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Second-generation meetings were more public, convening in parks or commercial spaces, taking advantage of a China that was rapidly urbanizing, economically booming, and opening to outsiders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The research found that WUI areas are expanding worldwide, especially in rapidly urbanizing regions in Africa.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024

The losses, mostly driven by habitat destruction on the rapidly urbanizing continent, could prove catastrophic to ecosystem health.

From National Geographic • Jan. 4, 2024

It reverberates in the bustle and thrum of the continent’s ballooning cities, their hectic streets jammed with new arrivals, that make Africa the most rapidly urbanizing continent on earth.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2023

Let us take careful note of the fact that the present urbanizing social structure allows only 0.9 percent of the young to feed the other 99.1 percent prodigal sons.

From Down with the Cities by Nakashima, Tadashi