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- adjective Describing a society before
urbanization
Etymologies
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pre- + urban
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Examples
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Yet in the 1930s, Wirth (1938) looked to preurban America and worried about the loss of social connectivity in transitory urban life. "
Bella DePaulo: Americans Have More Friends, and Not Just on Facebook 2010
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