with object‘once an agrarian society, the island has recently been urbanized’
‘Finland is a recently urbanised society - Finland used to be predominantly rural until the late 1940s when it became more industrial.’
‘Japan has been characterized as an affluent and highly mobile and urbanized society, which also appears to be safe and secure.’
‘He did not initially have that much support among the tribal, recently urbanized populations of the middle to lower Euphrates, such as Kut and Amara.’
‘Hospitals, schools, power facilities, water and sewage services, trash collection and every other section of infrastructure required to sustain life in a highly urbanized society have been affected.’
‘More accurately, the dichotomy is between societies which are urbanised and industrialised, and those which derive their livelihoods primarily from the land.’
‘People can't be occupied so easily once they are urbanized, industrialized, literate, connected by modern communications, and politically aware.’
‘In a largely urbanized society, the countryside retained a fierce (perhaps exaggerated) sense of its own needs and identity.’
‘In an already highly urbanised society this doesn't make sense.’
‘Venezuela is one of the most urbanised societies in Latin America.’
‘A strange comment from the Prime Minister of one of the most urbanised societies on earth.’
‘The physical environment is characterized by a chain of mountains (the Jura), a densely urbanized plateau, and the Alps range, which forms a barrier to the south.’
‘Funny how one of the most urbanised societies on earth clings to its foundation myths.’
‘Now we are a largely urbanised society, and the country roots of most people have been severed.’
‘Since the treaty was signed in 1840 and purchases were made until recently, and since Maori have become urbanized, the legitimacy of land claims is complex.’
‘They include tribes on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, although the community has become increasingly urbanized in recent years.’
‘At current rates of sprawl, 25 percent of the nation's coastal watersheds will be urbanized by 2025.’
‘Even though Africa is still predominantly rural, with only about a third of the population living in urban areas, it is urbanizing faster than any other part of the world.’
‘We expect to find that social well-being declines as an area becomes more urbanized.’
‘The country is heavily urbanized, and urban areas have extremely high population densities.’
‘More than one half of Western Europe is already urbanized and there is massive urbanizing elsewhere, particularly in the developing countries.’
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