One of the most striking developments of the last century has been the growth of cities.
West has observed a similar pattern in the growth of cities, even disorderly, chaotic ones like Sao Paolo.
Scientists around the globe exploit the information in myriad ways - from monitoring the health of crops and the status of volcanoes, to measuring the growth of cities and the extent of glaciers.
Both it and the Times version also offer in their introductions some handy potted wisdom on the structure of the globe, the growth of cities, and other matters likely to pop into map-readers' minds.
The growth of Southern cities also changes the political calculus because cities usually are less conservative than rural areas.
He was in many ways typical of the Progressives, middle- and upper-class people who were alarmed at what the growth of metropolitan cities and huge corporations were doing to a rustic, egalitarian America.
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The range of material is impressive: the chapters deal with the growth of European cities before the industrial revolution, corruption in post-Soviet Russia, privatisation in Eastern Europe, local government in the United States, and more.
My children have certainly learned far more in school about Hitler, Stalin and Henry VIII than about how our society was shaped by the agricultural depression or the phenomenal growth of English cities in the 19th Century.
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And then it has its huge advantage that it's located between these mega growth cities of Atlanta and Charlotte.
Green belts are a way to control the growth of towns and cities by protecting the countryside that encircles them.
Charitable organizations have also offered that, in addition to services, they provide jobs and opportunities for economic growth inside of our cities, towns and states.
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We've seen an explosion in what I call the athletic industrial complex with the growth of 24-hour sports networks, with the growth of 24-hour radio channels, and particularly with the growth of the spread of publicly funded stadiums in cities around the country.
The dramatic growth of Texas's cities over the past decade, they add, has not exactly helped.
But the United Nations Environmental Program me (UNEP) has also recently said that population growth in the cities of the developing world "has outpaced the ability to provide vital infrastructure and services".
The rural population is growing it has risen by 17% since 1971 compared with population growth of 4% in England as a whole but much of the growth has come from people moving out of cities and from the spread of retirement homes.
Not one of the top 10 growth cities for 2010 to the present, or last year, had urban core densities more than a half of those of places like Boston (40th for 2000 to the present), New York (41st), Los Angeles (42nd) or Chicago (43rd).
On the sensitive issue of income distribution, the researchers say the rate of wealth growth for the rural population will outstrip that of the cities this year, but the gap between rich and poor is still widening.
Outside of the cities, farm-related growth jumped 13% as production of goods such as beef and wheat started getting back to normal.
The Washington, DC-based nonprofit Population Reference Bureau projects that, by 2050, 70 percent of the world will inhabit cities, with most of this growth occurring in underdeveloped countries whose limited resources may exacerbate an already difficult situation.
Second, Fogel is right to note that migration of labor to cities has been the engine of Chinese growth, but that process has stalled in the global economic downturn.
The growth rate of sales price in seven cities rose by no more than 1% month over month.
The Queen told MPs and peer the HS2 project would provide "further opportunities for economic growth in many of Britain's cities".
After years of growth in the major coastal cities, such as Shanghai and Beijing, interest has grown in the booming and vast interior of the country.
Marseille, tourist epicenter during next year and the second most populated city in France, it's the ideal place to continue the growth trajectory of development of WiFi smart cities in France and in the World of GOWEX.
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So, between 2000 and 2011, the number of poor in suburbs grew by 64 percent and that's more than twice the rate of growth that we saw in cities, faster than rural areas or other communities across the country.
Almost all of that growth will come in the already-crowded and overburdened cities and slums of the developing world.
It isn't clear that any single factor is behind the persistence and growth of pickpocketing and purse snatching in many cities.
Economic stability in any market depends on growth, something cities are acutely aware of when it comes to augmenting their population.
This is partly a result of hyper-growth of demand for space in these global cities by high bidders: corporate firms, luxury hotels, restaurants and shops, luxury residences, and high-end cultural sectors.
Even relatively water-rich countries of the region, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Bhutan and Papua New Guinea, now face water supply and quality constraints in their major cities because of population growth, growing water consumption, environmental degredation, damaging agricultural activities, poor management of water catchment areas, industrialization, and groundwater overuse.
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