Definition of "urbanization" []

• The process of the formation and growth of cities (noun)
• The change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas (noun)
• The proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing (noun)

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• "Now, following the urbanization of this region, all this is a plan among the 100 we will have as resources permit gradually for what we call urbanization of the rural areas."
• "And just to reiterate, if population density and/or urbanization is the reason the US needs to be slower than Japan and Sweden you need to explain why internet speed in the District of Columbia is also slower than the internet in those countries."
• "A few thoughts: One: (all due respect, Mike) I'm not completely buying into the argument that urbanization is one of the primary agents of change."