Her paintings remind us that Modernism is an urban phenomenon.

The impact of immigration is wholly an urban phenomenon.

For now, though, the ripple is largely an urban phenomenon, and seen mostly in the country's more developed regions.

Early in this century, capital punishment in the state was a predominantly urban phenomenon.

The Industrial Revolution was by no means merely an urban phenomenon.

This sort of high-tech living, experts say, is still largely an urban, white-collar phenomenon.

The leisure industry was an urban phenomenon at a time when most of the population did not live in towns.

New York opera is experiencing a familiar urban phenomenon: a disappearing middle class.

To be sure, home shopping in China is still mostly an urban phenomenon, touching only a slice of the potential market.

Wretched excess is not, of course, an exclusively urban phenomenon.