Sentences with phrase «because urban dwelling»

City living is seldom lauded by environmentalists, but it may be our most environmentally friendly trait as a species, because urban dwelling is vastly more efficient than living in the countryside.

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Eunice Goes suggested to me that the sneers against areas such as Hampstead and Islington are part of a wider cynicism about urban - dwelling educated people that has existed for centuries but is becoming more prevalent in our post-factual age, «there is a very long established tradition of anti-intellectualism in England that is more about posturing than reality because there are lots of excellent English intellectuals».

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