Sentences with phrase «from urban density»

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Pür Gum — which now has revenues in excess of $ 10 million, about 60 % of which come from outside Canada — soon began to target certain high density U.S. urban regions — New York, parts of California, Florida — all «health hubs» where Klein reckoned he could visit many potential retailers without logging a huge amount of travel time.

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

Also, crime rates are lower in rural areas than in urban city centers, and police response times are much slower in rural areas than in urban areas due to the lower population density which means long distances from a police station to the average crime scene.

This likely results from the living conditions - in urban areas, cooperative living is the rule due to population density.

As it is, McMahon said, Cuomo's program promises to promote growth in a way that will increase Syracuse's urban density and spur sales tax growth from greater economic activity.

These so - called urban heat islands result from various factors, such as population density, surface sealing, thermal radiation of buildings, industry, and transport as well as lacking vegetation.

«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.

The plans are isolated from broader decisions about the location, density and design of urban development.

One that wasn't paywalled, The Influence of Urban Form on GHG Emissions in the U.S. Household Sector, showed that «doubling population - weighted density is associated with a reduction in CO2 emissions from household travel and residential energy consumption by 48 % and 35 %, respectively.»

As our urban density increases, with soaring apartments and office blocks, sunlight is again being banished from our cities.

• Urban, high density and high - rise buildings • Low - rise and rural approaches • Buildings from the arctic to the tropics • Policymakers with growing expertise in implementing Passive House programs • Multi-family housing, both affordable and market rate • Integration of renewable energy • Steel and concrete construction, wood frame construction and cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction • The processes, details and results of passive house projects

when combined, these factors are sometimes referred to as «urban morphology»... «urban morphology (the hottest zones in the city are those with the tallest and the highest density of buildings, without green spaces and with intense generation of heat from traffic, commerce and services);»

The high - density urban coastal corridor from Washington, D.C., north to Boston is one of the most developed environments in the world.

Jay Austin designed The Matchbox with help from Tony Gilchriest and Urban Density Lab's Matt Battin.

Deprived of the arguments from depletion, national security and global warming, the campaign to increase urban density and mass transit rests on nothing but a personal taste for expensive downtown living, a taste which the suburban working - class majorities in most developed nations manifestly do not share.

The pilot system is being funded by a grant from the Washington State Department of Transportation in the hope that «corporate campuses, vacation destinations and high - density urban and public transit locations» will see the value of these systems.

This neighbourly consideration for increased urban density makes the aVOID a bit different than its North American counterparts, which are often designed to be situated separately from one another.

As more and more coastal cities face growing challenges ranging from rising sea levels to population density problems, more and more urban planners are switching to building unconventional means as a solution.

My measure of whether home prices are rising faster in urban or suburban neighborhoods within a metro is the coefficient from a tract - level regression of the 2010 - 2016 change in home prices on the log of household density, weighted by the number of households in the tract.

While those who prefer urban living have embraced higher - density housing, folks looking for traditional ground - oriented housing must move farther and farther away from the city to find it.