citify

verb3

1. •
   To make more like or more in the character of a city.

   • Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers. — 1975
2. •
   (informal) To become more like or more in the character of a city.

   • The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying" and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing." — 1946
3. •
   (informal) To make more like a city person.

   • We may be clothed, citified, and civilized, but we carry deep within us the genetic patterns of behavior that served our ancestor, the "killer ape." — 1992