What is "urbanize"

Usage examples of "urbanize".

As Iraqi society has become increasingly urbanized, however, the tendency toward nuclear family social organization, as opposed merely to residence, has become more prevalent.

Although restaurants were sparse in the rural lands, the urbanized German Americans built massive, ornate restaurants featuring Old World foods such as weisswurst, sauerbraten, dark breads, and Wiener schnitzel, washed down with beer.

In no region is the credo more religiously followed than South Florida, which has become so urbanized and perilous that tourists stay away by the millions, and longtime residents bail out in droves.

The view of urbanized society is that preserving a few representative living things in parks and zoos can solve the question of species extinction.

Even the use of nonpersistent agents at the FEBA (Forward Edge of the Battle Area) cannot but have major impact on the civilian population due to the heavily urbanized character of the German countryside and the patent inability of any government to provide adequate protection for its civilian population.

This thing, on many worlds, became increasingly widely spread with the collapse of the cities, the desertion of urbanized areas, the ruin and decay of thousands of small, once thriving municipalities, the breakdown in order and policing, the general falling into disrepair of roads and waterways, the disruption of commerce and communication, the gradual isolation and ruralization of the vast majority of the population.

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

In urbanized, technologized society—that institutional home for the orphans of Pan—there may be few who can even relate anymore to the Four Elements.

As Iran has shown, Islamic extremism is the psychological defense mechanism of urbanized peasants threatened with the loss of traditions in pseudo-modern cities, where their values are under attack, even as basic services like water and electricity have broken down.

Was it only accidental that attacks on Christians, as well as on passing tourist trains and boats, occurred mainly in the most polluted and badly urbanized part of the Nile Valley?

An urbanized peasantry that has crowded into Egyptian cities has withdrawn into religion, unable to fathom the issues of overpopulation and resource scarcity confronted in the 1970s by the Western rationalist John Waterbury.

Now there were only those who were acquiring considerable wealth through mafia connections, and urbanized peasants living in poured-concrete tenements, waking up, shell-shocked, for the first time since that awful day in 1920 when the city was overrun by the Bolshevik soldiery.

The friendly faces here reminded me of the border guards’ in pre-ipSp communist Bulgaria, which, like Laos, was characterized by a peasantry that had never really been urbanized and had, consequently, never lost its roots.

Just as the Sawgrass Expressway hasn't disastrously urbanized northwest Broward.

The Amplitur forces will not land in your urbanized areas, whose populations they will wish to preserve intact.