urban

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or located in a city.
  2. adjective Characteristic of the city or city life.

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  • So, close to 200,000 people a day migrate from the rural to the urban areas. —  Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
  • But I think people have recognized the sanctity of our urban areas. —  Rob Forbes on ways of seeing
  • The change reduces the way heat accumulates in built-up areas - known as the urban heat island effect - and allows people who live and work inside to switch off power-hungry air conditioning units. —  Locally Grown
  • "That every city in North America have an urban agriculture centre; centres based on real urban or peri-urban farms that model not only the social, and cultural and ecological benefits of farming in the city, but the economic benefits as well" —  Progressive Bloggers
  • Smaller British ground units based in non-urban areas were on call to put down attempted coups against the king or army mutinies. —  LewRockwell.com
 

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  1. Latin urbānus, from urbs, urb-, city.

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  1. = French urbain = Spanish Portuguese Italian urbano, from Latin urbanus, of or pertaining to a city or city life, hence polite, refined, urbane; as a noun, a dweller in a city; from urbs, city. Cf. suburb, suburban. Cf. also urbane.
 

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