English-Portuguese translations for urbanization

• urbanização
  Ora, há que apontar, como opção prioritária, a redução do processo de urbanização do território europeu. Instead, priority must go to reducing the process of urbanization in Europe.
  No entanto, o nível de urbanização na União tem crescido continuamente. Nevertheless, the degree of urbanization in the Union has been continuously increasing.
  No decorrer do processo de urbanização, surgiram na sociedade novos problemas, como a solidão, os problemas da droga e do ambiente. Urbanization has brought with it new problems for society, such as exclusion, drugs and environmental problems.

Definition of urbanization

• the process of the formation and growth of cities
• the proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing

Related words

• suburbanization
• deurbanization
• antiurbanization
• peri-urbanization
• reurbanization
• periurbanization
• rurbanization