Still, Mr Ciafardini reckons that the 12m inhabitants of the capital and the urban area around it suffered 3.5m robberies or violent crimes in 1998.
In 2008, seven educational institutions in the urban area of Soacha, Cundinamarca, were running this programme and a total of 6, 900 people took part in the programme including children, young people and adults.
Meanwhile, another fire broke out on the other side of the urban area Friday, but that event was described as a vegetation fire, occurring in the suburb of Glendale, the Los Angeles Fire Department said on its Twitter account.
Situated about 12 km west of central Hong Kong, the park will be linked to the airport and the urban area by a spur from the existing high-speed rail line to the airport, and by highway and by ferry.
But in the United States, and much of the rest of the high-income world, this is accomplished by bringing residents from the periphery to the core by car, train, bus and increasingly through telecommunications, even as most jobs are located elsewhere in the urban area.
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I-69, the proposed Montreal-Mexico City freeway, through the Valley, a case strengthened by the fact that the region remains the largest urban area in the United States without an interstate highway.
Central planners made the city big it covers an area almost three times the size of Belgium so that migrants could, within its boundaries, move from rural areas, to satellite cities, to suburbs of the core urban area, and to the metropolis itself without ever crossing municipal boundaries.
Mr Van Ee laments that the town he arrived in some 20 years ago is now the fastest growing urban area in the country.
Disney, which also owns a local baseball team, the California Angels, based at Anaheim, in the same urban area, is launching a new sports channel, challenging Mr Murdoch's Fox Sports channel to serve up more exciting fare.
They Park Hyatt has this unique private park that is easily accessible and features outdoor dining patios from two of its restaurants and one of its bars, all bordering a grassy expanse, creating a true oasis in the vibrant urban area.
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Indianapolis, the capital and home to Eli Lilly, was the second-fastest growing big urban area in the mid-west in the 1990s.
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As might be expected, diners leave larger tips when the restaurant is elegant or in an urban area, when the food quality is high, and when the weather is pleasant.
As the police budget is set to be cut further under the government's austerity measures, balancing the urban and rural needs for the force area will add to the challenges for the new PCC.
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The state legislature has shied away from enforcing guidelines for urban development in the Phoenix area.
As Meeusen tells it, haphazard development around the park left Disneyland isolated in the middle of an urban area.
Whitehall responded positively to an expensive chunk of research, the Manchester Independent Economic Review, which presents the case for exploiting potential in the area's closely knit urban sprawl as a way of boosting the entire British economy.
The president's rally is at Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown Richmond, offering him the chance to appeal to his urban base while also tapping into the area's suburbs.
The 120 million square foot urban area will be built around a 2.4-mile long lake, and house up to 180, 000 inhabitants once complete.
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The fastest road near an urban area is California Route 73, a six-lane freeway in Orange County that connects Santa Ana and San Juan Capistrano through the San Joaquin Hills.
The 12 May walk Metamorphosis of Mazagaon, organised by Kavita Gonsalves for the non-profit Urban Design Collective, took walkers around the evolving Mazagaon area of south Mumbai, where colonial Bombay grapples with contemporary Mumbai in its pre-Portuguese-era homes, Goan community clubs and glassy skyscrapers.
Manila apparently has plans to build highways linking the area to other growing urban centers.
Herman also coordinates with regional partners to integrate plans and share resources through the Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Team and Urban Area Working Group.
The Madrid bombings reveal just how vulnerable the transportation system of a major urban area can be, and whoever carried out this attack in London certainly learned that lesson well.
However, the report did warn that Tyneside could still fall into the trap of 'buzz to bland' if the creativity and character of the area is lost in the commercial development rush of urban regeneration.
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West Midlands Police has said 45 urban street gangs operate in the area and is setting up a task force to tackle them.
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There is even a word for the very biggest, the megacity, sometimes defined as an urban area with a population of more than ten million.
He said that the study also focused on seven species that did inhabit the area to see if their abundance was affected as the urban noise increased.
Questionable urban-renewal schemes had left the area oddly disconnected from its surroundings.
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The TDI engine charges the battery while driving in order to store enough electrical energy for EV operation later in the journey-for instance, in an urban area.
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The premise is the same in the comic book as the film: In the future, Mega-City One has urban-sprawled its way across the East Coast of America, covering the area from Boston to Washington DC.
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