For example, a group led by New York University, which was an also-ran in the Roosevelt Island competition, plans to create an applied-sciences institute, called the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress, in Brooklyn.

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After a long career as a theoretical physicist, Geoffrey West began studying the science of urban life.

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There were inevitably comparisons with Activision's Call of Duty series, but Urban Warrior 5 was not a game, said Dr Nigel Paling, science advisor with the UK government's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.

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Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability, the Lab will address issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse.

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In the 1990s, ex-urban areas in the US grew twice as fast as their respective metropolitan areas overall, according to the Belgian Science Policy Office.

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Modernizing at least 35, 000 public schools across the country, supporting new science labs, Internet-ready classrooms and renovations at schools across the country, in rural and urban areas.

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