Sentences with phrase «growth in number of 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.

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Other cities to show dramatic growth included Austin, Seattle, Boston and Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, the number of A rounds financed in the Bay Area was down about six pecrent.

Hong Kong has been hit hard by slowing economic growth in China, which has battered the number of big - spending Chinese tourists traveling to the city.

This metropolitan area (which includes Oakland and Fremont, Calif.) saw the largest proportion of venture capital - backed business exits over the past year compared to other major cities, meaning there are a large number of what Kauffman identifies as «growth companies» in San Francisco and the East Bay.

Moving up a rank since last year, the southern city has a 95.6 percent startup growth rate: The number of employees at a Nashville company grows an average of 95.6 percent in the company's first five years.

English is the second language of choice for many Cambodians, especially in major cities and destinations, thanks to the growth of tourism and increasing number of international companies entering the market.

Not just concentrated in high - growth Asian economies, ecosystems are expanding rapidly in cities like Ho Chi Minh City, Manila, and Karachi, as seen through the growing number of incubators and accelerators.

Well, I'd say demographics are part of it: those big city condos suit retiring boomers, and also suit the twentysomethings (the latter of which have been growing in numbers over the past few years) so there is some natural growth that comes from that.

MSN has compiled this list of the 10 best cities for recent college grads by looking at factors like cost of rent, the job growth rate, unemployment, the number of twentysomethings living in the city and average salary for a recent grad.

Cities in the South grew at double the rate of cities elsewhere; growth in the number of businesses in the same group was nearly double that of those in the North between 2004 andCities in the South grew at double the rate of cities elsewhere; growth in the number of businesses in the same group was nearly double that of those in the North between 2004 andcities elsewhere; growth in the number of businesses in the same group was nearly double that of those in the North between 2004 and 2013.

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.

And while net total job growth numbers are steady for the state as a whole, he said, 90 percent of these new jobs are created in the New York City metro area.

«With no Hispanic holding a state - wide or New York City wide political office and with Census data showing Hispanic growth is substantial in 60 of 62 counties in the State, the appointment makes two the number of Hispanic serving as heads of state agencies under Andrew Cuomo.

De Blasio explained that more than two decades of rapid growth in housing costs, combined with slower growth in wages, had contributed to a 115 percent increase in the number of people living in city shelters from 1994 to 2014, when de Blasio took office.

The head of the agency noted that the number of for - hire vehicles on city streets has swollen to 130,000 from 50,000 in 2011, while the number of certified drivers has doubled to 180,000 from 90,000 — with «the overwhelming majority» of the growth owing to apps like Uber and Lyft.

While net total job growth numbers are steady for the state as a whole, most of these new jobs are created in the five boroughs of New York City.

According to the Institute of International Education (New York City), the number of foreign students enrolled at U.S. colleges in 2002 - 2003 grew less than 1 percent, following five years in which the annual growth rate was 5 percent.

New Delhi is among several Asian cities, including Beijing, that are suffering from toxic levels of pollution fuelled by industrial growth and a surge in the numbers of vehicles crowding their roads.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

BLAST MAGAZINE — Dec 14 — Forbes looked at 40 of the largest cities in the US and ranked them according to «coolness, cost of living alone, culture, job growth, online dating, nightlife and number of singles».

Its tight controls on entry into the charter space have come to typify the authorizing process in many states — and have given rise to a number of the country's best - performing schools and networks of any type, including Success Academy in New York City, Achievement First in Connecticut, Brooke Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector growth.

Like the New York City «progress» score, a «growth» number like 60 means that the students at that school generally scored better than 60 % of the students in the state who had similar scores the previous year.

A population growth of 7 % ranks Whitehorse number eight of all the cities in our study.

While employment has historically relied on the city's tourism and shipping terminals, the Charleston Digital Corridor has paved the way for growth in the IT sector; a number of major companies have made their home in Charleston, including Blackbaud, SPARC, and BoomTown.

In the wake of a small number of homes for sale and small dwindling number of new properties under construction, TREB is forecasting another year of double digit price growth in the citIn the wake of a small number of homes for sale and small dwindling number of new properties under construction, TREB is forecasting another year of double digit price growth in the citin the city.

The study, presented to city council Tuesday, found the residential non-occupancy rate was 4.9 per cent in 2002 and 4.8 per cent in 2014, although the number of empty units rose from 8,400 to 10,800 due to overall growth in housing stock.

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High Speed 1 is fully connected into Europe's fast expanding high - speed network and we expect to see continuing growth in the number of travellers making longer connecting journeys from towns and cities across the UK to Belgium and France, as well as to destinations in the Netherlands and Germany.»

Nurul Islam, Jamuna Group's Chairman, said: «Considering the huge growth of international business transactions in Bangladesh, especially in Dhaka Mega City and the present economic growth, the number of existing international hotels is not enough to meet the demand.

TransitCenter, a New York - based foundation dedicated to transit reform, identifies growth in the number of people who ride transit often and for multiple purposes as an important indicator of whether transit is serving its function of helping a city meet its «triple bottom line» of economic growth, environmental stability, and social equity,» Binns reports.

With fast urbanization and population growth in Iran, the number of visitors to green spaces around the cities has increased, putting a strain on the environment with increased littering.

London is emerging as a global leader in law - tech, with an increasing number of high growth international legal start - ups choosing the city as their second market.

Lehi is a city in Utah that has recently seen a lot of growth and there are a number of real estate opportunities for people living in the city.

Today, the city has a population of more than 6,700 residents and has seen economic growth due to the increased number of wind farms in the area.

The number of vehicle accidents is increasing along with rapid growth in cities in Texas.

The chart below shows that a number of high - tech, low - cost cities in the Sunbelt rank near the top for one - year and two - year office - job growth — and may be the best places for REITs to target.

The job growth is also 4.2 percent, and it's the second - top city in the country for the number of jobs that are becoming available.

New York has been making up ground: Since 2012, the city has recorded a growth in high - rise construction projects of 26 per cent, while Toronto's numbers have receded slightly.

Swanepoel writes, «A growing number of brokerages are not financially sound and, as a result, are reducing the products and the services they provide to their salespeople dramatically... An economic downturn in big cities, such as Toronto and Vancouver that have experienced almost two decades of continuous growth, could result in a large decline in the number of viable real estate brokerages.»

According to Schutte, the rapid development of the Tshwane municipal area augers well for the future of the highly dynamic city, as well as for the residential property market, which has continued to remain stimulated by this growth and buoyant in a number of residential property «hotspot» suburbs and centres.

A statistic from the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) states that the world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history; more than half of the world's population now lives in towns and cities, and by 2030 this number will swell to about 5 billion.

Researchers found that Seattle, along with a number of California port cities including Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego have the strongest job markets in the country and the highest rent growth forecasts this year.

The pace of detached sales growth was slower in the City of Toronto and the number of semi-detached sales was down compared to last year.

«The neighbourhood is ideally positioned for further growth as a greater number of homebuyers enter the downtown core, attracted to affordable condominium apartments and townhouses in the heart of the city.»