Sentences with phrase «more urban neighbourhoods»

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Shops and other services are more concentrated in town and city neighbourhoods, and urban residents are much more likely to use public transport, share heating and housing, and have lower carbon footprints than their rural brethren.

For example, greening neighbourhoods or painting roofs lighter colours will both reduce the urban heat - island effect and reduce carbon - dioxide emissions through reduced air - conditioning costs, while making cities more resistant to storm damage would reduce emissions generated from rebuilding devastated areas.»

A year - long study into the behaviour of over 450 blue tits and great tits found that a suburban neighbourhood with trees, shrubs and hedges between properties attract far more birds to their feeders than a Victorian urban terrace or manicured, modern housing estate.

The study, involving hundreds of people, found benefits for mental health of being able to see birds, shrubs and trees around the home, whether people lived in urban or more leafy suburban neighbourhoods.

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.

Additional offsite venues and centres are situated in other neighbourhoods of the city and in more than six urban areas and communities throughout the emirate.

As Terry Hartig of the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Sweden's Uppsala University writes in an accompanying commentary article for The Lancet, «This study offers valuable evidence that green space does more than pretty up the neighbourhood; it appears to have real effects on health inequality, of a kind that politicians and health authorities should take seriously.»

Rosenfeld cites the dog - unfriendly environment of congested urban neighbourhoods, the increasing popularity of aggressive breeds such as pitbulls and rottweilers, and a lack of training and supervision from owners as reasons why insurance claims related to dog bite and attack injuries have increased more than 50 % over the last decade.

«People who rented their home, lived in urban areas and resided in neighbourhoods with a higher proportion of single - parent families were more likely to be victims of a property crime more than once.»

Factors driving price increases in the country's urban neighbourhoods generally included limited property availability, a desire to be near the workplace, diverse amenities and more recently, the rising cost of fuel — which, when combined, have heightened buyer interest in these city - core areas.