Look up: urbanization

1. Urbanization
   The development of towns and cities.
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2. urbanization
   [n] - the condition of being urbanized 2. [n] - the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
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3. urbanization
   Process by which the proportion of a population living in or around towns and cities increases through migration and natural increase. The growth of urban concentrations in the USA and Europe is a...
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4. urbanization
   the process in which an increasing proportion of a country`s population is concentrated in urban areas,as well as an increasing proportion in the country`s largest urban centres Category: Building industry • the spatial concomitant of the processes of social change,modernization and popu...
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5. urbanization
   The process whereby a society changes from a rural to an urban way of life. It refers also to the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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6. urbanization
   urbanisation noun the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
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7. urbanization
   urbanisation noun the condition of being urbanized
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8. urbanization
   the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.[73 related articles]
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9. urbanization
   urbanization The expansion of a city or metropolitan area, namely the proportion of total population or area in urban localities or areas (cities and towns), or the increase of this proportion over time. Quotations Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets a...
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10. Urbanization
    Urbanization, urbanisation or urban drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. The United Nations projected that half of the world`s population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008. Urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the so...
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11. Urbanization
    Expansion of cities into rural regions because of population growth. In most cases, population growth is primarily due to the movement of rural based people to urban areas. This is especially true in Less Developed Countries.
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12. urbanization
    Process by which the proportion of a population living in or around towns and cities increases through migration and natural increase. The growth of urban concentrations in the USA and Europe is a relatively recent phenomenon, dating back only about 150 years to the beginning of the Industrial Revolu...
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