urbanism
urbanism
Definition
ur·ban·ism (ʉr′bə niz′əm)
noun
- the character of life in the cities; urban life, organization, problems, etc.
- the study of this
- movement of the population to, or concentration of the population in, the cities
ur′·ban·ist noun, adjective
ur′·ban·is′·tic adjective
urbanism
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- embrace: Just as importantly, why doesn't the ecotourism movement embrace urbanism?
Adjective modifier
- contemporary: A fourth strand of work has concentrated on the visual cultures of contemporary urbanism.
- modern: He has worked on research relating to Los Angeles, post modern urbanism, and political and social geography.
- unitary: Consider their concept of " unitary urbanism " , for example: " Everyone will live in their own cathedral.
- European: Instead the book opens with a couple of chapters that attempt to look at the longue durée of second millenium European urbanism.
- real: The issue is real urbanism, not some polite, politically palatable " lite " version thereof.
- utopian: Pinder, D. ( 2002 ) ' In defense of utopian urbanism: imagining cities after the " end of utopia " ' .
Noun used with modifier
- landscape: Furthermore, these threads have somewhat diverging ideas of how landscape urbanism might be made manifest.
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