Meaning of urbania | Babel Free

Definitions

Urban areas collectively, as opposed to suburbia.

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“These are the costs of ghetto life, of restricted choice of dwelling place by Negroes, of a shortage of housing, of the low-income status of Chicago's Negroes, of the segregated educational system existing in Chicago, of the cultural deprivation of the Negro community, and of the whole vicious cycle of conditions which aggravate and reproduce what is so well-known to and so disliked by all students of modern urbania.”

“While we all appreciate the problems of metropolitan areas, I think we are already overfeeding such sections with liberal doses of Federal money. I would like to see less Federal aid for urbania, despite the lure to the politicians of the hundreds of thousands of voters assembled in such centers.”

“Let us ask ourselves the hard questions: Do we as a people really abhor violence? We are obviously concerned about crime. But to what extent? Perhaps our feelings about violence are not as strong as we think. With the Increasing incidence of crime there has been a sharp rise in the number of people who obtain weapons for self-defense, It is reminiscent of the era of the armed frontiersman, but the dangerous difference is that the sparse frontier has given way to heavily populated urbania. I leave to your imagination the tragic consequence of a shot fired in a downtown shopping area or even on a neighborhood street.”

“All too often it is these that are the sweet mysteries of life in modern urbania.”

“American megalopili^([sic]) are concerned with metropolitan government—medium-sized centers are consolidating urban communities and semirural suburbs—but rural areas, where the crowding of population and other difficulties which afflict urbania are not yet problems, are unique.”

“The theory is that people flock inexorably from small towns and the countryside to live in American's cities. Why worry too much about rural housing, the reasoning goes, when people are moving to urbania anyway?”

“Having lived in urbania all my life, I was always advised, warned and just plain harassed by all my superiors not to ever dream of thumbing a ride.”

“Despite appearances, the City Walls Project, the painted walls, have nothing to do with graffiti. Moreover, they are prior to graffiti and will survive it. The initiative for these painted walls comes from the top as an innovatory attempt to enliven urbania set up with municipal subsidies.”

“Like many other residents who had watched Vegas transform over the years, he had realized that the city was experiencing a remarkable population explosion: the opposite of Atlantic City, where the surrounding urbania declined as the casinos moved in, Vegas had been in an almost constant state of boom for the past four decades.”

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