Cities are urbanized areas, farms are rural areas, so basically urbanized areas are areas with a concentrated amount of people and buildings and factories and technology and all that
conservation, international agreements, managed use,
public awareness
Wind erosion is the main cause. And since it is the desert that wind can pick up tiny sand rock particles that slowly grind against the rock. Over time the erosion will give a jagged rock the smooth features as if it had been submerged in a river for the roughly same period of time.
B. Kuwait faced environmental damage during the Persian Gulf War.