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Urbanization in sentence

359 examples of Urbanization in a sentence

The world is changing though, and urbanization is a big driver of everything.
It was just a much smaller city, and the pace of urbanization is incredible and enormous.
Because the new technologies, they seem to be in a really interesting position to contribute to the solutions of urbanization and to provide us with better environments.
And the tsunami of problems that we feel we're facing in terms of sustainability questions are actually a reflection of the exponential increase in urbanization across the planet.
However, it's hard sometimes to remember the extent of that urbanization.
For the past decade or so, a massive urbanization and development have let us witness a lot of reports on the forced demolition of private property.
And that urbanization is extraordinary, accelerated pace.
And quite interestingly, over something like a 60-year period, we're seeing the doubling in life expectancy, over that period where the urbanization has trebled.
When we use the word "architect" or "designer," what we usually mean is a professional, someone who gets paid, and we tend to assume that it's those professionals who are going to be the ones to help us solve the really big, systemic design challenges that we face like climate change, urbanization and social inequality.
So if we're serious about problems like climate change, urbanization and health, actually, our existing development models aren't going to do it.
We are living through an amazing urbanization trend.
It's particularly a cultural crisis, a crisis of the institutions unable to reimagine the stupid ways which we have been growing, unable to challenge the oil-hungry, selfish urbanization that have perpetuated cities based on consumption, from southern California to New York to Dubai.
So I've been arguing in the last years that, in fact, the slums of Tijuana can teach a lot to the sprawls of San Diego when it comes to socioeconomic sustainability, that we should pay attention and learn from the many migrant communities on both sides of this border wall so that we can translate their informal processes of urbanization.
I'm really just talking about the compendium of social practices of adaptation that enable many of these migrant communities to transgress imposed political and economic recipes of urbanization.
I just want to suggest that this informal urbanization is not just the image of precariousness, that informality here, the informal, is really a set of socioeconomic and political procedures that we could translate as artists, that this is about a bottom-up urbanization that performs.
Instead, countries where urbanization has already peaked seem to be the very countries in which cities have stopped making us happy.
We're all familiar with the macro impact of urbanization, climate change, resource exploitation, but when that one last plant — or animal for that matter — when that very last specimen has disappeared from the face of this Earth, we would have lost an entire subset of the Earth's biology, and with it, important plants with medicinal potential or which could have ingredients that would speak to the cosmetic, nutrition, pharma, and even the ethno-veterinary sectors, be gone forever.
It used to grow on the mainland, but through the sheer pressures of urbanization has been pushed out of the mainland, and we've managed to bring it back from the brink of extinction by developing in vitro plants which are now growing in the wild.
Let's start with the global challenge of urbanization.
And this expansion in urbanization is going to be neither even nor equitable.
No, it's the speed of urbanization that matters.
And it's even more acute in countries like China, where a process of rapid urbanization, mass migration, has left older people alone in the villages.
How have we reached such a high degree of urbanization, and what does it mean for our future?
Connectivity has a twin megatrend in the 21st century: planetary urbanization.
Now, for many people, urbanization causes great dismay.
And all of these intercity networks are devoted to one purpose, mankind's number one priority in the 21st century: sustainable urbanization.
Inequality is the other great challenge to achieving sustainable urbanization.
First, our model of transportation and urbanization is broken, so this is the best moment to redefine our urban and mobility future.
In a G-Zero world, it is absolutely an amazing time for a few African countries, those governed well with a lot of urbanization, a lot of smart people, women really getting into the workforce, entrepreneurship taking off.
And yet, capitalism and urbanization have propelled age bias into every corner of the globe, from Switzerland, where elders fare the best, to Afghanistan, which sits at the bottom of the Global AgeWatch Index.
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