Dense urban development patterns increase the number of people with whom we can have face-to-face interactions at low cost.
City dwellers tend to walk more and drive less than their suburban counterparts, and dense urban development encourages transit use.
Small, shared vehicles are easy to park and maneuver in dense urban centers, and cut down on traffic and fuel consumption.
To address the crush, carriers are offloading data traffic from dense urban areas onto Wi-Fi networks, while also seeking out more spectrum.
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Carriers are looking to deploy picocells in dense urban hot spot areas to provide high-speed mobile data service where it is most needed.
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This is a fundamental change in the business equation, enabling much more robust investment in this layer of wireless infrastructure throughout dense urban environments.
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In terms of culture, finance, media and certain other transaction-based industries, a number of dense urban cores remain unassailable in their efficiency and appeal.
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Construction will be particularly hard hit, since Brown also aims to force Californians, four-fifths of whom prefer single-family houses, into dense urban apartment districts.
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Once considered the natural domain of megacities and dense urban cores, high-wage business service jobs, largely due to technology, can increasingly be done anywhere.
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The popularity of the City's scheme suggests that the advantages of traffic restriction in dense urban areas may have been underestimated in the past.
At the same time, average rent rates have increased more than 5% annually (much more in dense urban areas) adding to the home ownership push.
The knock is that higher frequencies have trouble penetrating buildings but with enough repeaters that problem dissipates, especially in dense urban markets where demand is the greatest.
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In phase three, the helicopter crew radioed a commander to say that at least six armed men had entered a partially constructed building in a dense urban area.
The dense urban neighborhood sits in the Cambridge-Somerville line.
In fact, we believe these new P2P services could be more complementary and encourage more people to consider car sharing programs over car ownership in dense urban population, which in the end could help Zipcar.
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Chicago came in second, due largely to its dense urban population, crippling traffic and the fact that motorists in the Windy City are subjected to fuel costs that are 30 percent higher than the U.S. average.
It integrates a multi-GNSS location engine supporting GPS, Galileo, Glonass and Compass satellites to improve the navigation system performance in obstructed environments, Combined with SiRFDRive(R) dead reckoning software, the SiRFprimaII delivers seamless navigation experience whether driving in dense urban canyons or through tunnels or multistory parking lots.
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While particulate matter emitted by vehicles make up a small part of overall particulate matter in China, in dense urban areas, it is almost certainly the highest contributor to human exposure of PM2.5, according to Vance Wagner, a senior researcher at the International Council on Clean Transportation.
Should significant parts of the electrical power infrastructure be lost for any substantial period of time, the Commission believes that the consequences are likely to be catastrophic, and many people may ultimately die for lack of the basic elements necessary to sustain life in dense urban and suburban communities.
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Zappos could get a dense, urban option by moving to a place like San Francisco.
It was pointed out that in Japan, the system is more urban and dense, where 2.5 really shines.
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Water-resistant (50m) and lighter than any other Garmin running watch, the Forerunner 10 is armed with a high-sensitivity GPS receiver which can quickly acquire and sustain satellite reception, perfect for wooded trails under dense trees or in the urban canyons of skyscrapers.
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Urban boosters point to dense, expensive cities like New York, Boston and San Francisco.
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