Urbanization is the process through which cities grow, and higher and higher percentages of the population comes to live in the city.

What does urbanization mean in your own words?

Urbanization is a word for becoming more like a city. When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. ... For example, if they stop driving their cars and instead rely on public transportation, as most people in cities do, that's urbanization.

What is urbanization example?

Urbanization describes both the increase in the percentage of a population that lives in cities as well as the increase in the size of those cities. ... Every city since the dawn of mankind is an example of increasing urbanization, but two examples are 19th-century London and modern-day Zhangzhou.