How to Use urbanization in a Sentence

urbanization

noun
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  • The boars are a sad metaphor for urbanization gone wrong.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Many worry about the wildlife squeezed out by urbanization, but Lisa Bates resolved to do something about it.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The rest of the increase was due to climate change and additional heat due to urbanization.
    — NBC News, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Because of urbanization and the threats against its natural habitat, the maned wolf was once on the verge of extinction.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 8 July 2022
  • But wildlife seemed to cope better with urbanization in cities that were cool or lush — homes to plenty of healthy, green plant life — than in those that were warmer or more barren.
    — Emily Anthes, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • As property prices climbed with this urbanization, so did Mr. Xu’s wealth.
    — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The film explores the collision of nature and urbanization.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Meanwhile, rapid urbanization and climate change loom over the island.
    — Sarah Choi, ELLE Decor, 4 Mar. 2022
  • As smart cities are on the extreme end of the urbanization spectrum, the waste generated in such places is expectedly huge.
    — Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Orton said urbanization is likely part of the reason for the devastation seen across the Northeast.
    — Rachel Ramirez and Drew Kann, CNN, 5 Sep. 2021
  • But San Diegans have shown little tolerance for the snarling traffic and parking wars that come with such urbanization.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
  • People move around anyway, and urbanization has been growing for decades.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 14 Sep. 2021
  • On Tuesday, Hong pointed to slowing rates of urbanization, with fewer rural Chinese moving to the cities for work.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Ocelots were once abundant in the high Sonoran Desert, but their numbers plummeted as hunters sought their fur and urbanization encroached on their habitat.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2023
  • But the river can’t protect itself against all effects of urbanization.
    — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The connection between urbanization and heat risks will become more urgent as more people around the world move to urban areas.
    — Terri Adams-Fuller, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • To add to the pressure, as the water levels in the Gulf of Thailand rise, the city of nearly 11 million people, which sits at about 1.5 meters above sea level, is sinking due to growing urbanization.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Some species of butterflies, like the western monarch, are well adapted to finding new habitat when urbanization threatens their land.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Smith: There are always going to be challenges with urbanization.
    — Jim Turner, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Over the past eight decades, the country has seen an exodus from rural areas into cities, and urbanization has led to longer working schedules and commutes.
    — Christine Mui, Fortune, 30 July 2022
  • The rapid urbanization process in African cities leaves room for local artistic and cultural influences to be harnessed.
    — Meron Demisse, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The authors believe that this increase in scent marking is directly tied to this increase in urbanization.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Cities, in particular, will warm faster as a result of urbanization.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 10 Aug. 2021
  • But in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, there has been urbanization without economic growth.
    — Kathryn Grace, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Rapid growth and urbanization, along with an explosion of car ownership, drove a huge uptick in polluting emissions.
    — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • Scientists blame the effects of climate change and urbanization.
    — Brittyn Clennett, ABC News, 22 July 2021
  • Useless to people, most thorn scrub has been removed as agriculture, urbanization and the border wall consume much of southern Texas’s landscape.
    — Amy Mathews Amos, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Despite the city having increased its sanitation budget, Ms. Marx said, Cape Town has been struggling to keep up with rapid urbanization.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Another factor contributing to the birds' change in route is the urbanization of southern Asian sites the birds previously migrated to.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Rapid urbanization has crowded out much of its ecology.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2023

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