Islam, an architect, is the head of the Urban Study Group, a small band of architects founded in 2004 that are campaigning to save the cultural heritage of Puran Dhaka, the most historic area in the city.
Two years later, while doing an urban migration study there, a reporter announced over a loudspeaker that he'd pay cash to anyone with information for a story about the Rockefeller in their midst.
In addition to the above statistics, The Urban Institute study highlights the fact that of the 961, 000 young adults between the age of 21 and 27 who currently buy their own health insurance as an individual and make too much money to qualify for premium subsidies or Medicaid, a full two-thirds are 26 years old or younger and are in families receiving employer coverage.
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Perez was born to Cuban parents in Argentina and came to the U.S. to study urban planning at University of Michigan.
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After being laid off in 2001, Kim travelled the world before enrolling at the University of California, Berkley to study urban planning, where he again dropped out.
Housing stock is crumbling, and the center city is a study in urban decay: empty lots, boarded-up businesses, foreclosure signs.
When the levees broke and flood waters sent half the town fleeing, the Crescent City was a study in urban dysfunction.
Planners and others who wring their hands over urban sprawl find hope in a study that found 24 U.S. cities expected their downtown populations to grow by as much as 400 percent by the year 2010.
According to a study by policy group the Urban Institute, felonies increased 18.3% in New York subways in 2005--but minus iPod thefts, the amount of subway crime would have actually decreased by 3% for the year.
Others worry that urban research could, just like other fields of study, start to put number-crunching ahead of other important questions.
According to a study by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, sub-prime loans are five times as common in black neighbourhoods as in white ones.
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Our study looked at what would happen if urban and suburban households in just four countries -- the United States, United Kingdom, Spain and Brazil -- decided to swap beef for lentils just once a week.
The only urban legend here appears to be the conclusions of the study itself, which was widely touted in the print and electronic media as proving the superiority of the U.S. FDA to its European counterpart in approving cancer drugs.
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While the results of the study may seem obvious, they do provide support for urban planners who have long argued that denser communities are healthier because they foster social interaction, because they are--despite appearances--more environmentally friendly, and because they encourage more day-to-day physical activity.
The study echoes others which have linked health to the countryside and urban parks.
The study also cited other factors as contributing to the plight of the urban poor such as improper sanitation, contaminated drinking water, and urban pollution.
Another recent study in Massachusetts for the National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that urban charter schools are shown to be effective for minorities, poor students and low achievers.
One study has suggested that the tax system alone reduces the population density in urban areas by 15%.
This is because urban regions amount to less than 1% of total land area, according to the study.
The participants for this study were ninety-seven evening part-time MBA students from a large Midwestern urban university.
They are essential for the study of medieval attitudes towards piety, and the spiritual needs and wellbeing of an urban population in the middle ages.
After analysing different sub-groups of bus pass holders, the study found that women over the age of 70 and living in London or in urban areas were significantly more likely to use buses and walk three or more times a week than those without bus passes.
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The study, which was broken down by The Atlantic, also looked at the results for 373 urban areas to rank the happiest and least-happy cities.
According to a study conducted by Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University, electrical use per household in urban areas of Humboldt County has shot up 50 percent since 1996, while in Arcata and more rural areas, household electricity use has jumped 60 percent.
Parks, gardens and green space in urban areas can improve the wellbeing and quality of life of people living there, says a University of Exeter study.
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An ongoing UK study, The Warwick Microwind Trial Project appears to cast further doubt over the usefulness of turbines in urban environments.
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