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relating to a city

want to revitalize the downtown and limit urban sprawl

He is interested in controlling urban development to reduce projected traffic congestion.
She studied urban planning.
He's a trailblazing professor of education at the University of Illinois who often works at solving the dilemmas of educating the urban poor.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

urban = relating to a city

urban sociology
Knox was talking specifically about New York City, but his concluding thoughts on this process could be applied to all large urban centers.
Jim Murphy -- The Great Fire
In the weeks before the dinner I went on several urban scouting expeditions.
Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma
The living language of our time, born spontaneously and naturally in accord with its spirit, is the language of urban-ism.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
The owner of the urban bus company had offered his whole fleet to bring thousands of people to the airport for free.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
Yet this tension exists within the limits of urban life, undermining it and supporting it in the same gesture of being.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
Walls had been constructed out of wood, scrap metal, cars, anything big and strong enough to protect what was inside: a mostly burned-out urban center.
James Dashner -- The Kill Order
He arrived home almost cheerful without being aware either that he had been frightened by crowds or soothed by non-existent dangers of an urban forest.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
Millions of people in America's urban centers helplessly watched the red spots spread over their bodies.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
The area was in the process of renovation; however, like similar projects in urban blights the world over, the progress had two speeds: slow and stop.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
Urban Chinese men typically involve themselves more in household tasks like cooking and child care than most American men do.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
Police snipers in urban settings typically shot at ranges under a hundred feet.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
The sign at Rachel's feet said, URBAN ART FOR KIDS, DONATIONS APPRECIATED.
Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
Romanticism was in the main an urban phenomenon.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
I reinterpreted Don Quixote as a modern urban parable and made Sancho the hero.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
Almost a thousand state police officers, many of them there with SWAT teams, armed for urban combat.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun

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