Manhattanize

present singular third person Manhattanizes · participle present Manhattanizing · participle past Manhattanized · past Manhattanized

1. transitiveTo construct many tall or densely situated buildings in (a city).

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   San Francisco's Board of Supervisors last month approved a new zoning law designed to limit the height and size of office towers and to reduce by half the projected employment growth downtown over the next 15 years. ¶ Adoption of the plan came after more than a decade of complaints from San Franciscans that their city was being "Manhattanized."

   1985 August 4, Robert Lindsey, “The Struggle to Keep Skylines in Line”, in New York Times