Definitions for urbanization
ur·ban·iza·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.3 / 4 votes

1. urbanization, urbanisationnoun

   the condition of being urbanized

2. urbanization, urbanisationnoun

   the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. urbanizationnoun

   the process of the formation and growth of cities

2. urbanizationnoun

   the change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas

3. urbanizationnoun

   the proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing

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1. urbanization

   Urbanization is the process by which towns and cities are formed and grow due to an increase in population and migration of people from rural areas into urban areas. It often involves the transformation of rural areas into built-up, residential, commercial or industrial spaces. This growth usually occurs alongside advancements in technology, economy, and socio-cultural factors.

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1. Urbanization

   Urbanization is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of rural migration and even suburban concentration into cities, particularly the very large ones. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008. By 2050 it is predicted that 64.1% and 85.9% of the developing and developed world respectively will be urbanized. Urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization. Urbanization can describe a specific condition at a set time, i.e. the proportion of total population or area in cities or towns, or the term can describe the increase of this proportion over time. So the term urbanization can represent the level of urban relative to overall population, or it can represent the rate at which the urban proportion is increasing. Urbanization is not merely a modern phenomenon, but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale, whereby predominantly rural culture is being rapidly replaced by predominantly urban culture. The last major change in settlement patterns was the accumulation of hunter-gatherers into villages many thousand years ago. Village culture is characterized by common bloodlines, intimate relationships, and communal behavior whereas urban culture is characterized by distant bloodlines, unfamiliar relations, and competitive behavior. This unprecedented movement of people is forecast to continue and intensify in the next few decades, mushrooming cities to sizes incomprehensible only a century ago. Indeed, today, in Asia the urban agglomerations of Dhaka, Karachi, Mumbai, Delhi, Manila, Seoul and Beijing are each already home to over 20 million people, while the Pearl River Delta, Shanghai-Suzhou and Tokyo are forecast to approach or exceed 40 million people each within the coming decade. Outside Asia, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, New York City, Lagos and Cairo are fast approaching or home to over 20 million people already.

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1. Urbanization

   The process whereby a society changes from a rural to an urban way of life. It refers also to the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of urbanization in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of urbanization in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of urbanization in a Sentence

1. Kathy Willis:

   There's a huge change going on, mainly agricultural change and land for urbanization.

2. Mohan Guruswamy:

   If they give up on this, it will be a huge setback for industrialization, and for planned urbanization.

3. Liu Junyan:

   Areas undergoing rapid urbanization are experiencing a steep rise in risk, building resilient communities means first identifying at-risk groups, whether that's based on location, income, welfare, housing, employment, medical history, or other factors.

4. Khoo Teng Chye:

   Through greater collaboration among cities, mass urbanization -- the result of a rapidly growing global urban population -- will ultimately benefit the human race.

5. Ankit Magan:

   With rapid urbanization, infrastructure development and lack of planned cities, we have lost our focus on conserving water.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=urbanization
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Urbanization
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=urbanization
5. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=urbanization