urbanization
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- n the condition of being urbanized
- n the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
- One theory is that AIDS started through contact with infected monkeys in a remote area and spread to the rest of the population through urbanization and mass inoculations.
- Mines dot the pathways of migratory animals, and unchecked urbanization is putting pressure on scarce resources.
- Historians have long sung the praises of the potato when talking about the boom in population and urbanization we saw in the 18th and 19th centuries.