Urban Process Adjective ˈɜːbən ˈɜːrbən Rural Communities Areas/Centres

• urban and rural communities
• urban areas/centres
• the urban environment/landscape
• urban development (= the process of building towns and cities or making them larger)

urban

1. connected with a town or city
• COMPARE rural
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/rural
• urban and rural communities
• urban areas/centres
• the urban environment/landscape
• urban development (= the process of building towns and cities or making them larger)
• urban renewal/regeneration (= the process of improving the buildings, etc. in the poor parts of a town or city)
• efforts to control urban sprawl (= the spread of city buildings into the countryside)
• The urban poor feel betrayed by everyone.
• urban life
• the urban population
• people of earlier generations who had not grown up in an urban setting
• the efficient use of urban space
• key principles of urban design
2. connected with types of music such as rhythm and blues, reggae, soul, etc. that are played by black musicians
• today’s urban music scene
• urban radio shows

Word Origin

• early 17th cent.: from Latin urbanus, from urbs, urb- ‘city’.