urbanization
The concept of new urbanism focuses on traditional town forms, emphasising the need for a recognisable centre, such as a square or public hall.
The old part of town is delightful: Basque urbanism at its most attractive.
The rise of urbanism brought with it a rise in crime.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
aerotropolis
anti-city
anti-urban
backwater
boom town
burgher
Cantabrigian
central city
civic
conurbation
garden city
metropolitan elite
multi-city
municipal
native place
non-municipal
open city
small-town
smoke
urbanite

Examples of urbanism

urbanism
Despite being a tautology the term 'urbanism', in the sense of 'architectural urbanism', has been a successful rhetoric for architecture over the last two decades.
Why exactly do we need an 'urbanism' to argue for the relevance of architecture to cities?
With the preliminary survey, a 'science of urbanism' was born, related to the administration.
The penultimate part analyses the ideological, physical, and environmental impact on the countryside of urbanism and urbanization.
As a broad cultural phenomenon, the rediscovery of urbanism in this historical period is both ensnaring and liberating at the same time.
More significantly, urbanism has failed as a rhetoric because of internal contradictions, mistaken objects and a general lack of critical theory.
The patio house was a key element of this new urbanism and the subject of considerable research.
Whereas the gothic novel depicted the historical end of feudalism, the journey-to-the-city novel depicted the beginning of urbanism.
He has published and lectured widely on the politics and social history of architecture and urbanism.
From this exurbia the authors deduce lessons for a nimble and adaptable urbanism.
One might also speak of an ecological urbanism.
By contrast, evaluation of developmental urbanism is more like interpretation of a historical event.
Perceptions of race, ethnicity and culture became embedded in the struggle to depict and interpret a new urbanism.
The essays are divided into three parts: architecture and urbanism, icon and mural painting and decorative arts.
Whereas earlier critics established that women's role in a new urbanism had been effectively erased, current scholars are still working to respond to this insight.
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