urbanization
the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city: Urbanization has led to more air pollution and increasing childhood asthma.
Origin of urbanization
1- Also especially British, ur·ban·i·sa·tion .
Other words from urbanization
- o·ver·ur·ban·i·za·tion, noun
Words Nearby urbanization
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How to use urbanization in a sentence
In 2015, New York launched Urbantech NYC to uncover new technology solutions to urbanization problems faced by government, businesses and urban residents, tackling issues related to food, water, medicine, waste management and other problems.
VC investment in proptech can yield profits and change lives | Walter Thompson | January 27, 2021 | TechCrunchOn a much wider scale, the New Urban Agenda global vision by the United Nations’ Habitat program, meanwhile, calls for more inclusive and sustainable urbanization and settlement planning.
Future Cities: New Challenges Mean We Need to Reimagine the Look of Urban Landscapes | Nick Dunn | December 18, 2020 | Singularity HubClimate change, competition for resources, and urbanization will produce more conflict.
Why people still starve in an age of abundance | Bobbie Johnson | December 17, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe inflation is also an indicator for the health of a threatened woodland ecosystem in an age of mass urbanization and factory farming and dwindling green spaces.
‘The Mozart of fungi’: For ages, truffle hunting has been one of the most challenging pursuits on earth. Then the pandemic hit | Bernhard Warner | December 12, 2020 | FortuneThere is still quite a long pathway to reach peak urbanization in China.
One million text messages and betting on green hydrogen: A Q&A with Fortescue Metals CEO Elizabeth Gaines | Erika Fry | December 7, 2020 | Fortune
Future urbanization does not need to pose a choice between rural hopelessness and urban despair.
Colorful inflated onion domes appeared to symbolize the birth of urbanization.
Sorry Putin, the Sochi Opening Ceremony Was Totally Gay | Tim Teeman | February 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTurbanization in China has brought hundreds of millions of people from rural locations to the bustling coastal metropolises.
Inside China’s Mistress-Industrial Complex | Junheng Li, Bethany Allen, Ana Swanson | February 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRarely considered, however, is whether this form of urbanization creates a good place for people, particularly families.
City Leaders Are in Love With Density but Most City Dwellers Disagree | Joel Kotkin | September 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBlame the weak recovery, an aging population, increasing urbanization, and the growth of public transport.
The effects of urbanization are more tangible and better recognized than those of agricultural land-use.
Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas | Artie L. MetcalfThree modifications which have especially affected streams have been agricultural use, urbanization, and industrialization.
Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas | Artie L. MetcalfWhat was it that reversed the process of urbanization that was going on in the mother country?
Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 | Wilcomb E. WashburnThe development of the inspection system with its chain of tobacco warehouses hastened urbanization.
Tobacco in Colonial Virginia | Melvin HerndonAnother effect of urbanization has been increased loads of sewage discharged into the streams.
Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas | Artie L. Metcalf
Cultural definitions for urbanization
The process by which cities grow or by which societies become more urban.
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