different between urbanism vs ruralism

English

Etymology

urban +? -ism

Noun

urbanism (countable and uncountable, plural urbanisms)

1. The study of cities, their geographic, economic, political, social, and cultural environment.

   Coordinate terms: urban studies, urbanology

2. The culture or way of life of people who live in cities.
3. Urbanization.
4. Urban planning.
   • 2008, Diego Ramirez-Lovering, Opportunistic Urbanism, RMIT Publishing (?ISBN), page 125:

     Simultaneously there has been a growing disenchantment with the conventional face of urban design as it is practiced in the West, alongside demands for a new and emerging urbanism that is responsive to the everyday life of the city: […]

Related terms

• urbanist

Translations

Further reading

• urbanism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bruinsma, Namburis, Umbrians

Romanian

Etymology

From French urbanisme.

Noun

urbanism n (uncountable)

1. urbanism, urban planning

Declension

English

Etymology

rural +? -ism

Noun

ruralism (countable and uncountable, plural ruralisms)

1. Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living.
2. Rural living.
3. The state or quality of being rustic.
4. (countable) A rural idiom or expression.

Synonyms

• (advocacy of rural living): agrarianism
• (state or quality of being rural or rustic): rusticity, backwoodsiness; rurality, ruralness, rusticism

Related terms

• ruralist

See also

• ruralism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia