Example sentences for: urbanism

How can you use “urbanism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After a class on New Urbanism, where I showed them several projects and took them to see Kentlands, a large planned community in Maryland, I asked them to write a paper about the subject.

  • That is why the fears expressed by Ross and to a lesser extent by Frantz and Collins about corporate urbanism are misplaced.

  • Were the faux-neighborliness and picture-perfectness a hint that he considers the planned community, with its gingerbread cottages and white-picket fences and Yale-trained architects and grand terminology ("The New Urbanism") and grander utopian ideals, a Potemkin Village?

  • Mass commitment to urbanism has never existed in the United States--even in New York, which seems more urban than it really is because it annexed most of its suburbs (that is, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island) long ago.

  • But almost no new private residential developments, including New Urbanism, have succeeded at mixing incomes to any considerable degree (the exception are Hope VI projects, which do achieve income mixing, although they are still too new to draw categorical conclusions from).


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