Related Words for urban sprawl

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sprawl
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Noun
suburbs
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Noun
outskirts
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Noun
slum
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Noun
garden city
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Phrase, Noun
cityscape
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Noun
projects
/x
Noun
bedroom community
/xx/xx
Phrase, Noun
concrete jungle
x//x
Phrase, Noun
developments
x/xx
Noun
metropolis
x/xx
Noun
overcrowding
/xxx
Noun
housing
/x
Noun
outdoors
//
Noun
neighborhood
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Noun
village
/x
Noun
environ
x/x
Name
esplanade
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Noun
yard
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Noun
courtyard
/x
Noun
garden apartment
/xx/x
Phrase, Noun
housing estate
/xx/
Phrase, Noun
squat
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Adjective
plaza
/x
Noun
uptown
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Name
inner city
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
abandonment
x/xx
Noun
industrial park
x/xx/
Name, Name
street
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Noun
expansion
x/x
Noun
shopping center
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
ghetto
/x
Noun
place
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Noun
bypass
/x
Noun
industrial estate
x/xxx/
Name, Name
square
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Noun
open air
/x/
Phrase, Noun
apartment building
x/x/x
Phrase, Noun
barrio
/xx
Noun
shopping
/x
Noun
villa
/x
Noun
midtown
/x
Noun
scheme
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Noun
faubourg
/x
Noun
dormitory
/xxx
Noun
alleyway
/xx
Noun
real estate
/x/
Phrase, Noun
precinct
/x
Noun
strip
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Noun
outside
//
Noun
slip
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Noun
estate
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Noun
intrusion
x/x
Noun
crescent
/x
Noun
studio apartment
/xxx/x
Phrase, Noun
favela
x/x
Noun
heights
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Noun
circus
/x
Noun
colony
/xx
Noun
town
/
Noun
settlement
/xx
Noun
multifamily
xx/xx
Adjective
outpost
/x
Noun
barrack
/x
Noun
avenue
/xx
Noun
debris
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Noun
jungle
/x
Noun
park
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Noun
bungalow
/xx
Noun
strip mall
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Phrase, Noun
commons
/x
Noun
aaron
/x
Name
abolitionist
xx/xx
Noun, Adjective
abortion
x/x
Noun
advanced
x/
Adjective
affluence
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Noun
affluent
/xx
Adjective, Noun
agglomeration
xxx/x
Noun
agrarian
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
agricultural
xx/xx
Adjective, Name
anglo
/x
Name
anticlerical
xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
anticommunist
xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
antipoverty
xx/xx
Adjective
antislavery
xx/xx
Adjective
area
/xx
Noun
asian
/x
Adjective, Name
averaging
/xx
Noun
bourgeois
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
buildup
/x
Noun
busing
/x
Noun
central
/x
Adjective, Noun
cities
/x
Noun
civic
/x
Adjective, Noun
civil
/x
Adjective, Name
civilian
x/x
Adjective, Noun
civilizational
xxx/xx
Adjective
colonial
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
commercial
x/x
Adjective, Noun
communities
x/xx
Noun
conglomeration
xxx/x
Noun
councils
/x
Noun
cultural
/xx
Adjective
decentralization
xxxx/x
Noun
deforestation
xxx/x
Noun
desegregated
x/xxx
Verb, Adjective
disarray
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Noun, Verb
disorganization
xxxx/x
Noun
dispersal
x/x
Noun
dispersion
x/x
Noun
disruption
x/x
Noun
district
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
downtown
//
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
electrification
xxxx/x
Noun
encroachment
x/x
Noun
exodus
/xx
Noun, Verb
expanding
x/x
Verb
extending
x/x
Verb
extension
x/x
Noun
fabric
/x
Noun, Verb
fair
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Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
foreign
/x
Adjective, Name
freeways
/x
Name
growth
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Noun
heaps
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Noun, Adverb
illiteracy
x/xxx
Noun
industrial
x/xx
Adjective, Name
intercity
/xxx
Noun, Adjective
latino
x/x
Name, Adjective
local
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
maori
/x
Name, Adjective
metro
/x
Noun, Adjective
metropolitan
xx/xx
Name, Adjective
modern
/x
Adjective, Noun
multiethnic
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
municipal
x/xx
Adjective, Name
municipalities
xxx/xx
Noun
old
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Adjective, Noun
peri
/x
Name
phasing
/x
Noun
physical
/xx
Adjective, Noun
plating
/x
Noun
pollutants
x/x
Noun
populated
/xxx
Adjective
pornography
x/xx
Noun
prosperity
x/xx
Noun
redevelopment
xx/xx
Noun
residential
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
rural
/x
Adjective, Noun
scanner
/x
Noun
scatter
/x
Noun, Verb
segregated
/xxx
Adjective
settled
/x
Adjective
shing
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Noun, Verb
skyscraper
/xx
Noun
spanning
/x
Noun
sparsity
/xx
Noun
spread
/
Verb, Noun
suburbanization
xxxx/x
Noun
super
/x
Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb
tangle
/x
Noun, Verb
tariff
/x
Noun, Verb
temperance
/xx
Noun
tissue
/x
Noun, Verb
tourist
/x
Noun, Verb
township
/x
Noun
urbana
x/x
Name
urbanisation
/xx/x
Noun
urbanism
/xx
Noun
urbanization
xxx/x
Noun
urbanized
/xx
Noun
zone
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Noun, Verb