Sentences with phrase «increasing population of cities»

Exposure to pollution is associated with the increasing population of cities, but people who live in rural areas are also at risk.

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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.

With the establishment of Wal - Mart, the country's largest company, the city's Jewish community became significant, and the city's population increased significantly.

The share of the world's population living in cities is steadily increasing.

Redevelopment efforts are giving overlooked areas of the city new life and Detroit's population has begun increasing again, particularly within the downtown and midtown neighborhoods.

(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.

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.

Lyon created 20,000 jobs and 5.3 m square feet of office space, while Japan's comparison data showed an increase in jobs, construction, population and land value in all the cities that had a station.

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.

Ulrich said he proposed the legislation out of the need for increased funding for the Mayor's Office of Veterans» Affairs (MOVA), which relied heavily on coordinating with other city agencies to address issues of homelessness, mental health and unemployment in the city's veteran population.

Last time the districts were redrawn, Republicans led the governing body and managed to skew the process in their own favor — leaving most of the underpopulated districts upstate, while the growing populations in the New York City region went unrecognized by a matching increase in proportional representation.

While the population of the city's jails is lower than ever, there has been an increased focus on them, following news stories about brutality at the hands of correction officers, a rise in inmate - on - inmate violence, efforts to end or reduce solitary confinement and a federal lawsuit that alleged a «culture of violence» in the city's jails.

An annual count of the city's unsheltered population showed a 40 percent increase in homeless people on city streets, despite the efforts of the de Blasio administration to curb the rising rate of homelessness.

«As the Council begins our Executive Budget hearings on May 6th, we will continue to strongly push for critical investments that will greatly expand employment opportunities for our young people by increasing the number of year round and summer youth jobs, advocating for vital legal services and workforce development skills to support our growing immigrant population and fighting to combat food insecurity in our City,» they said.

In his letter to Census Bureau director Robert Groves, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, «It is our expectation that the city's population could increase by tens of thousands of New Yorkers if the errors... were corrected.»

«The convergence of population and climate hotspots leads to an increase in exposure larger than that produced by either alone,» says Bryan Jones of the City University of New York.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Quite clearly, as towns and cities expand, and as the world's population increases, the chances of a meteorite striking a person or some kind of artefact are going to increase.

In the centuries that followed, during which the city's population increased more than tenfold, more than 20 botanists recorded the flora of Halle.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

Surprisingly, the population of Cantona increased during the early part of the dry period, perhaps because of political upheaval elsewhere that increased the importance of the heavily fortified city, she said.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

The dangers only become more obvious and the need to increase the resilience of cities more urgent when you consider that 50 % of the world's populations now live in cities, and 1.5 million people are migrating to urban areas every week.

It coincides with the recovering economy, an increase in donations of clothing and household goods to charity, and a trend toward downsizing as U.S. population growth shifts from the suburbs to city centers in many areas.»

The largest increase in New York Citys population occurred in the borough of Brooklyn, which showed a population increase of 5.3 between the 2010 census and 2016 estimates.

Blade Runner 2049 picks up three decades after the events of the original film, Tyrell Corporation has been bought out, Replicants were prohibited and later reinstated under stricter policy and cities have become gridlocked and towering as populations have been exponentially increased.

The schools» transition from stately, which was characteristic of the early 20th century, to sterile has several explanations: the spread of modernism generally, the devaluation of public architecture in particular (city halls have been victims too), the physical growth of schools through both district consolidation and population increase, and fiscal pressures in the public sector.

The report, «Youth Violence: Gangs on Main Street, U.S.A.» studies the increase in gang activity in cities with populations of 50,000 to 150,000, and describes the responses of four cities: Las Cruces, N.M.; Peoria, Ill.; Topeka, Kan.; and Yakima, Wash..

The bill would increase the minimum population to 25,000, require SDE determine the financial capability of a city to sustain a school system before the city could establish a city school system.

The bill would increase the minimum population to 25,000, require SDE to determine the financial capability of a city to sustain a school system before the city could establish a city school system.

Since the majority of the state's population is centered in the eastern half of state, along I - 35 stretching into Oklahoma City, the highways have experienced increased congestion.

In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) Balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) Understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) Long - term pl...

Renting in this thriving city of 350,000 people is not difficult, but with a population increase of more than two percent per year, the rental market has tightened up a bit in recent years.

The city has experienced explosive growth with a population increase of approximately 21 % since the 1990 U.S. Census.

With a 53 % increase in population since 2000, Raleigh is a city of explosive growth.

With 252,000 people and a 45 % population increase since the turn of the century, Chula Vista is a growing, thriving city.

The Northeast includes places where weight of snow and ice can cause loss, but it also places like New York City where theft and fire pose increased risk due to population density.

With the rise of urban areas and increase of the city - dwelling population, small breed dogs have become more popular than ever before.

Aware of Portland's burgeoning homeless population, those living in one of the most pet friendly cities in the U.S. were alarmed to witness the increasing numbers of pets living on Portland's streets and in homeless camps.

In fact, in those towns and cities that have implemented such programs, we've already seen the number of companion animals who had to be euthanized decline by 30 to 60 percent - even in those communities whose human populations have been steadily increasing.

About The Surge Set in a heavily dystopian future as Earth nears the end of its life, those who remain in the overpopulated cities must work to survive as social programs become saturated by an ageing population and increasing environmental diseases.

After peaking in population in 1950, the city began to feel the effects of large - scale migration to the suburbs, a downturn in industry and commerce as businesses left for cheaper places, an increase in crime and social disorder, and an upturn in its welfare burden — all of which led to a fiscal crisis that pushed the city on the verge of complete collapse.

Lilith Taveril wrote, «Finally, providing necessary transportation to all of the city's population results in a massive increase in buses themselves, which all run on diesal engines (no setup for electrical buses is currently possible with the way the power grid is constructed), and would negate much of the pollution benefit.»

Finally, providing necessary transportation to all of the city's population results in a massive increase in buses themselves, which all run on diesal engines (no setup for electrical buses is currently possible with the way the power grid is constructed), and would negate much of the pollution benefit.

Flood exposure is increasing in coastal cities owing to growing populations and assets, the changing climate, and subsidence Here we provide a quantification of present and future flood losses in the 136 largest coastal cities.

Cities, states and nations spend huge sums of money today via incentives, subsidies and programs to increase economic growth, the effect of which is to increase population, consumption, and pollution.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

Both the population and its per - capita technology increased enormously in the intervening 60 years, with WW2 technology capable of obliterating cities with both conventional and nuclear weapons that WW1 generals could only dream of, and with WW3 postponed as sheer MAD - ness.

Yokohama is the second - largest city in Japan with a population of 3.7 million and like many other cities in the world, rapid urbanisation has increased energy use, caused traffic jams, and led to spikes in air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Not surprisingly, the capital city of Perth (population 1.6 million in 2009) had the highest averaged increase in mean maximum temperature among all 32 locations, including pre-1910 data, over the hundred years (1.7 degrees C).