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to urbanize

to urbanize

4 5.3
To make a place more like a city by building more houses, roads, shops, and services
  • verb
  • /ˈɜrbənaɪz/
  • US
translation icon : urbanizar
  • The big opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is actually in urbanizing the suburbs.
  • urbanized area
  • urbanized population
  • heavily urbanized

William, what's man search for shelter in an urbanizing world?

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Examples

  • As more people choose to live in cities, efforts to urbanize rural areas are becoming increasingly important.

  • It's they, they embarked on this massive campaign to to urbanize the rural population.

  • As people urbanize, as people get educated, as wealth improves, people are making greater investments in a smaller number of children.

  • So the country will continue to urbanize, and I just don't see the suburbs going away.

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  • So Pakistan is a rapidly developing and rapidly urbanizing nation with a very young population.

  • And as we live in an ever urbanizing planet, people have more and more desire and need to commune with nature.

  • When you think about rural areas versus versus urban areas, money is flowing, you know, from savings in rural areas to the urbanizing cities.

  • The city plans to urbanize the surrounding areas by building new apartments and parks.

  • Many countries are working to urbanize remote regions to provide better access to services and education.

Synonyms

to develop
vsto urbanize
259 2.8

To make land or an area ready for a new use like shops

focuses on creating city life and city growth rather than general use
to citify
vsto urbanize
8.6

To make a place or its people more like a city

adds building and physical change rather than only social or cultural shifts

How Urban

to densify
  • Specialized
1 6.9
to urbanize
  • US
4 5.3
to develop
259 2.8

Surface Forms

urbanize infinitive
urbanized past
urbanized past participle
urbanizing present participle
urbanizes third person singular

Morphology

urbanize = urban (transparent) = urban + ize

Formed by the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' attached to the clear adjective 'urban', meaning 'to make urban' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Urbanize comes from the Latin root urb-, which means 'city' and appears in words like urban and suburb ('near the city'). So, to urbanize a place is to make it more like a city by adding buildings, roads, and city life.