Sentence examples for amid urbanization from inspiring English sources

As Kristian Williams documents in Our Enemies in Blue, professionalized policing arose in the United States amid urbanization in the 1820s and 1830s.

For years, development including roads and fences has been squeezing many animals into what National Park Service fire ecologist Robin Wills calls "islands of habitat amid urbanization". Ecologists note that such islands are notorious as places where wildlife is highly susceptible to inbreeding, disease and extinction.

Hamilton's relative outperformance — and that of Western towns, in general — comes amid the urbanization of American economic growth.

It is a telling statement about the dilemma in which many people here find themselves, for the emergency listing of the obscure salamander in an area 60 miles north of the affluent city of Santa Barbara comes amid pressure from creeping urbanization and deep changes in the agricultural economy.

In a sign of how concerned the new administration is about China's environmental crisis and the constraints it places on the country's future development, President Xi Jinping told senior officials at a study session last Friday that the government should "set and strictly observe an ecological 'red line' amid the country's rapid urbanization in order to protect the environment".

Solving the "last mile" problem is a transportation dilemma that even cities with vast public transit networks are grappling with amid shifting demographics and increased urbanization.

Some of the issues discussed in the debate were "municipal and higher education, health, urbanization, municipal corruption," amid other topics.

Celebrity culture is an essentially modern phenomenon that emerged amid such twentieth-century trends as urbanization and the rapid development of consumer culture (Dictionary of American History, 2003).

The company has grown amid increased spending on infrastructure that is tied to urbanization in China.

Amid the turmoil, the government is debating new policies to promote urbanization.

Context extends to "global urbanization".