The phrase "a town characterized" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing specific features or attributes that define a town.
Example: "The town characterized by its historic architecture attracts many tourists each year."
Alternatives: "a town defined by" or "a town marked by".
The setting is a small town characterized only by some false-front sets on a rented back-lot street.
Snowmass Village, which shares a name with the ski resort about five miles away, was developed as a resort town, characterized by its ski-in/ski-out houses, condominiums and hotels.
The Scene Driving along Station Road on the way to Bellport, you pass through North Bellport, a relatively depressed town characterized by small, run-down homes and the occasional corner market.
We purposely selected this resource limited area of the town, characterized by informal settlements, congested living, lack of proper sanitation conditions and low education level among adults.
More than 25.0% of the population currently live in irregular peri-urban settlements of the town characterized by poorly constructed houses, poor sanitary conditions and lack of all services.
As the journalist John Dickerson of Slate put it, what was a French existential novel -- about a remorseless killer of Arabs, no less -- doing in a town long characterized as "the kind of sensible place where anyone caught reading heady foreign literature-philosophy would be driven to the county line"?
When embarking on a career in a town dominantly characterized by flash, fame, and fortune, it's tempting for any dreamer to be driven by a lust for luxury and decadence.
Compare that to Glastonbury, a town Mr. Gibbons characterized as a model of planning and zoning.
When contacted by VICE News Wednesday, a spokesperson for Grande-Synthe town hall characterized the shooting as an incident "between smugglers" and declined further comment on the situation.
In a similar synthesis of Roman and French Baroque seasoned with Palladian elements, he also created a new type of town palace characterized by impressive form, structural clarity, and the dynamic tension of its decoration.
