URBANIZATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of urbanization in English

(Definition of urbanization from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of urbanization from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of urbanization

urbanization
It is no criticism of these less successful essays to suggest that they tell us little about the interaction between gender and urbanization.
Local morals and values are affirmed, while the influences of urbanization are adjusted to fit more closely with those of the community.
The khwushnishin population should continue to decline, perpetuating the current rapid urbanization, for unemployed farmworkers mostly migrate to urban centers to look for employment.
In general, cityward migrants have some interaction with the recipient population and culture or urbanization, which depresses the fertility.
Because of the definition of urban residence, there is large variation in the degree of urbanization in non-urban settlements.
Other issues such as migration, urbanization, and the media are also discussed.
They are classified according to various structural characteristics, including population size, degree of urbanization and production sector, ranging from sparsely populated municipalities to large cities.
They were designed as autonomous settlements capable of guaranteeing work, housing and services efficiently and cheaply, within a territory totally lacking any kind of urbanization.
Urbanization between 880 and 1300 was, he concludes, one of the crucial ingredients in transforming the medieval economy.
Such rapid urbanization creates pressures for provision of adequate water supply of an acceptable standard.
Urbanization is also postulated as a significant factor in fertility declines.
Urbanization does not affect the population uniformly, as the urban-rural polarity is associated with social class and age dimensions.
Transitions to non-competition outnumbered transitions to competition at each level of urbanization, but the phenomenon of non-competition is primarily a rural one.
The interaction term (organization form by urbanization degree) was not significant.
The penultimate part analyses the ideological, physical, and environmental impact on the countryside of urbanism and urbanization.
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Translations of urbanization

in Chinese (Traditional)
城市化過程…
in Chinese (Simplified)
城市化过程…
in Spanish
urbanización…
in Portuguese
urbanização…
in more languages
in Polish
urbanizacja…
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