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urbanism Definition

ur·ban·ism (ʉrbə niz′əm)

noun

    1. the character of life in the cities; urban life, organization, problems, etc.
    2. the study of this
  1. movement of the population to, or concentration of the population in, the cities

urbanism Related Forms
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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