anti-urban

adjective

an·​ti-ur·​ban ˌan-tē-ˈər-bən 

ˌan-tī-

variants or less commonly antiurban

: opposed to or hostile toward cities in general

anti-urban bias/sentiment

The violent hostility of Renamo toward such symbols of modernity as schools, hospitals, and machinery feeds the idea that the movement is traditionalist, or simply anti-urban.

—William Finnegan

Examples of anti-urban in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Unemployment was high, schools were underfunded, and the political climate in the state was intensely anti-urban. —Wendy S. Walters, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 July 2023

Trump’s ramblings, like the bizarre spectacle of anti-urban protests in densely populated areas of Oxford and London, are the cartoonish, meme-brain side of a decades-long and well-funded campaign to bring actual transit and housing policies to a dead stop. —Curbed, 9 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above