urbanization

[ ur-buh-nuh-zey-shuhn ]

noun

1. 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.

urbanization

1. The process by which cities grow or by which societies become more urban.

Other Words From

• over·urban·i·zation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of urbanization¹

urbaniz(e) + -ation

Example Sentences

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.

From TechCrunch

On 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.

From Singularity Hub 

Climate change, competition for resources, and urbanization will produce more conflict.

From MIT Technology Review

The 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.

From Fortune

There is still quite a long pathway to reach peak urbanization in China.

From Fortune

Future urbanization does not need to pose a choice between rural hopelessness and urban despair.

From The Daily Beast

Colorful inflated onion domes appeared to symbolize the birth of urbanization.

From The Daily Beast

Urbanization in China has brought hundreds of millions of people from rural locations to the bustling coastal metropolises.

From The Daily Beast

Rarely considered, however, is whether this form of urbanization creates a good place for people, particularly families.

From The Daily Beast

Blame the weak recovery, an aging population, increasing urbanization, and the growth of public transport.

From The Daily Beast

The effects of urbanization are more tangible and better recognized than those of agricultural land-use.

From Project Gutenberg

Three modifications which have especially affected streams have been agricultural use, urbanization, and industrialization.

From Project Gutenberg

What was it that reversed the process of urbanization that was going on in the mother country?

From Project Gutenberg

The development of the inspection system with its chain of tobacco warehouses hastened urbanization.

From Project Gutenberg

Another effect of urbanization has been increased loads of sewage discharged into the streams.

From Project Gutenberg