Sentences with phrase «into cities and suburbs»

I think I wrote this earlier, but again, reflect on the fact that economic necessity forces the majority of people in this country to live crammed into cities and suburbs, without access to fresh air, open space, or anything but the merest vestige of a natural landscape (and conditions are worse in much of the rest of the world), while lack of exercise & a diet of processed foods has created an epidemic of obesity and its consequent diseases.

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According to the Chicago Tribune, if you take into account the entire greater Chicago area — the city and the suburbs, extending into Wisconsin and Indiana — it has lost over 6,000 people.
For instance, BlackRock Managing Director Obie McKenzie and his wife commute from the suburbs into New York City every morning.
He's already thinking about how Maple's model might move outside the city and into the suburbs, where success would require a different approach.
She believed this was an excellent time to restore the self - confidence of women by giving them an extra-bounce in their step while bringing some light back into the Motor City, its suburbs and the State of Michigan.
Thus, light rail is no frivolous criterion, and it just so happens that St. Louis has one, offering convenient service throughout the city, into nearby suburbs and to the airport.
Baby boomers had kids, and those kids moved away from the suburbs and into cities (pdf).
The plane made it only about a mile from Savannah / Hilton Head International Airport before it nose - dived toward a state highway intersection and exploded into a ball of fire and black smoke, which could be seen across the northern suburbs of the city.
But we already have the dispiriting paradox of our real inner cities and suburbs sinking into a Grimpen Mire (the grim foggy bog haunted by the Baskervilles» hound) of actual ungovernability, as more and more bright people score brilliantly on SimCity.
As cities become more attractive to them, housing costs rise, thrusting the poor down into the streets and out into the suburbs.
As the population expanded around those centers, political processes incorporated the suburbs into separate towns whose residents could pretend not to be dependent on the city and whose political concerns did not stretch beyond their own boundaries.
While we are born midwesterners through and through (Dave from Champaign - Urbana, Illinois and me from the south suburbs of Chicago)-- and adore the four seasons, as well as the Twin Cities culture, we have always just sunk into the beauty and comfort of our ranch house in Colorado.
Pirate Life has just bought the property next door to its base in the inner - city Adelaide suburb of Hindmarsh and is busy converting it into a packaging facility with a second canning line to free up space in its increasingly crowded main brewing shed.
Determined to get the Rangers out of what he called «Islander territory» and into the mainstream of New York City, Werblin switched team practices to a rink in Hawthorne, a Westchester County suburb that is a mere 45 minutes from Broadway.
When I was in my early twenties, it was about waiting until after Christmas to buy a velvet dress at Kohl's for 60 percent off, plan with your friends to go into the city to Excalibur but actually stay in the suburbs and go to WhirlyBall because OMG, THE CITY IS EXPENSIVE ON NEW YEARS EVE WHEN YOU ARE 23 AND WORK IN RETAand go to WhirlyBall because OMG, THE CITY IS EXPENSIVE ON NEW YEARS EVE WHEN YOU ARE 23 AND WORK IN RETAAND WORK IN RETAIL.
In Some Girls, Lauren leads us through her troubled teens in a wealthy New Jersey suburb to her entry into the seedy strip clubs and escort businesses of New York City to her unlikely transition across the world to serve the sexual and ego - related whims of the handsome Prince of Brunei.
Cuomo was headed into re-election mode and he didn't need a liberal New York City mayor already unpopular in those coveted suburbs blowing up his spot.
Cuomo was headed into re-election mode and he didn't need a liberal New York City mayor — already unpopular in the coveted suburbs — blowing up his spot.
Cuomo's gun measure, rushed into law last year a month after the Newtown school shootings, remains popular in New York City and its suburbs.
Furthermore, crime, cruddy schools, and ossified municipal governments continue to cause upstate cities to empty into the suburbs.
The report suggests merging the Syracuse water department into the Onondaga County Water Authority, for example, or consolidating road maintenance work among the city and its nearest suburbs.
David Cameron was setting London as his test, and Ken Livingstone had moved into a two - point lead after identifying tube fares, police numbers and living standards as key issues for Londoners, and mobilising the Labour vote from leafy suburbs to the inner - city core.
As some of Buffalo's difficulties flow across the city line to the suburbs and some of the wealth from the suburbs flows into the city, Mayor Byron Brown and Erie County Executive Poloncarz are trumpeting their cooperation on issues like poverty, affordable housing and lead poisoning.
Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.
As Collier points out, in many cities the brighter and better - motivated black people have moved into white, middle - class suburbs so that there are far fewer role models in the black community.
I grew up in the suburbs of Boston, and have lots of high school friends who now live there, so when languishing in front of my parents» TV grew unbearable, I'd hop in the car and go into the city.
Sandy (Catherine Zeta - Jones), upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city.
Opening with an audio collage of 911 calls and news reports about Chicago's spike in violence, Death Wish lays out an oversimplified snapshot of urban decay as a foundation for the brutality unleashed by one man after inner - city violence spills over into an affluent suburb.
During the deliberations concerning the commission's report, I became an advocate of a proposal to divide the Milwaukee School District (100,000 students) into between eight and ten pie - shaped districts extending from the Milwaukee inner - city to the suburbs.
And the movement of blacks into suburbs very often re-creates the economically struggling neighborhoods they have left in the cities.
Such cities often poured money into improving city schools with little result, because they didn't prioritize breaking down walls between city and suburb.
School choice programs are created to bring white students and wealth from suburbs into cities or poor black children into nice, suburban schools.
«Crabgrass Frontier,» Kenneth Jackson highlights the importance of the school system in drawing families into suburbs as he states: «Millions of families moved out of the city «for the kids» and especially for the educational and social superiority of smaller and more homogenous suburban school systems,» (Jackson, 1985).
The sisters of the Missionary of Charity ran St. Rita's, and a few times every summer they'd take a van out to the suburbs, in New Jersey or Connecticut or Westchester, where some friendly white people would welcome the city kids into their house.
Albany is a growing city, creeping out into its own suburbs and slowly assimilating them.
Amidst the debates and finger - pointing, potential buyers grapple with ever - increasing home prices and this has pushed some first - time homebuyers in Toronto and Vancouver to move away from the city core and into the suburbs, sparking «crazy» bidding wars.
We've divided Calgary's neighbourhoods up into three categories: the core includes all the urban downtown communities, the inner suburbs are all the older, commuter neighbourhoods and the outer suburbs are the communities typically 45 minutes or more from the city centre.
Scarborough, which lies just beyond Kommetjie, is one of the few suburbs of Cape Town that remains far from the madding crowds, despite its proximity to the city and a recent property boom that has sent even properties here in Scarborough into the stratosphere.
Travel by train and you can witness slow, subtle changes as you escape the city through its suburbs and into the surrounding countryside.
Scarborough, which lies just beyond Kommetjie, is one of the few suburbs of Cape Town that remains far from the madding crowds, despite its proximity to the city and a recent property boom that has sent even properties here in Scarborough into the...
This means that there are plenty of hiking and bike tracks that intertwine the different areas of Canberra's suburbs into the city.
The gay scene in Sydney is a large one centred to the east of the city from Hyde Park - all through the Eastern suburbs into Surry Hills, Darlinghurst, Potts Point and into Bondi.
WHERE: A house in a quiet suburb, which meant it took some effort (and money) to get into the city centre
You phone 13 2629 and can pay the toll on your credit card up to 24 hours after your trip) into Melbourne, stay on City Link as it crosses Bolte Bridge and take the sign «South Eastern Suburbs», proceed through the Burnley tunnel remaining on City Link and as it exits the tunnel the road is known as the South Eastern or Monash Freeway, continue travelling on this same Freeway to the exit for Fern Tree Gully Road on your left, exit and travel along Fern Tree Gully Road for about 8 kilometres until you get to the intersection with Burwood Highway.
The property is also adjacent to several tram routes for ease of access around the city and further into the suburbs.
Chop off the legs, they demanded I chopped off the horse legs and the vermin that sucked on the dead beast scrambled across the floorboards I chopped the horse legs into thousands of pieces and they said what do you see I said I see thousands of bone shards and blood and bits of hair and in each fragment there are villages, towns, hamlets, inlets, streets, suburbs, cities, states, and countries Nations or countries?
«We see a kind of reverse migration of people from the suburbs back into the city and pressure being put on MARTA.»
With the dismantling of apartheid in the early 1990s and the flight of whites to the suburbs, Ponte City fell into disrepair, becoming an emblem of urban decay.
He said that as cities become more and more developed and spread into huge suburbs, our environmental footprint is getting larger and larger.
The popularity of this bike sharing program has led to its extension into 30 of the city's suburbs and has inspired cities such as London to also introduce bike sharing.
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