0 to build houses, offices, etc. in an area of countryside so that it becomes a town
1 to build on land in the countryside so that the area becomes part of a town or city:
He is caught at a turning point between an older rural world and a more modern, urbanizing one.
The northern end of the borough is urbanized with the rest, with its mountains and ravines, designated as a conservation zone.
The central island is heavily urbanized, with the built-up area taking up essentially its entire landmass.
The third airfield was built in the north end of town in the 1980s but has now been urbanized.
Of the county's 2.2 million total residents (as of 2000), approximately 52% live in unincorporated areas, the majority of which are heavily urbanized.
Now almost all of the land in the borough has been urbanized, with only the highest elevations and a few family farm plots without buildings.
The metropolis grows, attracting people from the countryside, who, however, as soon as they are urbanized, become - just like the pre-existing population - infertile.
Its watershed is 15 percent urbanized, 35 percent agricultural, and 50 percent forested.
