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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91. On the other hand, in urban areas there are now more opportunities for women with high school education to find jobs.
92. Most of the conflicts concerning agriculture and amenity also occur in a particularly acute form on the urban fringe.
93. The government ration card system allows an urban family to buy a case of imported beer for about 400 Kwanza.
94. Some states counted administrative areas as urban units, and some counted agglomerations of a certain number of people.
95. Increasingly, Labour and Conservative support has become polarized between North and South and between urban and rural areas.
96. Elsewhere, urban centres did not experience the anticipated post-war expansion in liberal adult education.
97. The old values which had underpinned Britain when it was an agrarian society were threatened by a new urban poor.
98. The SDOs for the urban development areas do likewise for urban development corporations.
99. This was most apparent in the approach to the problems of urban unemployment.
100. Large numbers of important military installations are located in or immediately adjacent to urban areas.
101. The modern police services in Britain originated in the needs of the growing urban areas at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
102. In 1968 the neighborhood development program was initiated by Congress, providing an alternative approach to large-scale urban renewal.
103. In 1991, the city was divided into 16 administrative areas or regions through negotiations between urban residents and the municipal authorities.
104. The New Urban Left councils aroused considerable hostility from the government, and some anxiety from the leadership of the Labour party.
105. In an urban environment, basement flats are not advisable for the single dweller.
106. The pressure was still so great by 1924 that 40 percent of all urban youths under the age of 18 were unemployed.
107. The urban street and the rural village are both, in their different ways, educational backwaters.
108. The police report that over 40 percent of burglaries of urban dwellings are break-ins to basement flats.
109. The eventual urban appellations reflected the flavor of the individual faces: New York, Geneva, Chicago, and so on.
110. Despite this prudent, but politically damaging, platform, the party made gains, mainly in urban areas.
111. In other urban areas, 816 permits were issued in San Antonio, or one every 1, 192 residents.
112. The private sector also offered an alternative system for delivery of urban Services.
113. One influential argument about urban decline has been put forward by Fothergill and Gudgin and their associates.
114. The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible.
115. Chapter 3 offers an alternative view of mainstream modernism-as fundamentally pragmatic, optimistic and urban.
116. The Reagan New Federalism also signalled an increased dependence of urban areas on state government.
117. It refers to urban decline and work on rural and coastal areas.
118. Findings include: Some 600 million people live in urban areas where the average level of sulphur dioxide pollution endangers their lives.
119. Similarly(sentencedict.com/urban.html), the increasing use of urban development corporations ind Whitehall grants in inner cities would further undermine local authorities.
120. During the period 1990-90, urban areas expanded at the rate of 11,000 ha per year.