As a landlocked country without many urban areas, nature-themed tourism is the main part of the industry by default.

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The board is staffed by professional urban planners, representatives of the nature reserves authority and other statutory bodies who convene to determine whether building schemes comport with law and building regulations or not.

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With such diverse sound effects and samples as frogs croaking, children playing, side walk preachers preaching, and a New York subway door closing, The Education of the Individual Soul is tied to both nature and to everyday urban life, giving it the qualities of a sort of ethereal and mystical modern-day fairytale.

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These love to pretend that they live in one of the world's toughest urban jungles, beset by warring gangs and malevolent Nature, when, in reality, the biggest danger they face is that the person behind the counter at Starbucks might mis-hear their order for a double tall, decaf, non-fat latte with a vanilla shot and make their coffee with full-fat milk by mistake.

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The alliance of these two important figures, from rural-ex-Marxist and urban-tribal backgrounds, will help galvanise the broad-based nature of the Southern Movement.

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This may be an accurate description of what is going on with much of the Olympic site: turning an inner urban wasteland, much of which was returning to a state of nature, into a big park.

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For anyone numbed by the impersonal nature of modern Chinese apartment blocks or the frenzied pace of urban China, the earth buildings are enchanting reminders of communal village life and the ancient rhythms of the agrarian southeast.

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Students bring in money, and the bohemian nature of the city also attracts artists and architects who have helped transform the urban decay into something beautiful.

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The unpredictable nature of cross-channel travel with first impressions gained and prejudices confirmed has a rich urban mythology.

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But there are some who now question whether urban Britain's US-style gangsters require US-style cops with pistols and a ruthless nature.

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