He urged that we develop opportunities for training prospective operators in the urban core.
Several of them now refuse to deliver papers to readers far from the urban core.
None of this suggests, however, that the American urban core is in a state of permanent decline.
The big difference is that while the corporations of the fifties sparked the growth of suburbia, Hsieh is targeting the urban core.
This is not to say that Austin itself--that is, its urban core area--does not try to trot out its blue, and "green, " trimmings.
Atlanta was losing population in the 1970s and 1980s Gravel says, but now the urban core is growing faster than most of the suburban counties.
Today, our cities are faced with overdevelopment that has simultaneously damaged our environment, isolated low-income communities in the urban core, and maintained an unsustainable economic model.
Its main city, Portland, became the poster child of the "smart growth" movement by forcing up density, building an extensive light-rail system and restoring its urban core.
Sure, being cool is nice, but the obsession with hipness often means missing a bigger story: the gradual diminution of the urban core as engines for job creation.
Smart cities are seeing value in energizing their urban core.
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Over the past decade the urban core of Jackson County has lost 42, 000 jobs, while the surrounding suburbs have grown by 20, 000, with the biggest growth in largely exurban Platte County.
This imperfect, if not inverse, relationship between density and wealth is widely ignored by most urban core boosters, many of whom argue that packing people together is the true key to economic growth.
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Among all of the Census Bureau's 366 metropolitan statistical areas collections of cities or counties that are economically tied to an urban core with at least 50, 000 people personal income declined in 223 areas in 2009.
The result: 81 percent of the most critical measures related to student achievement in the urban core of the region are moving in the right direction, from kindergarten readiness to completing some form of college.
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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).
But once one gets behind the relatively small urban core, the overall density is barely 2, 200 per square mile, less than half San Jose or Los Angeles, hardly a fifth that of Tokyo and not much more than Atlanta, the least dense major city in the world with more than 2.5 million residents.
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For the most part, despite the media hype about families returning to the city, the biggest declines in the under 15 population tend to be in the core urban areas.
Popchips is on the wrong side of this dynamic because its core fans are urban, health conscious and progressive.
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Urban Media and its rivals typically pay the cost of installing the broadband wiring, but Urban Media ups the ante by offering core broadband service entirely free of charge.
With the company's core rural consumers saturated with stores, union-pandering urban politicians making it tough to impossible to open big city locations, and overseas missteps in key markets like Germany and South Korea, there's reason to believe Wal-Mart's growth phase is near its end.
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