Sentences with phrase «large areas of a city»

In the past, park officials tried to establish man - made ice rinks by flooding large areas of city parks during winter, Park District Supt. Forrest Claypool said.

Piracicaba City Hall partnered with Oxitec in March 2015 to use the mosquitoes and that programme is now being extended to a larger area of the city.

Detroit's school facilities are in a state of critical disrepair; necessary repairs can't be afforded, and large areas of the city have no schools, while other neighborhoods are flooded with options.

Two large areas of the City Park are roped off, one for large dogs and another for small dogs.

But large areas of the city are still empty tracts, leading economic sectors in medicine and education have not recovered, organized reconstruction is just beginning, and some neighborhoods may have been lost forever.

Our concept can happen on a very small scale, but we are hoping we can enclose a large area of the city, where we have a greenhouse with a botanical garden inside.

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To that end, Fortune combined Census population data with Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment rates by metropolitan area to find how average unemployment rates fared for the 100 largest cities in the country.

San Jose held the top position among the 40 largest metro areas in three of our five metrics: Its Q3 2017 average weekly wage of $ 2,297, 2016 GDP growth rate of 5.9 %, and 2016 GDP per capita of $ 126,820 were all best among the nation's big cities.

Kansas City's 2016 GDP per capita of $ 61,320 was just below the average of $ 65,391 among the 40 largest metro areas, and its job growth rate of 1.6 % between February 2017 and February 2018 was just below the average rate of 1.8 %.

Merritt Hawkins conducted telephone surveys of more than 1,900 practices in two categories of cities, fifteen large metro areas including New York, Boston, Miami and Los Angeles; and an equal number of mid-sized cities as varied as Savannah, Georgia and Dayton, Ohio.

• Lesbian couples who live in rural areas are much more likely to be poor (14.1 percent), compared to 4.5 percent of coupled lesbians in large cities.

The fires also damaged the Silverado Resort in Napa and a Hilton hotel in Santa Rosa, the largest city in the fire area, with a population of about 175,000.

Meanwhile, co-working spaces also were debuting across the country — and not just in the largest cities but in smaller urban areas and university towns with thriving populations of entrepreneurs and independent workers.

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.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

The so - called MTV Problem has put pressure on the three big cities to integrate a large number of immigrants while denying most other areas of the country the benefits of an expanding pool of labour that immigration can bring.

And immigrants are drawn to areas were there are already large numbers of their own community, which is what makes Toronto and other big cities so attractive.

Instead, alternative airports in close proximity to large cities or outside of major metro areas tended to offer the cheapest flights.

For a capital city, Raleigh is relatively inexpensive to live in, while boasting most of the opportunities and events expected in larger metropolitan areas, including pro sports teams, a large college sports scene, great food and drink, and citywide events nearly every weekend.

Last month, the city council approved a separate set of regulations that requires that drivers display the companies they work for in their cars (such as Lyft's pink mustache), mentions fingerprinting as part of the background check requirements, and outlines restricted areas at the airport and during large festivals.

Broken Arrow and Glenpool are both suburbs of Tulsa but the others are smaller cities separated from larger metropolitan areas.

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute and Central Valley Community Foundation today announced the launch of an in - depth study to examine Fresno's important role in the fast - emerging Northern California megaregion and how the arrival of high speed rail over the next decade will dramatically accelerate economic connections between Silicon Valley and the broader Bay Area and the state's fifth largest city.

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

This is pattern that has occurred in the metropolitan areas of other large cities as well, such as Boston.

This is considered one of the largest crowdfunded real estate investments in the city's metropolitan area and has reportedly performed better than expected...

In London or Singapore, most of the family offices are based in the same area, even the same neighborhood, making for a greater sense of community among family offices than you might find in a larger state like California with its multiple large cities (Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose).

For Tribune Publishing, spun off from Tribune Broadcasting six months ago, San Diego — California's second largest city, and the tenth most affluent metro area in the nation, with a population of 3.2 million — would become Tribune's ninth metro market, and a new twist to C.E.O. Jack Griffin's clustering strategy.

The building would be the first major development to take advantage of the Midtown East rezoning plan adopted by the city last year, which allows companies to buy air rights from other properties in the area to build larger, modern offices.

Most stories use large cities like Vancouver and Toronto as examples of what is occurring in the market, or they talk in generalities that don't address what's really happening in local areas like those served by the REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB).

The fact is that 80 % of Americans live in cities — and the 10 largest metro areas alone combine for a whopping 34 % of the country's total GDP.

There is, however, evidence of weakness in apartment prices in the inner - city areas of Sydney and Melbourne where strong investor demand over recent years has contributed to a large increase in supply.

Not surprisingly, New York City and its surrounding area is the breadwinner here with an annual economic output of $ 1.43 trillion — the largest for any city in the United StaCity and its surrounding area is the breadwinner here with an annual economic output of $ 1.43 trillion — the largest for any city in the United Stacity in the United States.

To find out which cities were poised to give investors a solid return, Local Market Monitor analyzed the 100 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. (all with populations of 600,000 or higher).

Of 23 national metro areas, the city saw the largest decline in housing inventory over the past year, the Houston Business Journal reported.

They've already taken over parts of Syria and an area in Northern Iraq that's roughly the size of Belgium and includes the country's second largest city.

In large cities like Moscow or St. Petersburg, hundreds of thousands of people live in residential areas that were constructed during the Soviet period and therefore have no churches.

But our parliament is 24 % women, and there are plenty of women in larger cities who are professionals, although in the rural areas, there is more of a traditionalist approach.

If one rides the downtown bus in one of our large cities through the slum areas in which children play in dirty alleys behind saloons, and then passes a housing project with clean, sunlit yards.

I know nothing of Julia Young's domestic arrangements, but my experience of large U.S. cities is that the educated professional classes tend to live so far from the areas inhabited by recent immigrants that they might as well be in another continent.

Hitchens claims that people who «speak darkly of borders as unnecessary and undesirable» also «live remotely from the areas most directly affected by the large - scale migration they say they support,» but I have lived my entire adult life in three cities that have been host to successive waves of migration: Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C..

In recent years frequently effective endeavors have been made through such means as group ministries in parishes in critical neighborhoods of large cities and various types of co-operative work in newly created housing areas.

They are concentrated in the South, truer to the stereotype — about half of their members live in these areas — with large numbers, nearly seventy percent, living in small cities, towns, and rural areas.

Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.

«I don't care who or what these criminals claim to be, but I can never recognize these criminals as part of my city or my faith community,» said Yusufi Vali, executive director for the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the largest mosque in the Boston area.

i guess i am not the only one who lives in an area where no one has ever heard of lacinato kale; i know about it from a larger city where i formerly lived.

«We're trying to get plants in larger areas closer to the customers we serve,» Stacks says, adding the new plant helps the company save money on shipping and logistics costs because of its proximity to two large cities.

As farmers move to cities in search of higher paid work, and that typically is only around $ 2 - $ 3 per day, large areas of land have become less productive.

Because, for many years, this area was accessible to only the adventurous traveler or those with planes or boats, outside of the larger towns and cities there were far more places to camp or drop anchor than accommodations for the casual traveler.

Le Méridien arrival experience consists of four elements: large - scale artwork in high impact areas; the sensory experience, illustrated through the brand's signature scent, sound and use of light; Unlock Art programme, featuring artist designed key card collections that offer access to Le Méridien affiliated contemporary cultural centers in the city; and a 24 - hour curated soundtrack.

Hey, it's not the prettiest city by a long shot, but it's the largest and home to a lot of Bay Area sports» fans.