urbanism
Americannoun
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the character of city life
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the study of this
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a less common term for urbanization See urbanization
Etymology
Origin of urbanism
Example Sentences
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He wrote or co-wrote at least 16 books, among them a brilliant monograph on George Howe and his “Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City,” a massive study of American urbanism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
"These factors promoted the coevolution of urbanism, systemic inequality and patron-client relationships in cities."
From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025
Reconstruction is likely to be a slow, painstaking process, one that Shelly Culbertson calls "incremental urbanism".
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025
This early viral video of urbanism directly motivated activists and city leaders in Portland, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, and New York City to start their own open streets programs.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2024
Feudalism co-existed and then supplanted urbanism and the big estates became so autonomous that they ignored the Byzantine court altogether.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel
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