urbanism

English

Etymology

urban +‎ -ism

Noun

urbanism (countable and uncountable, plural urbanisms)

1. The study of cities, their geographic, economic, political, social, and cultural environment.

   Coordinate terms: urban studies, urbanology

2. The culture or way of life of people who live in cities.
3. Urbanization.
4. Urban planning.
   • 2008, Diego Ramirez-Lovering, Opportunistic Urbanism, RMIT Publishing (→ISBN), page 125:

     Simultaneously there has been a growing disenchantment with the conventional face of urban design as it is practiced in the West, alongside demands for a new and emerging urbanism that is responsive to the everyday life of the city: […]

Related terms

• urbanist

Translations

study of cities

• Estonian: urbanistika
• French: urbanisme (fr) m
• German: Urbanistik (de) f

• Italian: urbanistica (it) f
• Luxembourgish: Urbanismus
• Polish: urbanistyka (pl) f
• Romanian: urbanism (ro) n, urbanistică (ro) f

culture of people who live in cities

• Crimean Tatar: urbanizm
• Estonian: urbanism (et)

• German: Stadtleben (de) n
• Irish: uirbeachas m

urbanization — see urbanization

urban planning — see urban planning

Further reading

• urbanism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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