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  2. Suburbanization - Wikipedia

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    Suburbanization (American English), also spelled suburbanisation (British English), is a population shift from historic core cities or rural areas into suburbs. Most suburbs are built in a formation of (sub)urban sprawl . [ 1 ]

  3. Urban sprawl - Wikipedia

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    Measures for urban sprawl in Europe: upper left the Dispersion of the built-up area (DIS), upper right the weighted urban proliferation (WUP). The term urban sprawl was often used in the letters between Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn, [17] firstly by Osborn in his 1941 letter to Mumford and later by Mumford, generally condemning the waste of agricultural land and landscape due to ...

  4. Urbanization - Wikipedia

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    Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It can also mean population growth in urban areas instead of rural ones. [1]

  5. Suburb - Wikipedia

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    The English word is derived from the Old French subburbe, which is in turn derived from the Latin suburbium, formed from sub (meaning "under" or "below") and urbs ("city"). "). The first recorded use of the term in English according to the Oxford English Dictionary [7] appears in Middle English c. 1350 in the manuscript of the Midlands Prose Psalter, [8] in which the form suburbes is

  6. Urbanization in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The urbanization of the United States occurred over a period of many years, with the nation only attaining urban-majority status between 1910 and 1920. [2] Currently, over four-fifths of the U.S. population resides in urban areas. [2]

  7. Urban planning - Wikipedia

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    The traditional justification for urban planning has in response been that the planner does to the city what the engineer or architect does to the home, that is, make it more amenable to the needs and preferences of its inhabitants. [34]

  8. Suburbanization of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Suburbanization of the United States

  9. Counterurbanization - Wikipedia

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    Counterurbanization, Ruralization or deurbanization is a demographic and social process in which people move from urban areas to rural areas.It, as suburbanization, is inversely related to urbanization, and first occurs as a reaction to inner-city deprivation. [1]