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urbiculture|ˈɜːbɪkʌltjʊə(r)|
[f. L. urbis, urbs a city + culture n.]
a. The development of cities and towns and urban life; the cultivation of urban interests.
b. = rurbanization s.v. rurban a.
1954Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 26 July 16/1 A bill introduced by Rep. J. Arthur Younger..to create a U.S. Department of Urbiculture. 1959[see rurbanization].
Hence ˌurbiˈculturist.
1977Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 23 July 48/1 The urbiculturists—give a multimillion-dollar skyscraping enclave or two—move now not to knock down and build anew, but to make over or, to use today's mot juste, to recycle. |