Sentences with phrase «urban centres of»

In addition to visiting the larger urban centres of the province, the Public Commission has held hearings in numerous smaller communities including Terrace, Williams Lake, Nanaimo and Cranbrook.

This trend can clearly by seen in a 2007 survey of articled students in British Columbia that revealed that 82.5 % of students were intending to practice in the province's urban centres of Vancouver and Victoria.

Most of the projected increase in the world's population over the next several decades is expected to occur in urban centres of low - income regions.

Worpswede was a village about 20 miles from Bremen, itself a significant art centre, near Hamburg and the other major urban centres of North Germany.

For many visitors to Australia, the majestic Ayers Rock seems like a long haul from the most popular urban centres of Sydney, Melbourne and Cairns, but a flight over this national monument is a convenient way to see this stunningly beautiful area.

Despite rapid modernisation in Vietnam's urban centres of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, time - honoured traditions remain intact amongst the locals.

The Lonely Planet website warns, «Papua New Guinea is troubled by a high level of serious crime, particularly in the urban centres of Port Moresby, Lae and Mt Hagen.

Urban centres of this kind have thus far barely been explored.

From Men», the urban centres of Bukhara and Samarquand in Transoxiana were reached with the Gospel.

As Fiorenza has observed, «Paul's advice to remain free from the marriage bond was a frontal assault upon the institutions of existing law and the general cultural ethos, especially since it was given to a people who lived in the urban centres of the Roman Empire.»

Canada had about 20,000 inhabitants, most of them farmers scattered along a ribbon of settlement between the two urban centres of Québec and Montréal.

But these legitimate enterprises have done nothing to rein in illegal and unregulated prostitution in the urban centres of Las Vegas and Reno.

By the end of the 1960's, the David Dunlap Observatory, being located near the major urban centre of Toronto, found itself plagued with the problem of light pollution.

Continuing in the centre of the island, at the coast in the North - East from Arrecife we find another urban centre of Lanzarote called Costa Teguise.

Polokwane is the urban centre of the Limpopo province and the most important city north of Gauteng.

Victoria Place Guest House is a Victorian style Guest House located in Polokwane, the urban centre of the Limpopo province and the most important city north of Gauteng.

The laudable goal of choosing off - site spaces was to lure audiences outside the urban centre of Ljubljana.

Beardslee et al [43] studied 81 families, randomly selected at an urban centre of a health maintenance organization, with 153 children between the ages of six and 19 years.

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But Pinsonneault believes these numbers just support the growing notion that land, and scarcity of this limited commodity particularly in downtown, urban centres, is what is pushing up housing prices, not over-valuation.

«There are a lot of restrictions to opening a large store in an urban market — zoning restrictions, unions... The Shoppers brand, already having these stores dotting just about every major centre in the country, is an absolutely fantastic delivery mechanism for PC products.»

Arshad Chowdhury founded an international chain of urban «nap centres» called MetroNaps after seeing his investment banking colleagues sneaking off to doze in bathrooms.

Today, 71 per cent of its members live in urban centres.

One of the most pressing immigration challenges is the fact that 76 % of all newcomers have chosen to settle in the three major urban centres: Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

Data from Workopolis, Canada's biggest careers site, offers a snapshot of the markets in major urban centres.

The fourth - largest urban centre in the United States, Houston is a sprawling, auto - centric city of 4.8 million.

For us, shopping centres are part of creating thriving urban neighbourhoods.

While many are skeptical about whether or not this tax was the right policy tool, an influx of foreign investment capital, as seen in the Lower Mainland and other urban centres, does contribute to skyrocketing housing prices.

«The reality is urban centres have a density of population that allows artists to survive.»

«There's no doubt that Canada is at the forefront of discussion around how to create more vibrant urban centres, increase density and build more sustainable cities,» said council spokesperson Kevin Brass.

Some urban areas have earned a reputation as high - tech hubs, but smaller centres such as Whitby and Prince Edward County, both east of Toronto, are proving they have the right stuff for high - tech startups, too.

Whether in Calgary, Edmonton or outside of those two major urban centres, roughly four - in - five Albertans say their government is on the right side of the dispute.

Many urban centres lag the national average; Yellowknife has among the highest rate of computer ownership.

And, at the same time, neither of Alberta's major urban centres expresses a strong preference for regulation, following the overall pattern for the province:

While still down overall from last year when sales started slumping in the face of fears about the housing market and tighter mortgage lending rules, high - rise condo construction starts came in 22 per cent higher in major urban centres in May compared with April.

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Ivanhoé's U.S. expansion plan is focused on nine key cities with dense urban centres, and the group is behind many of the largest U.S. real estate deals of the past decade.

Toronto's MaRS Discovery District is one of the world's largest urban innovation centres, cultivating high - impact ventures and equipping innovators to drive economic and social prosperity in Canada.

This is one of the great advantages of working in serviced offices or co-working spaces in a major urban centre; the cross-pollination of ideas and inspiration.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

Bottling and selling drinking water has grown into a big business in India over the last 15 years with steadily rising demand from country's thousands of urban and semi urban centres.

Ross Carter, event director of both The Epicurean and The London Wine Fair, commented: «the interest in quality, hard to find or handcrafted drinks and food is significant, particularly in London and other urban centres.

That said, while only 32 % of the sample comprised people born overseas, this is comparable with the proportion of people living in major urban centres in NSW who have been born overseas (31 %)(Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007a).

Larger centres like Regina and Saskatoon offer an exciting urban mix of restaurants, galleries, shops and numerous year - round events.

This focus on urban centres as increasingly independently articulated nodes of a national political activity questions the established notion of a hierarchically organised identity from the top down.

[189] Urban centres are well served, and contain most of the hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in Ghana.

Whilst the significance of getting councillors in the northern city centre councils can be overstated by commentators (when there is a Conservative presence in the surrounding urban areas), this is still very symbolic, and encouraging news for Conservatives in the North West.

He listed some of key information required thus: «a. Terrorists sleeper cell locations; b. Terrorists concentration areas and outpost locations; c. Collaborators and informants to the terrorists; d. Suspicious habitations and living quarters within rural and urban centres; e. Suspicious isolated settlements and camps outside normal living areas».

Indeed, it was through chain migration, facilitated by kinship networks, that a significant population of Pakistanis ended up in urban centres in the UK in the first place.

Arianna Giovannini is Senior Lecturer in Local Politics in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, where she is a member of the Local Governance Research Unit (LRGU) and the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA).

The project saw over 300 km of new line built and 39 km of connecting lines to link to urban centres in South West France.