Urbanization refers to the process of a place, typically an area that was less developed or rural, transforming into a city or having more urban characteristics. Full definition
What I've realized is that process of urbanization of moving to the city is actually very positive for nature. (environmentalprogress.org)
Many of the studies seem to have mistakenly assumed that if you could divide all the stations into two subsets — one «rural» and one «urban» that this would be sufficient to quantify the amount of urbanization bias in the data. (globalwarmingsolved.com)
The artist's concern about the phenomenon of rapid urbanization in post-Mao China manifests in many of his creations. (artasiapacific.com)