English-Spanish translations for urbanization

• urbanización
  Sin embargo, el grado de urbanización en la Unión ha ido en constante aumento. Nevertheless, the degree of urbanization in the Union has been continuously increasing.
  Urbanización y aglomeración se han convertido en un problema europeo ya que afectan al bienestar de todos los ciudadanos europeos. Urbanization and agglomeration have become a European problem because they affect the wellbeing of all European citizens.
  Asistimos pues a una aceleración de la urbanización, y de las 79 ciudades que superarán los 4 millones de habitantes, 59 de ellas se encuentran asimismo en países en desarrollo. What we are seeing, then, is an acceleration of the process of urbanization; out of 79 cities numbering more than four million inhabitants, 59 will be located in the developing countries.

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