Noun

the study of cities, their geographic, economic, political, social and cultural environment

the culture or way of life of people who live in cities

urbanization

Noun

Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living.

*{{quote-book

, year=1998 , author=Nels Anderson & Raffaele Rauty , title=On hobos and homelessness , chapter=Urbanism as a way of life citation , isbn=0226019675, 9780226019673 , page=277 , passage=Ruralism conserves its isolation,... }}

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, year=2001 , author=Mathew Humphrey , title=Political theory and the environment: a reassessment , chapter=1 citation , isbn=0714681873, 9780714681870 , page=24 , passage=...'By "ruralism " I mean the glorification of country life, and a dissatisfaction with urbanism... }}

Rural living.

*{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Mrs. Humphry Ward, title=Marcella, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is--no stage ruralism , but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1975, author=, title=Civilization and Beyond, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At the end of the cycle Roman culture was turning its back upon ruralism and moving into a culture that was to be chiefly urban during an entire millennium. }}

The state or quality of being rustic.

* {{quote-news, year=1994, date=April 8, author=Peter Margasak, title=Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Favors, Billy Bang, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=The beautifully hypnotic patterns that have become an earmark, of the Ritual Trio are well suited to Bang's varied solo flights; on the album's affecting "Pedro," Bang's rough violin scrapes convey a backwoodsy ruralism , recalling the rootsy fiddle playing of southern prewar black string bands, while the title track with its propulsive near-swing finds him putting out a wild, Ornette-ish sound splash. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 8, author=David Hajdu, title=Tenor of the Times, work=New York Times citation

, passage=He had a robust earthiness that signified authenticity, especially to Americans of the postwar era who prized ruralism and took vernacular artists to be truer, more legitimate, than trained urban professionals. }}

(countable) A rural idiom or expression.