Sentences with phrase «increasingly urban one»

«We were surprised by how quickly sentiment is changing about the traditional homebuying process, and it's clear that the real estate industry needs to shift how it markets property,» says Rodrigo Lopez, Neoscape's chief creative officer, «especially to first - time home buyers, who are increasingly urban, savvier and more independent than ever.

Many Minnesota cities are becoming increasingly urban, and city dwellers are enjoying the convenience of renting or buying condominiums close to the growing centers of business and commerce.

American Farmland Trust (AFT), in cooperation with Dick Esseks and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln has just released a report «regarding the long - term viability of agriculture in counties that are becoming increasingly urban.»

contains the attributes for environmentally and socially sustainable settlements for the world's increasingly urban population....

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.

William Cronon in his book Changes in the Land describes the regeneration of forest cover in the US northeast as agriculture moved west and the northeast became increasingly urban and suburban with yards, parks, street trees, conservation areas and places that simply reverted to nature.

I think that's unrealistic: even in the developing world, populations are increasingly urban, and increasingly dependent upon «the machine».

Shortly after World War I, the U.S. population became increasingly urban rather than rural, but where artists lived did not necessarily dictate where they worked.

In our increasingly urban society, there are few «barn homes» into which these cats can be adopted.

We are killing our city dogs with our increasingly urban / technological lifestyles.

The whole region has an increasingly urban population, a growing middle - class, and rising disposable incomes — all of which fuels fast - growing consumer markets.

Not only is the state's total population growing (Idaho is the 10th fastest growing state), but Gem State families are increasingly urban, non-white and lower income.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - An increasingly urban world 2 - Megacities 3 - Rio De Janeiro 4 - Social challenges in Rio De Janeiro 5 - Economic challenges in Rio De Janeiro 6 - Managing the growing of Favelas 7 - Planning for Rio De Janeiro poor The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Physical Landscape in the UK, The Living World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography shop.

Ocean sea levels and the pressing challenges of managing cities in an increasingly urban world can not meaningfully be studied except on the enormous scale that globalization allows.

The WHO says the centre will focus on the delivery of healthcare in an increasingly urban world with research into the social, economic, environmental and demographic factors of health.

To safeguard the future of our increasingly urban species, our cities must be sturdier, healthier and more alive.

Not exact matches

As more and more people return to urban centers, modern transportation systems are increasingly strained.

This population will increasingly live in urban areas and have a rising middle class, both of which mean more meat consumption.

International organisations which had previously ignored the significance of cities in international development - such as UNIDO and the Red Cross - pleaded to join an increasingly popular (and highly lucrative) urban field.

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

Ironically, there are some signs here and there that the sort of traditional Protestant liturgicalism that Lutherans once exemplified is increasingly attractive — especially to urban Evangelicals searching for theological roots deeper than those often found in generic Evangelicalism.

Churches increasingly see missions in the streets of American cities; segments of church membership stirring up controversy; urban congregations moving to the suburbs; such issues as birth control, draft resistance, rebellion.

Largely reduced to an echo chamber, where an elite minority seems increasingly to hear mainly its own voice, the urban press is partly responsible for a new privileged generation of Indians lacking, as Nussbaum points out, any «identification with the poor.»

More substantially, Hobgood - Oster gets the evolution of animal compassion exactly backwards: «As humans became and continue to become more urban and less connected to animals and the natural world around them, animals are increasingly removed from the sacred circle of hospitality.»

However, in urban America today, that is increasingly the choice we have before us, and in that choice there is no doubt in my mind but that America will choose a police state, even the security of the Mafia, for historically security is always chosen over freedom.

Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their time.11 Perhaps the most important thing that happened to such men was that they became aware of the many factors bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.

As the vegan movement continues to gain prominence in the UK, especially in urban areas, and large numbers of consumers make the switch to animal - free diets, we'll increasingly see suitable for vegans stickers on all sorts of unexpected products on supermarket shelves.

This localisation (or, urbanisation) of citizenship may be expected to correlate more closely with the increasingly more place - specific nature of civil society in urban areas, offering better scope for «getting involved» in governance than at the more distant, «homogenised» notion of national level.

Managing transport demand on both the interurban and urban networks involves an increasingly important set of tools to meet the major national objectives of improving journey time reliability and reducing carbon emissions.

This focus on urban centres as increasingly independently articulated nodes of a national political activity questions the established notion of a hierarchically organised identity from the top down.

But the tribes increasingly feel they are being abandoned in favour of the Palestinian - dominated urban elite, meaning that the principal no longer able to meet the demands of new jobs, higher salaries and rural development.

Indeed, the concerns of these two groups are increasingly conjoined, as Britain's young population has become progressively more urban in the past two decades.

Learning how to optimize these spaces is an increasingly urgent problem: As of 2008, the urban environment has become simply «the environment» for the majority of the world's population.

Indeed, western cities have become increasingly critical of the imbalance between rural and urban regions when it comes to rights to water.

As the technology increasingly allows us to satisfy more eclectic needs, any time those needs require a physical presence — whether it's sipping your cold soup or meeting your crush in a bar — the logic of the long tail will favor urban environments over less densely populated ones.

Highways and urban sprawl have left the cats» territories increasingly isolated from each other, a study shows

The human experience is increasingly defined within an urban context, the authors noted.

To address environmental concerns, commercial vegetable growers are increasingly interested in using organic mulches derived from agricultural or urban byproducts and waste, paper - based mulches, and biodegradable plastic films and fabrics as alternatives.

Increasingly, bank branches are headquartered in distant urban areas — and in some cases, financial «deserts» exist in towns with few or no traditional financial institutions such as banks and credit unions.

Reducing the urban heat island effect is becoming increasingly important as cities prepare for future warming.

The law might require that anyone entering an emoticon into a smartphone would be required to stand (very still) within a foot of the sidewalk's edge or cough up a $ 50 fine.Going on foot from the Canal Street stop of the A train in lower Manhattan to the door of the huge former printing factory building where Nature Publishing Group has its offices has increasingly become a series of patterned avoidance maneuvers to skirt erratically moving objects immersed in text - crazed oblivion.Mobile devices have succeeded in desensitizing a not insubstantial percentage of urban populations from their physical surroundings.

Although some reports suggest that nutrition trends in the northeast have been improving, 23 and others are documenting the rise in obesity in the middle class, 24 chronic malnutrition remains endemic and has advanced from the northeast's poorest rural areas to the urban peripheries.25 The standard food intake pattern in Brazil is based on rice or manioc, beans, coffee, bread, beef and, increasingly, sugar in the form of soft drinks and fruit juices, 26 none of which (except for beef liver) are noteworthy for their vitamin A content.

Like other retailers Urban Outfitters increasingly relies on online orders and has been trying to speed up delivery times to compete with Amazon.com.

So when AI moves away from the placid confines of the suburban Swinton home and into the wild and woolly world of such locales as the neon - drenched, hedonistic urban center known as Rouge City or — in the film's most stunning sight — a Manhattan that is all but completely submerged in water, Osment's David remains a captivating companion on an increasingly strange and surreal journey.

A sumptuous score, phenomenal cinematography, unsettling sound design, and an increasingly unhinged York work together to make Altman's film a cult oddity which never received its rightful due (it does play like the equally relevant rural sister to the unraveling of Catherine Deneuve's urban beauty in Polanski's famous Repulsion).

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

The market for administrators in urban school districts is increasingly becoming national in scope, yet for mobile administrators retirement benefit systems with 5 - to 10 - year vesting systems can have a devastating effect on retirement savings.

Similarly, when urban districts need to close a set of schools in order to consolidate, they increasingly ensure that school quality is the first consideration — preserve high performers and close low performers.

In many urban areas, however, this was too little, too late: integrating urban schools was becoming increasingly difficult by the late 1960s and early 1970s because there were so few white students left in city school systems.

April 7, 2016 — To better meet the unique needs of different students, urban districts are increasingly expanding the options available to families by providing a variety of public schools: traditional, magnet, charter, and hybrid models.