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For the most part, the area was urbanized in the period 1900-1914.

But the district has been urbanized within the last decades.

This section of the city is perhaps the best developed and properly urbanized.

The first smaller section was rapidly urbanized and became one of the most central areas in the city.

On the other hand the entire area is urbanized.

After that it was urbanized with large blocks of flats.

This process may help to urbanize areas as well.

"And as it continues to urbanize, the county becomes more complex.

The main goal is to urbanize the disusing area there.

They are a community of small farmers, although the community is now being urbanized.

The area urbanized following the arrival of its first public and religious institutions in the late nineteenth century.

The basin is one of the three most significant in urbanizing King County.

It is a predominantly rural district with only 7.10 percent of residents that are urbanized.

"And it seems like we're on a fast pace to urbanize our way of thinking, where you can't do anything at all."

This is particularly a concern in emerging, rapidly urbanizing societies.

Today, much of the municipality is urbanized while the businesses are along the main roads.

As Britain became industrialized and urbanized a strictly local system of administration came under strain.

Prior to 2003, the area was mostly agricultural, but is becoming rapidly urbanized.

A great number are now being urbanized, and taking up a number of urban professions.

The migrants were urbanized, in the sense that they lived in cities.

"Tudor City is a highly successful attempt to urbanize that style."

Since 2004 the city comprises the entire island, although not all of its 855.26 square kilometers is urbanized.

This is especially important for the family forest landowners who are frequently at the edges of urbanizing areas.

Meanwhile, the rural population is declining, opening the landscape in areas that are not urbanized.

Urbanize - Invest money in a small city to allow it to receive goods of a specific type.

The band members soon came into conflict with developers who wanted to urbanise the last remaining green belt around London.

In the mid-1940s Luis Barragan began a project to urbanise the area and protect its ecosystem.

He planned to urbanise the Mezzogiorno by granting charters to various towns and encouraging urban planning.

The area began to rapidly urbanise in the mid 19th century, Normanton eventually being absorbed by the expansion of Derby's boundaries up to the 1930s.

The Plaza was merely a gap in the city which, precisely because of the station, began quickly to urbanise its surroundings and improve its appearance with plants and trees.

In the early 20th century, southern Etobicoke began to rapidly urbanise and new municipalities were formed out of Etobicoke which left the rest of the township a rural municipality centred around the Islington postal village at Dundas and Bloor.