Sentences with phrase «dense urban population»

For instance, premiums are much higher in Atlanta, which has a dense urban population.

Though a plant delivery service might work in a dense urban population, people who like gardening tend to live far outside city centres.

Regional Vice President for South Asia Isabel Guerrero discusses how an expected 2 °C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades threatens South Asia's dense urban populations with extreme heat, flooding, and disease and could trap millions of people in poverty.

Washington DC, June 19, 2013 — An expected 2 °C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades threatens South Asia's dense urban populations with extreme heat, flooding, and disease and could trap millions of people in poverty across the region, according to a new scientific report released today by the World Bank Group.

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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 denser the urban area, the better the benefit,» Kalkstein said, pointing out that a city like New York with roughly 27,000 people per square mile could save many more lives with vegetation and albedo enhancement than Los Angeles with its 7,500 - people - per - square - mile population density.

The average carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, population - dense urban cities is about 50 percent below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to twice the average: a factor of four difference between lowest and highest locations.

And in, population - dense urban areas - where enough suspended particles can be amassed - it contributes to the formation of the visible haze called smog.

Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world's most populous and population - dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses.

It's designed to help move populations from urban centers into less dense areas of the United States.

Dense animal population in kennels and urban settings increases the chance of exposure to infected urine.

And more specifically, the Cornell tower takes Passive House to a new, grand scale, and it brings it to one of the world's densest cities, a context that for an increasingly urban world population, will be more and more relevant in the coming years.

While the air filtration done by trees is much higher in rural areas, the benefits are bigger in urban areas because population density and pollution are denser.

The conference participants, which included a significant percentage of the country's architectural and urban planning heavyweights, also discussed issues such as transportation infrastructure in dense urban fabrics, population diversity in neighborhoods, open spaces and public buildings in cities, and the connection between high densities and tall buildings.

Creating well - designed, dense city neighborhoods that offer quality of life, sense of place and integrated uses and populations is THE issue in urban design today.

In contrast, in larger urban settings, with their more dense populations, neighbors (even in adjoining apartments) often don't know each, competition over limited resources is more pronounced, and the attitudes of winning over others, rather than cooperating with them, tend to prevail.