urban development
collocation in Englishmeaningsofurbananddevelopment
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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈɜː.bən/us/ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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development
noun
uk/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/us/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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(Definition ofurbananddevelopmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Today their number is decreasing as a result ofurbandevelopmentand the modernization of agriculture.
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Contents include research-based articles, historiographical and methodological surveys, and surveys ofurbandevelopmentin individual countries.
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These peoples maintained a hunting and gathering economy at the same time that maize agriculture had provided the nutritional basis forurbandevelopmentelsewhere.
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Too often our colleagues have chased the leading edge of the wave of (sub)urbandevelopment.
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While towns and cities are frequently unplanned, many are conscious creations or re-creations, and this aspect ofurbandevelopmentproduced a number of theses.
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Althoughurbandevelopmenthas been examined on a global scale,9 studies of individual cities have been most common.
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On the other hand, their influence onurbandevelopmentwas more direct, in that they had to part-finance infrastructural projects.
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How can the architectural discipline survive in and contribute to modern liberal 'unstable'urbandevelopment?
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This view would have implications for our ideas abouturbandevelopmentin this area.
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This observation leads me to give a brief account of theurbandevelopmentof the city, of how it grew out of marshes and waters.
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We can further understand the resistance to developing technologies of sanitation by situating the project of sanitary reform within the larger context ofurbandevelopment.
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These locations also illustrate different pathways regardingurbandevelopment.
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This book addresses the ways in which heritage-orientedurbandevelopmentprojects have been conceived, planned, funded, implemented and sustained on this difficult terrain.
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It further elaborates on the demand to 'improve the seashore' in terms of architecture andurbandevelopment.
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He convincingly demonstrates that military factors, in combination with a wide range of other influences, were fundamental to the indigenous process ofurbandevelopment.
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I suggest three items on an agenda for the politicaleconomical analysis ofurbandevelopmentbelow.
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One of the most remarkable distinctions drawn betweenurbandevelopmentof the pre-modern and modern periods is the emergence of specialist towns.
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