Sentences with phrase «largest urban areas by»

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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.

It's not the «fault» of those that live in rural areas that their influence is so exagerated; I think a large part of it was the PC's DELIBERATE gerrymandering of constituencies (about 20 or so years ago) to ensure that any urban opposition would be diluted by rural supporters.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

By some estimates, Kampala, Uganda's capital city and largest urban area, already generates about 60 % of the country's gross domestic product.

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.

The study included 3 992 patients who had a cardiac arrest outside hospital in a large urban area and were treated by physician - based emergency medical services between 2002 and 2011.

A shorter period covered by snow, more spring rain and faster snow melt can combine to release large amounts of runoff that have the potential to stress urban hydrologic systems and cause flooding in urban areas.»

A CoolClimate Map of New York City's carbon footprint by zipcode tabulation area shows a pattern typical of large metropolitan areas: a small footprint in the urban core but a large footprint in surrounding suburbs.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

Wennberg says that combining such measurements with OCO - 2 data could help researchers to detect hourly variations in CO2 production caused by plant photosynthesis — or even by rush - hour traffic in some large urban areas.

Taken at face value this math is hard enough on gay people in small communities, but it's made even worse by the fact that gay people tend to leave these communities and coalesce in larger urban areas.

Charter schools are more racially isolated than regular public schools in practically every state and large urban area in the United States, says a report released by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ten urban districts in California — including the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest — collectively called CORE (California Office to Reform Education) districts, have designed a system to make schools answerable for improving students» social and emotional skills by using data from student, parent, and teacher surveys, among other factors, to assess whether students are improving in these areas.

«Large high schools, particularly those serving low - income students in urban areas, have disproportionately lower achievement and higher incidences of violence than smaller schools serving similar student populations,» Dixon read from a resolution passed by the association.

«Modern luxury buyers who live and work in large, urban areas want to play their part in helping the environment by moving to a smaller vehicle, but they still want to enjoy the luxuries of life,» said Peter Horbury, executive director of Design, The Americas.

The area's employment rose by 2 percent, which, since it's a large urban center, adds up to more than 56,000 new jobs.

Here's some good perspective: A recent study by Trulia of the country's largest 100 metropolitan areas found that buying a home in these urban areas is 38... View Article

Here's some good perspective: A recent study by Trulia of the country's largest 100 metropolitan areas found that buying a home in these urban areas is 38 percent cheaper than is renting an apartment.

The largest metropolitan area in the South isn't just for oil tycoons anymore: By having the largest urban arts district in the country and the legendary Dallas Cowboys, Dallas has something for everyone.

On average, the large urban areas we looked at grew by 0.4 percent.

By the year 2000 feral and homeless dogs (as opposed to dogs who had homes and had strayed) were down to a miniscule number in most places, and continued to be a problem only in a few large urban areas and a few very rural areas.

Appalling Problem... In some areas, stray cats and kittens are everywhere and, rather like the large urban fox population, very few of them are fed, so their numbers are similarly controlled by disease, starvation and road accidents.

But if you live in an urban area where a large number of businesses accept mobile payments, you could potentially supersize your rewards earnings by using your phone for all or most of your purchases.

With a population exceeding 4 million, Selangor is propelled by urban growth and commercialisation, evident in the large numbers of shopping centres, business complexes and industrial areas.

At face value, the satellite data is supported by weather balloon data, covers a much larger area of the globe than the surface - based data, and, as you pointed out, is free from the urban heat island effect and other potential flaws of surface measurements.

We have been contacted with requests for information and assistance by affected people living in urban as well as rural areas, and the noise and vibration sources have included coal mining, gas fired power stations, large refrigeration units with compressors and swimming pool compressors in city apartment blocks.

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.

The event brought academics, planners, and policymakers together for the ninth time in one of the world's largest cities to try and find solutions to the problems shared by urban areas from Mumbai to Mexico City.

Many lawyers and judges appear to take the position that electronic technology in the litigation process is best suited for the large document cases which usually come before the court in large urban areas and are handled by lawyers from large legal firms with IT departments.

First, a large percent of North Carolinians reside in rural areas; the more rural the area, the less likely a home will be damaged by other people (rural homes are also statistically cheaper to repair than urban homes, so when damage does occur, the insurance company doesn't have to pay out as much money).

The average premiums are calculated after surveying around 2,400 cars and by taking the insurance rates from 6 large insurers, and from 10 zip codes per state representing the rural and the urban areas.

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.

Shoemaker Green not only offers an open space of lawns, tree - lined walkways, and sitting areas but will also improve water quality and minimize runoff, reduce the effect of the urban heat island by greening large paved areas, restore biomass on site, increase local biodiversity, and improve the overall environment for the community.

The report goes on to say, «Unlike the days when large companies dominated the nation's commodity production, today's manufacturing landscape is largely occupied by decentralized networks of small, specialized firms — many of which are hidden in plain sight in America's urban areas.

And in many urban centres, pavements represent the largest area of land cover (estimates range from 29 to 45 per cent) when compared with surfaces covered by roofs and vegetation.

Pot is now common from grade 6 an on in larger urban areas and is sold by small drug dealers who obtain their product from the BIG BOYS who do have guns.

«Although only 1.3 percent of all U.S. mortgages are likely to be impacted by the capping of the mortgage interest deduction, it poses a risk to large urban areas with high - priced housing stock,» says realtor.com ® Senior Economist Joseph Kirchner, Ph.D. «The No. 1 area with the greatest risk to its home prices and sales is Washington, D.C., followed by California, Hawaii, Massachusetts and New York.»

The typical driving distance traveled by independent appraisers, according to a U.S. survey of that country's largest appraisal management companies (AMCs), averages 13 miles in urban and suburban areas, says the Title Appraisal Vendor Management Association (TAVMA).