urbanism

From urban +‎ -ism.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɜː(ɹ)bənɪzəm/

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urbanism (countable and uncountable, plural urbanisms)

1. The study of cities, their geographic, economic, political, social, and cultural environment.

   Coordinate terms: urban studies, urbanology

2. The culture or way of life of people who live in cities.

   Synonym: urbiculture

3. Urbanization.
4. Urban planning.
   • 2008, Diego Ramirez-Lovering, Opportunistic Urbanism, RMIT Publishing, →ISBN, page 125:

     Simultaneously there has been a growing disenchantment with the conventional face of urban design as it is practiced in the West, alongside demands for a new and emerging urbanism that is responsive to the everyday life of the city: […]

• urbanist

• urbanism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Bruinsma, Namburis, Umbrians

Borrowed from French urbanisme.

urbanism n (uncountable)

1. urbanism, urban planning