urbanize
In one five-year period we saw a 12 percent increase in the amount of urbanized land.
It's always difficult to build in already urbanized communities, because there is no open space.
As the world's developing nations have become more urbanized, their birthrates have fallen dramatically.
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
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Civil engineering in general