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Emerging markets over the longterm will continue to urbanize along with rising incomes.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

It was such an incredible moment to mobilize the whole country to urbanize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Many cities have pushed back, arguing that so many more homes will more rapidly urbanize their suburban communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024

“How we urbanize is more important than how fast we urbanize,” said Suhasini Ayer, an architect whose mixed-use development in Auroville recently won a design award at the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2022

The urbanites had best not forget that the farmland which they desire to urbanize produces the food that keeps them alive.

From Down with the Cities by Tadashi Nakashima

“It’s a street that’s stuck in time” and that’s just now waking up as Burien urbanizes, said Councilmember Jimmy Matta, who lives near Chelsea Park.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2023

As Nigeria urbanizes, children’s help is not needed in fields; the extended families have broken down.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2012

The U.S. had evolved from a predominantly agrarian to an urbanized, industrial society, and its institutions needed to evolve as well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Their society was highly organized, urbanized, and supported by advanced agricultural techniques tailored to local conditions.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026

The island’s cities are dense and highly urbanized, making it easy for small stores to capture heavy foot traffic.

From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026

That’s far less than in more urbanized and wealthier counties in the state such as Richland, Greenville, and Beaufort.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024

In the main, this delicately balanced state of affairs has not greatly altered since the Civil War, save in those parts of the South which have been industrialized or urbanized.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

By 1850, more than 8% of the population lived in a top-20 city, driven largely by the urbanizing Northeast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The research found that WUI areas are expanding worldwide, especially in rapidly urbanizing regions in Africa.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

The losses, mostly driven by habitat destruction on the rapidly urbanizing continent, could prove catastrophic to ecosystem health.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 4, 2024

It reverberates in the bustle and thrum of the continent’s ballooning cities, their hectic streets jammed with new arrivals, that make Africa the most rapidly urbanizing continent on earth.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2023

In proportion to the nearness to the city, there has been a distinct urbanizing of rural life.

From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by George Walter Fiske