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January 20, 2009

urban

Urban

urban (adjective) - in the city (See Wikipedia)

urbanization (noun) 
urbanized (adjective)

urbane (adjective) - a person who is polite and appears comfortable in social situations, cultured, refined

an urban myth, urban legend - a strange and surprising story that many people believe is true but actually is not true (See Wikipedia)

prosperous urban merchants
yuppies, young urban professionals

the urban proletariat
urban industrial workers
the drab utilitarianism of urban existence

urban unemployment

they bulldozer places and call it urban renewal
urban green areas
urban squalor
urban deprivation

we're not very urban here, so I'm more of a country girl
urban versus rural areas

a living laboratory of urban development
urban centers

urban areas
urban life has encroached upon the countryside

urban neighborhoods
vast tracts of our cities are falling into urban regression
urban drug addicts

we have whole urban neighborhoods in all of our great central cities where gunfire is a routine sound

 urban smog over our major cities

less destructive weapons are needed for urban warfare
electric cars outsmart downtown traffic and cut urban smog

urban Development

urban crime
the urban night
urban darkness
urban decay
urban debris
urban garbage

the idiocy of urban life have replaced the inspiration of ruralism, of living and working on the land

far from all the urban refugees could find agricultural employment
a wickedly funny look at urban dreamers


urban districts
urban population
an urban dweller
urban communities
urban ghettos
urban sprawl
urban metropolitan area
urban metropolis
urban versus suburban
urban intelligentsia

urban despair
urban youth
urban violence

urban removal programs
urban renewal programs

urban terrorists
indiscriminate urban terrorism
men trained for combat now serving on the frontlines of the urban battlefield
urban life
urban maladies
urban world

the urban workforce
urban experiences
renewed official panic over the urban poor
the urban masses

urban environment

urban professionals
urban children

urban recycling center
the urban menace

urban landscape

urban homesteading

urban art centers
urban minority community
urban ethnic groups

the first urban domino to fall
New York to itself, still offers us the eternal fairy tale of urban life-as-possibility

urban consumer price index
urban initiatives
third urban regeneration phase
stark urban structures

the urban dimension
development as a capitalist urban locality


Example sentences:

* Unfortunately, much of the drab utilitarianism of urban existence has come to be associated with the design philosophy of functionalism.

* As built, the urban network consists of the primary cycle routes which give access to schools, workplaces, the city centre, the railway station and recreational facilities throughout the city.

* Back on top form, the new Robert De Niro starrer Night And The City , a remake of the 1950 Jules Dassin film noir , is a wickedly funny look at urban dreamers.

* It is possible to see the development of Minoan civilization encapsulated in the developments of the urban centres, and the administrative control of the whole territory's economy was central tot hat urban development.

* This labour supply was exploited to the full by farmers, though far from all the urban refugees could find agricultural employment.

* Between 1801 and 1851 the area's population doubled and it doubled again from 1851 to 1921, the year that saw the culmination of the first phase of the town's development as a capitalist urban locality.

* The agricultural past thus shows through into the urban present.

* Indians formed the mainstay of the urban workforce and (along with Chinese) provided the infrastructure of trade and manufacturing.

* Her model was Greenwich Village, New York, not readily transferable to British urban experiences, but her book Death and life in great American cities struck a chord in British planning.

* In an immediate sense, purity campaigns for more stringent legislation coincided with the renewed official panic over the urban poor in the 1880s.

* As a result, the urban masses turned to the Labour Party and the suburbanites in self-defence to the Tories.

* Both the SSA increase and the experimental urban crime fund demonstrate clearly the Government's continuing commitment to a high level of police funding.

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