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(urban studies) Careless introduction of high-rise buildings into traditional residential neighbourhoods.
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(US, derogatory, urban studies) Large-scale development of land; urban sprawl.
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The process of making something urban.
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A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.
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The process of transforming state assets, government agencies, or municipal organizations into publicly-owned corporations
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A movement that counters urbanization
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movement (of a population) away from an urban environemnt
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The influence of football on real-life matters such as politics, economics and the media.
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(urban studies) The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.
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The creative destruction of something for the betterment of society.
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The tendency for economic development, urbanization etc to cluster along a coastline
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(slang) Dispersed urban development; urban sprawl.
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(politics) The assimilation or incorporation of Hong Kong into mainland China.
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Transformation into a shopping mall.
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The construction of many tall or densely situated buildings in a city.
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Alternative form of market urbanist [Of or pertaining to market urbanism.]
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(by extension) The effects of international McDonaldization of services and commercialization of goods and services as an element of globalization as a whole.
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The process of megalopolizing.
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To turn into a megalopolis.
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The formation and development of a metropolitan city
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The act of monopolizing or the state of being monopolized.
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(economics) The transfer of corporations or other assets to municipal ownership.
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The act or process of making or becoming a nation.
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The introduction and establishment of an animal or plant into a place where it is not indigenous.
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The supply of passports to citizens of another country for national political reasons.
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The piecemeal urbanization of the rural areas around a city
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(historical) The sale or destruction of resources such as livestock by the kulaks in order to prevent them being appropriated under Soviet collectivization.
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(historical) The act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or around towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.
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A second or subsequent urbanisation
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the proportion of a region's population that live in villages and small communities; the rate at which this proportion is growing
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The formation of rurban areas (by urban expansion into the countryside).
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(anthropology) The settling of a nomadic population; sedentism.
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The changes caused by a large population of students moving into an area.
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The process of suburbanizing, of population movement from cities to suburbs
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The conscious design of towns and cities.
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(uncountable) A process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.
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The process of the formation and growth of cities.
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One who develops a place into a city.
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Resettlement of citizens into designated villages by governmental or military authorities.
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