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.
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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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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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.
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.
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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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.
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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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.
We may think, for example, of Boston, which ranks fifth in the world in per capita GDP, as a tightly packed urban area.
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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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Built in 1930, it was the city's only pre-World War II theatre in an urban area and enjoyed an active heyday of screenings, performances and events.
For example, in Mexico members of the community will tell the food bank who is in need and the food bank will periodically drive a big truck out to an urban area and deliver food packages that each provide a nutritious meal for a whole family.
Mr Mahama is expected to do well in his home area in the north, while Mr Akufo-Addo draws much of his support from urban areas and the eastern Ashanti region.
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.
He added that while the area studied in the current research included both urban and rural regions, the health concerns of Athens residents could be at least as great.
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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.
The most obvious growth area for natural gas in transportation is for urban fleets (taxis, buses and other service vehicles) that have access to a central refueling facility.
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It is clear from both our and Ofcom's research that viewers in Border want news about their local area rather than news dominated by the urban agendas of either central belt Scotland or the north east of England.
Girlfriends on the Go (GOG) have a median age 34, live in an urban area, with less than 50% having children.
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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.
It is located at Mt Druitt a area of western Sydney, with the most concentrated urban Aboriginal population in the country, who come from different tribal areas and backgrounds.
Inhabitants will zip from one urban center to another in an hour or less, a real feat because the area is separated by the wide mouth of the muddy Pearl River.
When we think of cybersecurity threats, most often we imagine a smelly and unshaven super-genius, holed up in a ramshackle studio apartment in a dodgy urban area, working through a high-speed Internet connection to penetrate the defenses of surrounding servers.
The area is getting a general face-lift, though in the absence of any urban planning, sections of old, gritty neighborhoods remain.
However Baker says given that urban areas have increased in size since the last estimate, it is probably fair to say the total area occupied by foxes has also changed.
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