urbanize
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Emerging markets over the longterm will continue to urbanize along with rising incomes.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
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
The urge to urbanize is hard-wired in us because cities are life.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
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 Tadashi Nakashima
“It’s a street that’s stuck in time” and that’s just now waking up as Burien urbanizes, said Councilmember Jimmy Matta, who lives near Chelsea Park.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
As Nigeria urbanizes, children’s help is not needed in fields; the extended families have broken down.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2012
The island’s cities are dense and highly urbanized, making it easy for small stores to capture heavy foot traffic.
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
The country’s east is heavily urbanized, with a population density about 50 times that of Arctic Scandinavia and Finland, where every square mile houses on average five people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
That research has shed light on existential threats facing the big cats eking out an existence in an increasingly urbanized landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
That’s far less than in more urbanized and wealthier counties in the state such as Richland, Greenville, and Beaufort.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
Communication between southern Mexico and the Andes required either a sea voyage or else a long chain of overland contacts via the narrow, forested, never urbanized Isthmus of Darien.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
By 1850, more than 8% of the population lived in a top-20 city, driven largely by the urbanizing Northeast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
The research found that WUI areas are expanding worldwide, especially in rapidly urbanizing regions in Africa.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
The losses, mostly driven by habitat destruction on the rapidly urbanizing continent, could prove catastrophic to ecosystem health.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 4, 2024
It reverberates in the bustle and thrum of the continent’s ballooning cities, their hectic streets jammed with new arrivals, that make Africa the most rapidly urbanizing continent on earth.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2023
Of particular Basinwide interest will be the results of the application of Soil Conservation Service watershed programs in controlling erosion in urbanizing stream basins in the Washington metropolitan area, and the lessons learned therefrom.
From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.
