when you consider that developing in an urban core is not an easy thing to do.

In fact, some see the area replacing downtown as the city's urban core.

The result is a more integrated and intact urban core.

Without them, there's little hope that the urban core can sustain its historic role as a center of cultural production.

Rural areas lie to the east, west and north of this urban core.

To form a CA, the urban core must have a population of at least 10,000.