Below you will find example sentences with "urban growth". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Urban Growth in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: urban
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 10 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "urban growth" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 25.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as urbanization and urban growth in the, africa s urban growth giant, boundary, development and boundaries stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with gdp growth, economic growth, revenue growth, urban area, urban development and urban planning, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with urban growth
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Nigeria is Africa's urban growth giant. (7 words)
The rising pollution levels are rooted in rapid industrialisation and urban growth. (12 words)
Excluding land from development and urban growth puts upward pressure on housing prices. (13 words)
An urban growth boundary, or UGB, is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for higher density urban development and the area outside be used for lower density development. (43 words)
Cross (1979), Urbanization and Urban Growth in the Caribbean, p. 23. Large numbers of unskilled workers were hired to perform repeated tasks, which made if very difficult for these workers to ever leave and pursue any non farming employment. (39 words)
Seven artists will present a variety of pieces that look at the collision of urban growth and the natural world in a free exhibition dubbed “Conduit,” which opens Saturday, Feb. 17 and runs through Sunday, May 19. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
An urban growth boundary, or UGB, is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for higher density urban development and the area outside be used for lower density development.
Some jurisdictions refer to the area within an urban growth boundary as an urban growth area, or UGA.
Urban growth boundaries Related to zoning ordinances, an Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) is a tool that used in some U.S. cities to contain high density development to certain areas.
The so-called urban growth boundary, established by a 1973 law that placed boundaries around cities to prevent urban sprawl and preserve nature and farmland, is seen in the background along SW Tile Flat Road.
Places with urban growth boundaries Albania Albania maintains the 'yellow line' system hailing from its Socialist Regime - limiting urban development beyond a designated boundary for all municipalities.
Portland's urban growth boundary, adopted in 1979, separates urban areas (where high-density development is encouraged and focused) from traditional farm land (where restrictions on non-agricultural development are very strict).
The drive for rapid urban growth and often efficiency can lead to less equitable urban development.
Some of these regulatory approaches such as Urban Growth Boundaries predate the use of the term Smart Growth.
Excluding land from development and urban growth puts upward pressure on housing prices.
Seven artists will present a variety of pieces that look at the collision of urban growth and the natural world in a free exhibition dubbed “Conduit,” which opens Saturday, Feb. 17 and runs through Sunday, May 19.
Youth participants must be between 14-18 years old and either live within the Aspen urban growth boundary or attend the Aspen School District.
Urban growth boundaries created to restrict land development in order to decrease negative impacts on people and the environment can have the reverse effect on water quality.
Nigeria is Africa's urban growth giant.
The rising pollution levels are rooted in rapid industrialisation and urban growth.
As more and more people leave villages and farms to live in cities, urban growth results.
Cross (1979), Urbanization and Urban Growth in the Caribbean, p. 23. Large numbers of unskilled workers were hired to perform repeated tasks, which made if very difficult for these workers to ever leave and pursue any non farming employment.
Cross (1979), Urbanization and Urban Growth in the Caribbean, p. 27. The cities that did exist offered limited opportunities to citizens and almost none for the unskilled masses who had worked in agriculture their entire lives.
Cross (1979), Urbanization and Urban Growth in the Caribbean, p. 3. Sugar was a luxury in Europe prior to the 18th century.
Ebenezer Howard 's influential 1902 diagram, illustrating urban growth through garden city "off-shoots" Planning and architecture went through a paradigm shift at the turn of the 20th century.
Giurescu, p.122, 127 The treaty also allowed Moldavia and Wallachia to freely trade with countries other than the Ottoman Empire, which signalled substantial economic and urban growth, as well as improving the peasant situation.