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Industrialization vs Urbanization - What's the difference?

industrialization | urbanization |

As nouns the difference between industrialization and urbanization

is that industrialization is a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial state while urbanization is the process of the formation and growth of cities.

industrialization

English

(wikipedia industrialization)

Alternative forms

* industrialisation

Noun

(en noun)
  • a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial state

    • urbanization

    English

    Alternative forms

    * urbanisation

    Noun

    (wikipedia urbanization) (en noun)
  • the process of the formation and growth of cities
  • the change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas
  • the proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing