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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
urbanized
adjective
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▪ During the nineteenth century Britain became the world's first modern urbanized society.
▪ The high overall density reflects the urbanized nature of the population.
▪ The more centralized, urbanized and mechanized a society becomes, the less control we have and the more violence is bred.
▪ We must start from where we are, as urbanized humanity.
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urbanized

vb. (en-past of: urbanize)

WordNet
urbanized

adj. made urban in nature; taking on urban characteristics; "the urbanized Eastern states" [syn: urbanised]

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Urbanized

Urbanized is a documentary film directed by Gary Hustwit and released on 26 October 2011. It is considered the third of a three-part series on design known as the Design Trilogy; the first being Helvetica, about the typeface, and the second being Objectified, about industrial design.

The documentary discusses the design of cities, looking at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. To promote the documentary film 'Urbanized' Build screen-printed a set of four limited edition prints based on four themes (Housing, Mobility, Public Space & Infrastructure).

Usage examples of "urbanized".

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.

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An urbanized peasantry that has crowded into Egyptian cities has withdrawn into religion, unable to fathom the issues of overpopulation and resource scarcity confronted in the 1970s by the Western rationalist John Waterbury.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

The large number of civilians in urbanized terrain also creates special situations and attendant problems.

Though timeless, it was a tableau less frequently encountered on the more urbanized worlds like Terra or Centauri.

Tuleon was urbanized but hardly urbane, and Flinx had learned early on that large amounts of credit had a way of fogging Truth's vision.

Tuleon was urbanized but hardly urbane, and Flinx had learned early on that large amounts of credit had a way of fogging Truth's vi­sion.

Extremely Earth-like on the Solmev Scale, it was settled by early seedships and was completely urbanized by the time of the Fall.