"Manhattanize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Manhattan + -ize.",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1985 August 4, Robert Lindsey, “The Struggle to Keep Skylines in Line”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "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.\"",
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        "To construct many tall or densely situated buildings in (a city)."
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        "(transitive) To construct many tall or densely situated buildings in (a city)."
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        "(transitive) To construct many tall or densely situated buildings in (a city)."
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