[f. next + -ATION.] The process of investing with an urban character; the condition of being urbanized.
Freq., esp. in journalistic use, since 1904.
1888. Advance (Chicago), 8 March, 152. One of the most remarkable characteristics of the time is ‘the urbanization of the country.’
1904. Parl. Rep. Comm. Phys. Degeneration, 16. The ‘urbanization’ of the population cannot have been unattended by consequences prejudicial to the health of the people.
