Sentences with phrase «city population growth»

These and other works demonstrate the varied ways artists and designers of the period responded to a world transformed by industrialization, city population growth, and shifting social structures and political ideologies, forces that spawned both mechanized warfare and new forms of urban leisure.

Not exact matches

In many big cities, municipal land - use planning departments and other local agencies are hiring planners to help manage growth linked to population increases, burgeoning private investment and new infrastructure.

Over the coming decade, the 600 largest and best - connected cities on the planet will contain a fifth of the world's population, capture almost two - thirds of its economic growth, and encompass more than half of global GDP, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.

A recent ranking in Foreign Policy magazine evaluated 75 leading cities on population and GDP growth, indicating which would be the most dynamic by 2025, and only one was Canadian: Toronto, at 52nd.

«Seattle is a city of great prosperity that has experienced tremendous growth of its economy and population,» the draft read.

In 2005, only 3 % of U.S. population growth was centered in the nation's top 50 cities.

But despite the growth in number of cities and city populations, Hinman warns that many of these urban centers may not be ready to accommodate a burgeoning population.

Many of the counties with the highest net immigration relative to their 2016 population come as no surprise — counties in and around the big cities in the Northeast, in South Florida, and along the Texas border all saw a large amount of population growth from immigration.

As a coastal city, Vancouver just can't expand easily to accommodate population growth.

The Halifax Index, produced annually for Nova Scotia's capital, benchmarks the city against five peer cities on a number of important measurements: population growth, education levels, the confidence of the business sector, and more.

Further, Potter finds that population growth in each of the five cities has lagged the national average since 2010.

Denver — like Nashville, a midsize city that has seen brisk population growth in recent years — could see its already rapid rate of rent increases hit nearly 6 percent per year, triple the overall rate of inflation.

Singapore, whose population of 5.56 million has grown nearly 40 % since 2000, tightly controls the ownership and sale of vehicles through a bidding process and an annual growth rate that caps the total number of vehicles on the city - state's roads.

These three western cities are experiencing strong population growth, which has put some upward pressure on home prices.

«Given the size and growth of the American millennial population, it is critical for city and state leaders to understand the homeownership aspirations of this large demographic,» says Andrew Tam.

Urban and regional planners develop land use plans and programs that help create communities, accommodate population growth, and revitalize physical facilities in towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.

NREI looks at the top 10 suburban areas surrounding major cities that have the best potential for millennial population growth.

Most of the cities on the list had a combination strong population growth, job market stability, and expected home - price appreciation in 2016.

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

The uptick in rents at the national level is being mirrored in many of the nation's biggest markets — the map below show's month - over-month rent growth for the nation's 100 largest cities (markers are sized by population):

The extent of this rapid phase of church growth — how long it will last, what effect it will have on the general population of the city, and if these churches can endure past a single generation — «remains to be seen,» Carnes says.

Ready meals have experienced significant growth in Japan (over US$ 15 billion market size) largely due to their growing elderly population.43 Chilled and frozen ready meals are also seeing growth across Asia with the increasing reach of the cold chain and growing levels of refrigerator ownership in cities.

Land is tight and the city already reports it has too little parkland given population growth so there is huge push back on turning anything over to private developers.

But soccer devotees and other visitors will find much more than just housing subdivisions and shopping malls in the far western suburb, which explosive growth has made the fourth largest city in Illinois, with a population of nearly 135,000.

Congestion has intensified in Manhattan for a variety of reasons, including the enormous growth of e-hail companies such as Uber and Lyft; an increase in the tourism industry as well as the soaring population of the city, according to the Fix NYC panel.

The second was Lower Manhattan's unprecedented population growth, which has dwarfed all other parts of the city.

While some of this population surge is due to Hasidim, the traditionally garbed community whose cultural practices often lead to large families of 10 or more children (and whose neighborhoods voted more heavily for John McCain in 2008 than the State of Utah), the larger Orthodox Jewish population is experiencing explosive growth in New York City as well.

Much of the job growth has been driven by the New York City region as areas of upstate have seen their populations decline.

For Jamaica, StreetEasy attributed its rise to a number of favorable factors, including «a healthy growth in population since 2011, strong growth in interest among buyers and renters, comparatively low prices and convenient access to the New York City subway and Long Island Rail Road systems.

Community Board 1's analysis of Census data reveals that the board's area, CD1, has by far the largest population growth of any other area in the city.

Board 1's Diana Switaj, who prepared the report, updated it for the meeting with a chart showing that the overall C.B. 1 population growth towered over all other community boards in the city.

ROCKLAND COUNTY: Health Department Continues Mosquito Breeding Prevention The Health Department in New City has begun to prevent the population growth of mosquitoes by treating catch basins and storm drains.

«My case will be one for continued economic development and job growth, and making sure it reaches every segment of our city and population,» Brown said in an interview.

For years our cities have not been able to release enough land to accommodate their population and economic growth.

Health Department Continues Mosquito Breeding Prevention The Health Department in New City has begun to prevent the population growth of mosquitoes by treating catch basins and storm drains.

He's struggled to staunch the growth of the city's homeless population despite building or protecting more than 77,000 affordable homes.

As it is with other mega cities in the world, such as New York, New Delhi and Jakarta, the population growth in Lagos brings with it challenges, ranging from environmental to transportation and provision of a good road network, among others.

This plan continues Cuomo's approach of focusing the state's economic development grants outside of New York City, which is home to over half of its population but also has led in job growth over the past several years.

The proposal originated as part of Bloomberg's long - term PlaNYC, an effort to prepare the city for population growth and environmental distress.

In the past four years, growth has been strongest in Brooklyn (4.67 percent) and Queens (4.07 percent), while upstate cities generally saw their populations drop, the census bureau found.

City planners are hoping to encourage population growth in underutilized areas that are near mass transit, the website reported.

Others attack President Trump's immigration crackdown, which could limit population growth in upstate cities such as Buffalo that have welcomed refugees by the thousands.

A reporter asked whether the city is looking at any other contributors to congestion, like population growth, or any solutions to reducing congestion other than limiting growth in the for - hire vehicle sector.

Pierina Ana Sanchez, a former City Council staffer and White House intern who now works at the Regional Plan Association, noted some of the substantial gains the Bronx has achieved in terms of population and economic growth.

If your interpretation of population growth is true, why haven't cities already collapsed?

Can your insights about the scaling laws of cities help us understand the impact of population growth and urban migration?

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

In Singapore, where dense urban structures result in the UHI phenomenon, rapid population growth and the expansion of city development are expected to further worsen the quality of urban life.

«The assumption from past research has been that cities of all sizes will eventually decline in density, with greater amounts of urban expansion than population growth.

However, coastal cities worldwide have experienced enormous growth in population and infrastructure over the past couple of centuries — and a global mean sea level rise of 10 to 20 feet could be catastrophic to the hundreds of millions of people living in these coastal zones.