urbania

urbania noun: urban areas collectively, as opposed to suburbia.

Noun

urbania (uncountable)

Urban areas collectively, as opposed to suburbia.
- 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...1959 January, Debbie Meier, “The Public Buys a Ghetto”, in Michael Harrington, editor, Anvil and Student Partisan, volume X, number 1, New York, N.Y., →OCLC, page 19
- 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.1961 March 16, Glenn Cunningham, “A Department of Small Towns and Rural Affairs”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 87ᵗʰ Congress, First Session (House section), volume 107...

All too often it is these that are the sweet mysteries of life in modern urbania.1971, Desmond Morris, “Sexual Intimacy” (chapter 3), in Intimate Behaviour, New York: Random House, →OCLC, page 82:
Why worry too much about rural housing, the reasoning goes, when people are moving to urbania anyway?1975 February 28, Ron Hendren, “Getting a HUD-ache”, in Anne Pautler, editor, UCLA Daily Bruin, volume XCIV, number 38, Los Angeles...
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.1992 March 11, Ari Vais, “Your free clip and save guide to hitchhiking etiquette”, in Mare Elliott, editor, The Massachusetts Daily...
The initiative for these painted walls comes from the top as an innovatory attempt to enliven urbania set up with municipal subsidies.1993, Jean Baudrillard, “The Order of Simulacra”, in Iain Hamilton Grant, transl., Symbolic Exchange and Death, London; Thousand Oaks; New...

From urban + -ia.

What does urbania mean?: Urbania means urban areas collectively, as opposed to suburbia.
How do you use urbania in a sentence?: All too often it is these that are the sweet mysteries of life in modern urbania.
What part of speech is urbania?: Urbania is a noun.

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