urban

Example Sentences

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I lived part of my teen years in Brasília, the capital built from scratch whose architecture and urban planning have drawn equal parts fascination and disdain.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

The key player of the “love trapezoid,” as Raicek called it, is Damon, an urban cowboy of a jewelry designer who moves among three beguiling women, the narrator among them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

But in some local government and urban planning circles, the windowless establishments are seen as hogging land and creating dead zones where there ought be street life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

"Touring is generally in best health at the large scale: large music acts or musical theatre, in larger venues, and in larger urban areas," it said.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

A compassionate, humane approach to the problems of the urban poor must replace the punitive practices and policies that have multiplied the harms associated with poverty and racial oppression.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander