Expansion of cities into rural regions because of population growth. In most cases, population growth is primarily due to the movement of rural based people to urban areas. This is especially true in [..]

Growth in the proportion of a population living in urban areas.

Urbanisation

1888, noun of action from urbanize.

process in which there is an increase in the number of people living and working in a city or metropolitan area.

the increasing percentage of a population living in urban areas due to rural-urban migration and higher levels of natural increase in the urban areas.

Growth of cities and a movement of populations to cities. Urbanization causes economic and cultural changes that affect people in both urban and rural areas. In the time leading up to and during the C [..]

The increasing concentration of the human population into cities. 

An increasing concentration of the population in cities and a transformation of land use to an urban pattern of organization. urban renewal

noun. 1. the popularity toward residing in cities, that are defined by the U.S. Bureau of the Census as having populaces of fifty thousand or more people. 2. the undertaking of becoming a community wi [..]

When people begin to move to cities to live and work.

The process of becoming urban. The term is usually used to describe either the processes by which cities and towns grow, or the dynamic processes through which people, ideas, and places become more de [..]

growth of urban areas caused by people moving into cities. urea

The conversion of land from a natural state or managed natural state (such as agriculture) to cities; a process driven by net rural-to-urban migration through which an increasing percentage of the pop [..]

The growth of cities.

(n) the condition of being urbanized(n) the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban

(English) The expansion of urban areas (cities) and the increase of development associated with that expansion.

The process by which a growing proportion of people live in towns and cities, and the social and other changes which accompany this process.

The process by which increasing number of people come to live in cities.

The gradual shift of a population from rural (country) living to city life.

The process whereby a society changes from a rural to an urban way of Life. It refers also to the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas.

The process whereby a society changes from a rural to an urban way of life. It refers also to the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas.

The process by which an area of land becomes more urban in character, developed and otherwise changed to more closely resemble a city or town.

Expansion of cities into rural regions because of population growth. In most cases, population growth is primarily due to the movement of rural based people to urban areas. This is especially true in Less Developed Countries.

Cities first arose in the Fertile Crescent a few thousand years after the discovery of agriculture. Yet the history of urbanization is not one of steady ...

Growth in the proportion of a population living in urban areas.

in general, the historical process describing the growth of towns in modern society, implying a change in the socio-economic and demographic structure of a population, an urban way of life and new settlement.

an increase in the ratio or density of people living in urban areas rather than in rural areas

The migration of people in substantial numbers frm rural to urban areas. Urbanization is charcteristic of regions in the aerly stages of industrialization and is marked in third world coutries.

The process of forming a culture based in cities

the process of human movement and centralization towards and into cities and urban areas.

The development of cities and towns on formerly agricultural or natural lands.

Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this cha [..]

Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this cha [..]

Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this cha [..]