Sentences with phrase «large urban region»

«We see good prospects for our efficient power plants in the Ruhr area,» which is a large urban region in North Rhine - Westphalia, he said.

Greater Los Angeles is the second - largest urban region in the United States, encompassing five counties in southern California, extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County on the east, with Los Angeles County in the center and Orange County to the southeast.

A couple of important facts, Greater Los Angeles is the second - largest urban region in the United States (New York being the first one.)

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Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

Chicago is the largest metro area in the Midwest region by far, with an urban population of 2.7 million and a larger metro area population of over 10.4 million.

This will include working to revitalize the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the Bronx, which supplies a large portion of the produce for New York City's and the region's food consumption, and creating a «Share NY Food» Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that develops partnerships with farmers and residents to expand access and resources and make fresh food available to consumers in urban areas.

To ensure «we don't lose any momentum with the third track, East Side Access tunnel and the new Penn Station projects,» Cuomo should nominate someone with commuter rail experience «in addition to the traditional urban bus and subway management experience,» said Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business group.

The region is a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working - class conurbations of Deeside.

The local election results are a consequence of the Government's disregard for the mounting pressure faced by councils «and the pain it is causing their residents», according to Steve Houghton, a Labour councillor and chair of SIGOMA, the collective voice of urban areas representing many of the large towns and cities in the Northern, Midland and South Coast regions of England.

Mayor Gary McCarthy pointed out that Schenectady is home to a chronically underfunded school district that is the largest urban district in the Capital Region.

Taken together, the Detroit River and St. Clair River reef - building projects represent the largest effort to date to restore a primitive, wild fish within a major urban area in the Great Lakes region.

The increase in population size also seems to have levelled off in the Turku region, whereas the breeding population continues to grow outside large urban areas both in the coastal archipelago and on inland lakes.

Exhaustive contact tracing requires large numbers of staff, and is challenging both in dense urban areas and in remote regions that are difficult to reach.

Professor Schneider continued: «While there have been studies that have assessed urban expansion and urban population growth across large areas, this is the first study of its kind to use empirical maps and datasets for every settlement and population in the 17 - country region.

Brussels, officially the Brussels Capital - Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium.

Leicester is officially the largest city in the region and the largest conurbation is the Nottingham Urban Area.

As part of the larger TFA model, each region believes that one day all kids can receive a great education, but how to reach that is specific to each region, especially given its unique local context, whether in a large urban area or small rural area.

The Learning Policy Institute surveyed 25 California school districts, including the largest suburban and urban districts in the state and a sampling of rural districts, representing every region in California.We surveyed 31 districts in total, choosing districts based on size and geographic representation.

Lisa Marie Lacy was a former Special Education teacher who taught for six years in an urban school district in a large metropolitan area in the southwestern region of the United States.

The Windows into Teaching and Learning (WiTL) project was conceived and actualized by researchers in a large, urban university in the southeastern region of the United States.

It is also our belief that small rural areas such as ours are in just as much need of these services as larger urban areas, especially in this region of north Florida and south Georgia.

Unlike most traditional Pokémon titles that take place across a large region, Detective Pikachu is primarily set within an urban sprawl.

Urban heat islands can increase the average temperatures over quite large distances (the entire urbanized region).

The emissions in urban areas are found to improve across all pollutants and regions as the emission sources shift from million of tailpipes to a small number of large power plants in less - populated areas.

William McDonough, a leading figure in Haarlemmermeer's drive to become a world leader in sustainability, designed the region's keystone project, Park 20 20, which is the first large - scale, Cradle to Cradle ® - inspired urban development in the Netherlands, and one of the most innovative business communities in the world.

The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

This is a picture in which we have an urban hotspot surrounded by a larger suburban region, both of which are undergoing an increase in UHI «$» but the suburban UHI is always weaker.

More importantly, although a single urban region may not result in a large impact on global climate, the collective impact of all urban regions on the global climate system is as yet unknown and unstudied.

• Risk of severe ill - health and disrupted livelihoods for large urban populations due to inland flooding in some regions.

In a second stage, those locations which were classified as urban fringe, and those which were formerly urban but are no longer (e.g. where a station has moved out of a town), were tested for minimum temperature trends which were anomalously large relative to non-urban sites in the region.

With more than 1.4 million residents, San Antonio is the seventh largest city in the U.S. and the southwestern corner of the urban region known as the «Texas Triangle.»

The xTEND project enabled the establishment of a unique set of mental health - related data from two large community samples across rural and urban regions of New South Wales in which to explore the role of community and interpersonal networks, adversity and depression as potential risk factors for suicide and poor physical and psychological outcomes.

The sample was also stratified by geographic region and counties» metropolitan statistical area status (largest urban areas / not largest urban areas) with probability proportional to total enrollment in eligible grades of the primary sampling units.

McCauley serves on the board of the Urban Development Institute (UDI) Pacific Region as vice chair at large, is a director on the board of Junior Achievement B.C. and is a past director of the Building Industry and Land Development Association of Toronto (BILD).

Purchases rose in two of four U.S. regions, including a 9 percent gain in the biggest region, the South; sales fell 17.6 percent in second - largest region, the West The number of properties sold in which construction hadn't yet started rose to an annual pace of 188,000 last month from 152,000, a sign that developers will stay busy in the coming months Report released jointly by the Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington

The regional span of the Greater Toronto Area is sometimes combined with the city of Hamilton, Ontario and its surrounding region, to form the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.The Greater Toronto Area anchors a much larger unofficial urban agglomeration known as the Golden Horseshoe and an area officially designated as the Greater Golden Horseshoe.