Many retro-urban theorists maintain that high density is the key to urban prosperity.
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Urban Watersrecognizes that revitalizing waterways transforms overlooked assets into treasured centerpieces that help drive urban revival.
In August 2010, the Company acquired Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group Limited (SI Urban Development).
There are many thriving American urban areas with densities below the U.S. average for large urban areas.
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However, urban areas, although better served than rural areas, are struggling to keep up with urban population growth.
The reduction in urban traffic also depends on the successful introduction of urban-congestion charges and taxes on workplace parking.
Urban exploration, or urban spelunking, has become a blanket term for the act of adventuring to normally unseen parts of a city.
North London-based Urban Harvest also organises events, including edible flower walks and the urban harvesting of plums, apples and chestnuts.
The Tories are also opposed to both urban and inter-urban congestion charging, even though the last Conservative government proposed tolls on motorways.
Although Chinese officials define the population as being already nearly 50% urban, the number of urban hukou holders is only around 35%.
My answer is that any American police chief ultimately finds out that the single toughest strategy on urban crime is urban education.
Our new urban agenda will focus on making regions and urban areas more economically competitive, environmentally sustainable, and expand opportunity for everyone.
Even though urban health care receives a disproportionate share of total government spending on health, many urban residents fare just as badly.
That means that the amount of urban land will double in only 19 years, whereas the urban population will double in 43 years.
To enable Housing and Urban Development to identify individuals who have defaulted on a Housing and Urban Development obligation and initiate debt collection.
The prohibitive expense of urban health care for those not registered as permanent urban residents forces migrant labourers to return to their villages.
For travel delays, we used the Texas Transportation Institute's 2005 Urban Mobility Report, which compiled the annual delay per traveler for urban areas.
We are working hard to persuade planners and developers to use sustainable urban drainage systems, which collect and treat urban run-off before it reaches rivers.
The centre, which was opened by the London mayor Ken Livingstone on Thursday, will help young people pursue careers in urban design and urban renewal.
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.
Urban land shortages and subsequent higher costs, coupled with a general densification trend, means high rises are sprouting rapidly in even the most sprawling of urban landscapes.
Moreover, in Britain the shortage of available land in country areas means that the trend towards urban living may increase despite the rising cost of urban housing.
And restricting land seizures could help push up the price of land on the periphery of urban areas and encourage a more rational use of existing urban land.
In Latin America, a quarter of the urban population live in slums and the youth population in urban areas is larger than it has ever been and growing.
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At Urban Media's first wired site, at 111 Sutter Street in San Francisco's financial district, six of the eight firms housed there now use Urban Media in some form.
The United States had become majority urban as recently as 1920, and then only by the U.S. Census definition of urban as a settlement of more than 2, 500 persons.
Urban Media and its rivals typically pay the cost of installing the broadband wiring, but Urban Media ups the ante by offering core broadband service entirely free of charge.
The emphasis on urban water problems has arisen from the heavy weight of the urban populations in the political process and, in general, their more active role in politics.
The potential for mobile devices to transform the urban environment is of particular interest to Anthony Townsend, an urban planner at the Taub Urban Research Centre at New York University.
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