Of a city: having only one central concentration of businesses, administration, and entertainment. Now rare.

that has been subjected to strip or ribbon development.

Of a settlement: having several foci; spec. (of an urban area) planned in the form of a number of self-contained communities.

Also in plural. Designating or relating to a previously undeveloped site used for commercial development or exploitation; (of land) not…

(U.S.), used attributively to designate public housing (esp. for low-income families) distributed throughout a city rather than concentrated in a…

Town Planning. Designating or relating to a housing policy which requires a number of homes in any new development to be affordable by those on low…

= scattered-site n. at scattered, adj. 2b.