What is "urbanizing"

Usage examples of "urbanizing".

As the industrial revolution was urbanizing and modernizing England, India was becoming ruralized, a poor, agrarian country.

The state was urbanizing itself faster than any other place on the planet, faster than any other place in the history of man.

Reaching out urbanizing tentacles from its island home, the city has become a megalopolis with four of its five boroughs blanketing half of one island over a hundred miles long, engulfing another island, and sprawling up the Hudson River onto the mainland of North America.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, as much as 95 percent of all the new births in our world occur in the poorest countries, while more than half of those occur in urban and urbanizing areas.