urbanize

Example Sentences

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It was such an incredible moment to mobilize the whole country to urbanize.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Many cities have pushed back, arguing that so many more homes will more rapidly urbanize their suburban communities.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

“How we urbanize is more important than how fast we urbanize,” said Suhasini Ayer, an architect whose mixed-use development in Auroville recently won a design award at the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2022

"Canada continues to urbanize as large urban centers benefit most from new arrivals to the country," Statscan said.

From Reuters • Feb. 9, 2022

The urbanites had best not forget that the farmland which they desire to urbanize produces the food that keeps them alive.

From Down with the Cities by Nakashima, Tadashi