The city has launched a regulated bus rapid-transit system and has begun work to develop a reliable and affordable urban rail system as part of efforts to sort out its legendary snail-paced traffic.
Newark, a struggling urban school system splintered along political lines, has drawn national attention as it attempts to reverse course.
The government and bidding cities would have to raise money to fund new urban transport system, airports, housing projects, hotels, and training and competitive facilities.
Such an organization is significant, especially in the tough urban public school system of Philadelphia -- Asian boys often discount themselves from their high school tryouts and Asian girls sideline themselves as spectators.
It was pointed out that in Japan, the system is more urban and dense, where 2.5 really shines.
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But 150 years of urban growth have left the system unable to cope.
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Rural India's purchases of chyawanprash, an ayurvedic paste that eases digestion and bolsters the immune system, outpaced urban India's by over six percentage points in the second quarter.
If a health worker is "busy and doing a couple different things, it's easy to click on the wrong one, " said Alison Connelly-Flores, the clinical system administrator at Urban Health Plan.
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In our case, the support of the mayor has been critical, and as one of the only large urban districts to adopt this change in governance of our schools, I believe that the District of Columbia public school system will be a model for urban school reform.
Most people think that the current water system can cope with urban growth far into the future.
Urban citizens benefit from the hukou system, but those who migrate between cities are also irked by it.
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.
Sales of turntables in all price points are climbing and anyone can get a simple system at Best Buy or Urban Outfitters.
Given the parlous state of urban China's social-security system, peasants would continue to regard land as a vital safety net, to be relinquished only in extreme circumstances.
Urban Green Energy and GE plan to sell the system to commercial and government customers.
One study has suggested that the tax system alone reduces the population density in urban areas by 15%.
This system of impromptu bike renting is helping urban areas reduce automotive traffic and pollution while providing locals and tourists with a convenient, cheap and healthy means of transport.
The 250-mile long system covers an area that goes from densely urban to glorious countryside in just a single fare, easily transporting passengers from Central London into Epping Forest or the Chiltern Hills.
In 2003, Skyhook pioneered the development of the Wi-Fi Positioning System to provide precise and reliable location results in urban areas.
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But increasing those benefits would reduce the money available for reform of the whole system, according to researcher Marilyn Moon at the Urban Institute.
Cards in Urban Rivals needed to be trained individually, in Fantasy Rivals that system has been refined and streamlined.
Yayat Supriatna, an urban planning expert, told the BBC that Jakarta's drainage system "is still the same as it was in the Dutch colonial era" and should be rebuilt.
We put a job training and placement system together that eventually included river bank and estuary stabilization, urban forestry, brownfield remediation and green-roof installation.
The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Church's Bishop for Urban Life and Faith, said he feared Britain would simply return to a "financial system based on indebtedness" after the current crisis.
Due to the overpopulation in urban areas, African governments will not be in a position to possibly provide an efficient housing system.
If successful, the firm believes this type of system could form part of a new approach to sustainable farming, making use of urban greenbelts while helping to reduce the carbon footprint associated with food production -- which accounts for up to 30% of total emissions worldwide, according to a 2008 Greenpeace report.
It portrays the innovative work of former Mayor of Curitiba (Brazil), Jaime Lerner, who was responsible for developing an efficient public transport system (the MetroBus), and a clever system of sorting of waste (Cambio verde), which offers to the poorest urban dwellers the possibility to exchange recyclable waste for fruits and vegetables.
But the system was delayed by technical glitches in the payment kiosks supplied by Montreal-based PBSC Urban Solutions Inc.
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs (HUD) Mercedes Marquez detailed the steps HUD is taking to create a more responsive system that offers easier access, monitors results, and is efficient and accountable.
Actively protecting and fostering the strengths of urban centres, while preventing and managing the negative effects of urbanization was noted as a vital opportunity for the UN system to achieve its overarching development goals.
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