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Got it. That works. I was using Yoast Premium Redirect tools.

RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ yoursite.com/$1urban$2 [R=301,L]   the "yoursite.com/" wasn't necessary.

This did the trick. RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ /$1urban$2 [R=301,L]

Thanks!

I have more than a dozen... dozenS as in plural.  There are 80 pages with this and want to use a single command to capture all of them, not do them individually.

Is there a way to to that?

I just relaunched my website and changed a permalink structure for several pages where only a subdirectory name changed.

What 301 Redirect code do I use to redirect the following? I have dozens of these where I need to change just the directory name from "urban-living" to "urban", and want it to catch the following all in one redirect command.

Here is an example of the structure that needs to change.

Old 
domain.com/urban-living (single page w/ content)
domain.com/urban-living/tempe (single page w/ content)
domain.com/urban-living/tempe/the-vale (single page w/ content)

New 
domain.com/urban 
domain.com/urban/tempe 
domain.com/urban/tempe/the-vale

I'm not sure I follow your response clearly...

Another piece of info if relevant.  Each main category and sub category will have it's own page.

For example:

dwellarizona.com/luxury will be it's own page with applicable SEO focused on a large market segment, and have links to different cities of which Scottsdale is one. with links to:
dwellarizona.com/luxury/city-1
dwellarizona.com/luxury/city-2
dwellarizona.com/luxury/city-3

dwellarizona.com/luxury/scottsdale will be it's own page focused on the city of Scottsdale and luxury market, and have links to different neighborhoods of which grayhawk is one.

dwellarizona.com/luxury/scottsdale/neighborhood-1
dwellarizona.com/luxury/scottsdale/neighborhood-2
dwellarizona.com/luxury/scottsdale/neighborhood-3

dwellarizona.com/luxury/scottsdale/grayhawk is a neighborhood page.

I am in the process of a large rebuild and redesign of my real estate website. It is Wordpress based with custom post types organized by category archives for neighborhood pages. Through this process, I am expanding my content and number of internal pages by a large amount. I am at a decision point with permalink structure for my site and can choose two different directions to go, not sure which is best or if there is any impact on SEO for the two options. Most of it comes down to location of keyword search terms being placed in my permalink structures.

When I first built my site, exact domain match was still a thing for SEO power, and now days I hear it doesn’t hold much weight… so my domain name of http://dwellarizona.com still remains the same either way which does contain an important keyword, but might be redundant if using the keyword “Arizona” elsewhere in a permalink.

Is there any difference in SEO power for the following keywords whether they are placed all at the end of the permalink, versus being distributed more throughout the entire link address when there is a hierarchy to the address and some in the domain name, partly in a parent page address, and partly in the child page link address?

Target keywords: grayhawk, scottsdale, arizona
Option 1: http://dwellarizona.com/luxury/scottsdale/grayhawk vs
Option 2 (parent-child relationship): http://dwellarizona.com/luxury/grayhawk-scottsdale-arizona

Got it. That works. I was using Yoast Premium Redirect tools.

RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ yoursite.com/$1urban$2 [R=301,L]   the "yoursite.com/" wasn't necessary.

This did the trick. RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ /$1urban$2 [R=301,L]

Thanks!