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The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
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urbanization
Word definitions for urbanization in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the condition of being urbanized [syn: urbanisation ] the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban [syn: urbanisation ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas , "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. It is predominantly the process by which towns and cities are ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1888, noun of action from urbanize .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 the process of the formation and growth of cities 2 the change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas 3 the proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion ...
Usage examples of urbanization.
Urbanization around the world has generally marked a radical shift in environment and values from culturally homogenous small towns and rural areas to heterogenous, ethnically, culturally and even racially mixed cities.
The Gallic way of life was rural, as much pastoral as agricultural, and they spurned urbanization, preferring to cluster in farmsteads and villages.
It is a way to make up for the loss of bat habitats through urbanization.
Iran’s revolutionary iniquities were partly the result of fast-forward urbanization and modernization.
A society experiencing chronic internal conflict because of resource scarcities, rapid urbanization, pollution, and other “.
There was a billboard at the entrance, announcing to all travelers that they were passing the El Jippo Urbanization.
Like all men, we avoided areas of previous urbanization, for nose plugs were inferior in those days, and Muskies were omnipresent and terrifying.
They are all of them pastorals, having in common a closeness to the countryside and the forces of nature in days just before heavy urbanization and mechanization.
Deforestation, pollution, urbanization, had all progressed so far now that various points of no return had been passed.
However, to keep it that way in the face of both increasing urbanization (the number of shantytowns has tripled in twenty years to 370) and foreign cultural influences—evinced by the profusion of television antennas that beam in not just Moslem sermons but Western-style soap operas— requires an increasingly conservative social glue, which, in turn, can provide an ignitable surface for the spread of Islamic radicalism.