" The result, he says, is "urban environments without human scale and devoid of intimate spaces.
Poor pupils, those in urban environments and English-language learners fare better in charters (see article).
As in many urban environments, there is strife between the different classes of commuters in this city.
The other trucks would be steered by sophisticated electronics that work both in all-terrain and urban environments.
The GRC was also a partner in the EC project RESCUE (Regeneration of European sites in Cities and Urban Environments).
Anyway, the point is, big stores (like Wal-Mart) are already the suppliers of choice for affluent urban environments.
Teachers are losing patience that education is mostly aimed at mainstream urban environments and academic skills are emphasized.
Yet, in some respects this effort is a necessary but not sufficient condition for creating thriving urban environments.
This is especially true in urban environments if you look at the Philippines, or Indonesia or Turkey, and other emerging countries.
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Urban environments also tend to promote more behavior tailored to sitting, especially while commuting, or at work or during our leisure time.
An ongoing UK study, The Warwick Microwind Trial Project appears to cast further doubt over the usefulness of turbines in urban environments.
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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The sensors for air quality, though, do seem to be aimed at more urban environments like Los Angeles or New York City or Mexico City.
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The GD300 uses a quadra-helix antenna for real-time global positioning that defies interference even when the user is positioned in mountainous regions or urban environments.
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Today, any renaissance in small bookstores (or bakeries) is more likely to take place in more urban environments, where what are now niche retailers can thrive.
C. to Boston, bike sharing has become an increasingly popular way for people to travel around urban environments while decreasing vehicular congestion and doing something positive for the environment.
Urban environments flourished as the Modernist movement took shape.
"It is true that doing wind in urban environments is a lot trickier than in rural environments, " said Johanna Partin, San Francisco's Renewable Energy Program manager, who also coordinates the task force.
Consumers in urban environments agonize, indeed, over which cars to buy to fit their lifestyles, but BMW is upping the ante: the German automaker is designing a whole way of life around a car.
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It provides tours of the facility for interested members of the public and conduct lectures, outreach programs and demonstrations for the local community to show them how to grow food in various urban environments.
"It's the ability to interactively move through very high-definition, very large urban environments on the computer and in an interactive fashion, " said Bill Jepson, an architectural computing professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Mathieu Lehanneur's Local River -- an aquarium that also grows herbs -- and Jochem Faudet's "Grow Your Own" -- a compact greenhouse -- both offer solutions to cultivating home-grown food in cramped urban environments.
Other smart touches include the circumaural ear cups that insulate the listener from noisy urban environments, and an optional cable with a smart remote and microphone for taking and receiving calls and controlling the music on Apple devices.
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Netatmo allows users to contribute to its Urban Weather Program, creating a wider network for weather data monitoring and pooling to help meteorologists, environmental activists, scientists and people living in urban environments gain a better understanding of the city climate landscape.
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"A researcher I was speaking to recently reckons green walls in urban canyon environments (areas where walls are higher than the width of the road separating them) are more effective than trees at collecting particles because the way the wind eddies around and then moves down the wall, " Laurence said.
Likewise, the urban and economic environments in which startups compete for resources (money, expertise, information, connections) are similarly varied.
More than 20 field projects followed, on such themes as energy flows and recycling in Lae (Papua New Guinea), urban flora and fauna in Berlin (Germany) and in Xalapa (Mexico), children in the city of Toronto (Canada), urban green spaces in Dayton (USA), Seoul (Rep. Korea) and Valencia (Spain) and linkages between the urban and rural environments in Bangkok (Thailand) and Rome (Italy).
"There is a lot of work on the beneficial effects of visiting natural environments, but our findings suggest it is time to move beyond a simple urban versus rural debate and start looking at the effect that different natural environments have on people's health and well-being, " said Dr White.
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Bats prefer to roost in natural features like trees and caves, but as development has made those environments scarcer, some species have adapted to urban areas.
Unreal was used to bring a diverse range of environments to life, including desert, ice, urban, and jungle levels.
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