urban

Universal Words adjective [onlybeforenoun] connected with a town or city: damage to both urban and rural environments * urban areas / centres / populations * urban life / unrest * urban development (= the process of building towns and cities or making them larger) * urban renewal / regeneration (= the process of improving the buildings, etc. in the poor parts of a town or city) * efforts to control urban sprawl (= the spread of city buildings into the countryside) compareRURAL