Synonym: citified, civic, metropolitan, municipal. Antonym: rural. Similar words: suburban, suburb, disturb, verbal, garbage, verbatim, ban, band. Meaning: ['ɜrbən /'ɜːbən] adj. 1. relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area 2. located in or characteristic of a city or city life.
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61. Young people have been leaving the countryside in large numbers for urban areas.
62. But social workers say that this has created a culture of dependency, particularly in urban areas.
63. He spoke angrily about the condition of the urban poor.
64. Traffic noise, pollution, huge concrete buildings - how can people survive in the urban jungle?
65. City residents also blame migrant workers for the sharp rise in the urban crime rate.
66. The government is spending billions of dollars on new urban rail projects.
67. The Minister said the Urban Development Corporation was now transforming the area.
68. City residents complain that migrant workers have threatened to take already scarce urban jobs.
69. The highest rates of unemployment occur in the inner urban areas.
70. He lists a handful of false virus alerts and urban myths.
71. All this gave powerful ammunition to urban sociologists writing from the mid-1970s onwards.
72. I have heard this concern raised particularly in urban areas with high concentrations of minority and disadvantaged young people.
73. The urban renewal administrative process drew considerable criticism because it was so long and encumbered with red tape.
74. The authors point out that their study was done in a rural area and results may differ with urban clients.
75. In the fifth century the popes embarked, in alliance with the local aristocracy, on a programme of urban renewal.
76. There is a brooding quiet over everything, a perfect antidote to urban clamour.
77. An innovative renewal programme gave the urban poor legal protection, provided basic amenities and encouraged self-help work.
78. Meanwhile, authorities can take advantage of experience with the existing system in both rural and urban areas.
79. It is composed of species adapted to the urban environment and is influenced strongly by the availability of seeds.
80. The main point to make about the Programme Authorities was that their total allocations from the Urban Programme were very small.
81. They were expected to attend the urban celebrations of the great festivals and took part in the pageantry and the festivities.
82. In spite of the variations, crime rates are significantly higher in urban areas than in rural areas.
83. The industrialized world now contributes about $ 1 billion per year through bilateral aid programs to relieve urban congestion.
84. Given the complexities and plural nature of urban development other agencies must be closely involved.
85. Mr. Bowis Does my hon. Friend agree that a curse of modern urban living is musical mega-decibels in the night?
86. Maricopa County started growing faster than any urban area except San Antonio.
87. Lax local authority policies and the undermining of policies of restraint on appeal, severely undermine processes of urban regeneration.
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88. This difference in prescribing between rural and urban areas was found almost exclusively in patients not attending a hospital diabetic clinic.
89. We will double the number of Safer Cities Schemes to cover 40 urban areas.
90. It will almost certainly place additional costs on local government generally, and urban authorities in particular.