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urbanistic

[ur-buh-nis-tik]

adjective

of or pertaining to urbanism.

Origin:
urban(ism) + -istic

Related forms

ur·ban·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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Urbanistic is always a great word to know.

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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"Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion."

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