[ûŕbə-nīź]
(v.)To make urban in nature or character.
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The Urbanization of the World ... Urbanization refers to a process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities. Historically, it has been closely connected with industrialization.
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Urbanization (also spelled urbanisation ) is the physical growth of urban areas from rural areas as a result of population immigration to an existing urban area. Effects include change in density a...
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The Process of Urbanization ... The degree of urbanization varies across the world but generally reflects the wealth of individual countries. The rich, industrialized countries tend to be the most highly urbanized. In the Netherlands, for example, 89 per cent of the population is urban, compared to only 13 per cent in...
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What Is It? ... Home > Issues > Urbanization ... Photo: Urbanization...
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However, urbanization is occurring rapidly in many less developed countries, and it is expected that most urban growth will occur in less developed countries during the next decades. Figure 2 shows the projected growth of the urban and rural populations in developed and less developed countries.
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Perhaps wildlife ecologists worry about the loss of lands to agriculture, but agriculture worries about the loss of productive lands to urbanization. There are 30 and 50 km rings around the major urban areas of Southern Ontario on this map.
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The early United States was predominately rural. According to the 1790 census, 95 percent of the population lived in the countryside. The 5 percent of Americans living in urban areas (places with more than 2,500 persons) lived mostly in small villages. ... People; Urbanization of America...
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