单词 | urbanization |
释义 | urbanizationn. 1. The process of making or becoming urban in character; the condition of being urbanized. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > urbanizing urbanization1888 1888 Advance (Chicago) 8 Mar. 152 One of the most remarkable characteristics of the time is ‘the urbanization of the country’. 1904 Parl. Rep. Comm. Physical Degeneration 16 The ‘urbanization’ of the population cannot have been unattended by consequences prejudicial to the health of the people. 1938 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 44 365 The culture shift is toward urbanization and anglicization. 1971 B. Sidran Black Talk ii. 33 In the process of urbanization, the rural blues musician met the organized band musicians, and the result is what we have come to recognize as early jazz. 1996 R. F. Pineo Soc. & Econ. Reform in Ecuador i. 3 Economic change and urbanization generated new patterns of politics in Latin America. 2. An urbanized area; (British) a housing development. Also as a mass noun. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > a development urbanization1939 development1957 scheme1968 1939 Econ. Geogr. 15 222 Turku, although an urbanization of no mean dimensions for Finland, is backed by a fairly densely populated agrarian hinterland. 1941 Times 15 Dec. 8/1 Housing development continues, and the new urbanizations springing up in all directions are creating fresh engineering problems. 1965 Economist 8 May 655/2 The few towns along the so-called line-of-rail, the thin strip of urbanisation in which is concentrated..the country's economic activity. 2001 A. Sayle Dog Catcher 4 He paid for the rented flat in a smart urbanisation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1888 |
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