The phrase "a sort of urban" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has characteristics or qualities associated with urban environments, often in a vague or non-specific way.
Example: "The festival had a sort of urban vibe, with street art and food trucks lining the streets."
Alternatives: "a kind of urban" or "a type of urban".
It's a sort of urban pastoral.
Blé Goudé has become a sort of urban warlord.
These customers would treat Crushpad as a sort of urban wine community center.
The lush renderings convey the island's potential as a sort of urban wilderness.
Mrs Reynolds is a sort of urban fairytale; a play of glorious and unexpected optimism.
This particular opossum served as a sort of urban Rorschach test.
The "smart city" they envision is a hybrid of the digital and the physical, a "triumph of atoms and bits" that yields a sort of augmented urban reality.
Driving back and forth, nearly 40 times in all, I came to believe that the proliferation of Starbucks, a sort of nationalized urban culture, was the bellwether of a more general social change in which Manhattan and Middle America are cross-pollinating.
Mr. Mullan, a vice president of Friends of the High Line, was standing on the elevated line near a section of the park that was once a sort of fertile urban valley above the street, where wild trees and plants thrived in the trapped moisture and heat in a canyonlike stretch of track between two buildings.
More than worthy of note in this area, too, are a pair of lively African-themed abstract drawings by the Afro-Chinese-Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, and Lois Mailou Jones's Art Decoesque "Ascent of Ethiopia" (1932), an idyll of figures struggling upward to a sort of moonstruck urban Nirvana, benignly attended by the stylized profile of an Egyptified African goddess.
Elsewhere, mixed-use "lifestyle centers," a sort of outdoor urban village that mixes retail, theater and condos, are lining the map more and more.
