That's not a small task for a site that is the urban equivalent of a six-car pileup.

"So we hooked them up with some deejays - the urban equivalent of cool."

It was the urban equivalent of living off the land.

They are supposed to be the urban equivalent of country carnivals, with games, food and fun for all.

Putting highways through the middle of cities was the urban equivalent of strip-mining.

Its survival is the urban equivalent of a fierce desire in the family not to throw out a favorite old chair.

Black families live in the urban equivalent of sharecroppers' shacks and their children go to segregated schools.

"These are the urban equivalent to suburban strip shopping centers," he said.

In a very conscious way, Biohazard was the white urban equivalent of hip-hop.

A cityscape is the urban equivalent of a landscape.