urbanism

[ur-buh-niz-uhm]

noun

1. the way of life of people who live in a large city.

2. urbanization.

3. city planning.

urbanism

/ ˈɜːbəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. 1. the character of city life

   2. the study of this

2. a less common term for urbanization See urbanization

Word History and Origins

Origin of urbanism¹

1885–90; urban + -ism, modeled on French urbanisme

Example Sentences

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.

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Most important is his monumental, multivolume history of New York’s built environment since the Civil War—the latest entry, “New York 2020: Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century,” appearing a month before his death.

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"These factors promoted the coevolution of urbanism, systemic inequality and patron-client relationships in cities."

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This was a trademark of Kelly’s, notes Dietrich Neumann, professor of the history of modern architecture and urbanism at Brown University and author of “The Structure of Light: Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture.”

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Reconstruction is likely to be a slow, painstaking process, one that Shelly Culbertson calls "incremental urbanism".

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