But for others, these new developments have the potential to reshape Africa's urban future.
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SUNY, she's offered, would provide the backbone staff to start efforts in the state's urban centers.
Atlanta's urban sprawl has doubled the land used for housing and commercial development since 1973.
Lord Rogers, a celebrated architect, was put in charge of the government's urban task-force.
Zoning in China's urban areas was traditionally weak and even today housing blocks stand next to factories.
As Mr West's urban maths suggests, London's contribution to the country's economy has grown faster than its population.
Private-home prices rose 2.8% in 2012, according to data from Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority, compared with 5.9% in 2011.
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The favelas, or slums, of Brazil's urban centers are breeding grounds of violence.
The continent's urban population is also projected to exceed that of China and India by 2050, according to U.N. figures.
It stopped America's urban renewal movement in its tracks, to the utter fury of Moses, Felt, Mumford and the rest.
The line came to encapsulate the borough's urban blight of the time.
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Tim Knowles, of the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute, worries about too little, leaving mediocre schools with not enough incentive to improve.
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Two years ago India's urban-development ministry published a report calling for states to upgrade building codes and promote the strengthening of existing buildings.
He lost the last election, in 2008, by just 35, 000 votes which sparked rioting by some opposition supporters in the party's urban strongholds.
In particular, it has mobilised support among the poor working class in Ireland's urban areas, who might otherwise back the prime minister's party, Fianna Fail.
Mr. Ravitch, then chairman of New York State's Urban Development Corp.
The site is part public park, part wildlife sanctuary, part space for installation art -- just one more piece of reclaimed land enriching Berlin's urban life.
Once Amman's urban sprawl falls away, replaced by rolling arid fields and olive groves, it is only a short drive to Madaba where the King's Highway begins.
Patricia Campbell Hearst, a 20-year-old heiress to the Hearst newspaper empire, had been kidnapped by the SLA's urban guerrillas (to give them a polite description) two months earlier.
Rustic politics provide much amusement for South Africa's urban sophisticates.
The three C's seem to define today's urban Chinese youth.
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Britain's urban revival has developed largely independently of local government.
The iconic design of NYC Loop and the relationship of its public space units to the city's neighborhoods will become an integral part of New York City's urban identity.
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Now, spurred by the tourist potential, and by the interest of Brazil's urban middle class, dozens of towns and cities are doing up old buildings or even entire neighbourhoods.
The department's Urban Search and Rescue unit who extricated the woman train for situations such as building collapses and none of the tactics used Wednesday were improvised, Simmons said.
That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between blacks and whites, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persist in so many of today's urban and rural communities.
Mr Santos's case is particularly troubling because he had come to symbolise a new civic mood of resistance, in which Colombia's urban middle classes had stirred from their resigned apathy.
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Long before the uprisings on the streets of Ferguson or Baltimore, the 1992 L.A. riots in the wake of the first verdict in the Rodney King case had an undeniable effect on the city's urban youth.
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