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Verb
/ˈərbəˌnīz/,
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urbanising, present participle; urbanizing, present participle; urbanised, past participle; urbanized, past participle; urbanizes, 3rd person singular present; urbanized, past tense; urbanised, past tense; urbanises, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Make or become urban in character
    • - once an agrarian society, the island has recently been urbanized
    • - urbanized areas
  1. make more industrial or city-like; "The area was urbanized after many people moved in"
  2. impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon; "Birds are being urbanized by people in outdoor cafes feeding them"
  3. (urbanization) the condition of being urbanized
  4. (urbanization) the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
  5. Urbanization, Urbanisation or Urban Drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanization is also defined by the United Nations as movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. ...
  6. To make something more urban in character; To take up an urban way of life
  7. (urbanization) the process of the formation and growth of cities; the change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas; the proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing
  8. (Urbanization) the process by which an area becomes developed for residential, commercial and industrial use.
  9. Urbanization is a process of organizing people, processes, activities, and labour in cities or towns.
  10. (URBANIZATION) While its roots are rural, the contemporary mariachi is an urban phenomenon associated with post-revolutionary Mexico City. It was in that nation's capital and principal metropolis that the urban mariachi was born and where most of its development took place. ...
  11. (Urbanization) Both the process of people moving to cities and taking up an urban way of life and the expansion of cities into land previously not occupied by urban space.
  12. (Urbanization) Taking on the characteristics of a city.
  13. (Urbanization) The growth of city living, although it is often used to refer to the phenomenal expansion of new centres of economic activity and mass living in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  14. (Urbanization) The long-term but increasingly intensifying shift of human populations from the country to the city. It is a process that has contributed significantly to the reduction of open spaces available for recreation as land was expropriated for the building of industrial infrastructure. ...
  15. (Urbanization) When people in search of jobs or better opportunities move in large numbers to urban areas from rural areas.
  16. (Urbanization) in general, the historical process describing the growth of towns in modern society, implying a change in the socio-economic and demographic structure of a population, an urban way of life and new settlement.
  17. (urbanization) A process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities or suburbs of cities, areas of population dense enough that residents cannot grow their own food.
  18. (urbanization) The concentration of development in relatively small areas (cities and suburbs). The U.S. Census Bureau defines “urban” as referring to areas with more than 1.5 people per acre.
  19. (urbanization) an increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements
  20. Urbanization is the process by which a rural space becomes urban due to the population growth of a city and/or urban sprawl. This process may be planned or spontaneous.