Phrase Hound found 86 phrases and 44 compound words that contain urban. The most common are listed below. Open urban in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 86
- urban planningThe conscious design of towns and cities.
- urban legendA widely circulated story that is untrue or dubious, often having elements of humor or horror.
- urban renewalA process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.
- Urban areas
- urban sprawlAn unplanned, disorganized growth of housing etc. on the edge of a city.
- Urban Area
- Urban Development
- Keith Urban
- Urban Design
- Urban environment
- Urban centers
- urban legendsplural of urban legend: A widely circulated story that is untrue or dubious, often having elements of humor or horror.
- urban furnitureItems, objects, and equipment installed in public areas, such as urban parks, and streets, and including such elements as traffic signs, park benches, bollards, and public fountains.
- Urban growth
- Urban Population
- urban studiesThe study of the urban development of cities.
- urban plannerA specialist in urban planning.
- urban-type settlementan official designation for a semi-urban settlement (or a former town) in the Soviet Union, Poland (formerly), Bulgaria (formerly) and in 10 post-Soviet republics—Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan …
- urban fantasyA subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.
- urban warfarecombat conducted in towns and cities
- peri-urbanImmediately adjoining an urban area; between the suburbs and the countryside.
- urban explorerA person who explores restricted urban areas such as abandonments, tunnels, roofs, construction sites, etc. Certain non-urban sites can also count, such as mines, quarries, and grain/missile silos.
- urban districta type of local government district, which was created in 1894 in urbanised areas of England and Wales outside boroughs, and in 1898 in Ireland. Abolished in 1974 except those in the Republic of Ireland, which were retitled as towns in …
- urban explorationThe exploration of man-made, particularly urban, environments; such exploration in places which are not normally accessible due to prohibited access or abandonment.
- urban warriorOne who lives in a city and has an aggressive, competitive attitude which tends to be focused on physical activity.
Compound words 44
- suburbanRelating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.
- urbanityBehaviour that is polished, refined, courteous.
- urbanistA person who studies cities and their growth.
- urbaniaUrban areas collectively, as opposed to suburbia.
- rurbanOf or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.
- intraurbanWithin an urban area.
- urbanonymThe name of an urban element (street, square etc.) in towns and cities.
- antiurbanShowing a negative view of cities or city life
- cyburbanRelated to online communities or cyberspace.
- exurbA residential area beyond the suburbs.