London, with its highly compact districts, took the lead in this, and moved to a two-tier rather than three-tier organisation.
The old 7th had been a fairly compact district centered around Dayton.
In 2012 the district was found to be the third least compact congressional district in the United States.
Its compact historic district, attractions and accessibility make Fredericksburg an ideal weekend destination.
For his first eleven terms, Spence represented a relatively compact district in the central portion of the state.
Today Cincinnati's downtown area, which angles up from the Ohio River, is a compact district that retains a sense of the past.
Representative Pickering, on the other hand, said justice was being done because the federal court map has compact districts.
The old 10th had been a fairly compact district taking in most of Macomb and St. Clair counties.
This compact district has evolved from a ghetto (imposed on the Chinese in the 19th century by the city's founders) into a local economic and political force.
The new 20th district was far from the compact urban/suburban district Peyser had represented.