Sentences with phrase «more urban residents»

With more and more urban residents opting to use a bike to commute to work, more and more cyclists are sharing the roads with motorists.

Working with cities, Motivate has helped bring the benefits of bike share to more urban residents and visitors.

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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.

Currently, there are only 44 resale homes available for sale in an urban center of more than 80,000 residents, with most priced above $ 1 million.

The prosperous postwar economy fostered the exodus of an upwardly mobile working class from the city in search of the more genuinely American housing to be found in the suburbs, and at the same time, the entry - level skilled and semiskilled manufacturing jobs once held by project residents disappeared from the urban core.

Queensland, meanwhile, takes the national preference for «plain packaging» to another level, with residents in both rural and urban areas being more than twice as likely to opt for supermarket brands as they are for Bega.

A new report published by the Center for an Urban Future finds that the record increase in tourism to New York City over the past two decades has spurred thousands of jobs in Queens and benefited thousands of additional residents who work in tourism More...

The cost of living is lower in most rural areas than in most urban areas, although part of that lower cost of living is attributable to subsidies of rural governmental functions, (like road and bridge maintenance and K - 12 education), by residents of more urban areas.

The economic tendency of immigrants to work in large urban areas is one of the main reasons that large urban areas have much more religious diversity, and many more residents who are neither WASP nor African - American, than rural areas.

But while the strategy is getting a warm welcome in other communities, back home in Albany concerns are building about the urban residents it leaves behind, and economic development officials maintain that its very success so far is a compelling reason for more state investment.

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA, consists of five undeveloped lots just south of Delancey Street that have sat vacant for more than 40 years after the city razed the site's former tenement buildings and displaced thousands of residents.

Measures that tackle the urban heat island effect also make cities more energy efficient (by reducing the cooling needs inside buildings) and more comfortable (by shading city residents).

To keep residents riding the rails and to win more drivers» hearts, Chinese cities are using various incentives and disincentives, as politicians promise to increase urban rail systems threefold and bus rapid transit 10-fold by 2015

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.

«Our study explains why cities suffer even more during extreme heat events and highlights the heat risks that urban residents face now and in the projected future.»

The report also recommends tax incentives to encourage more residents to purchase cleaner vehicles and possibly even implementing a Stockholm - like congestion pricing system for the city's urban core.

However, the ongoing loss of marsh habitat could cause Mottled Ducks to move into urban and suburban areas, where they will be more likely to encounter resident Mallards.

The USDA researchers used a different metric for urban areas, where residents may be more reliant on walking and public transit.

The biologist is currently investigating the prevalence of T. cruzi in kissing bugs, street dogs and cats found in El Paso, Texas, an urban city on the U.S. - Mexico border with more than 675,000 residents.

They also did not consider the health benefits associated with urban residents who use transit and walk more, and therefore may get more exercise than their suburban counterparts.

One in every ten American adults has used an online dating site or a. Urban and suburban residents are more likely than rural residents to.

That is more than double the 13 % that did so when we last asked about this behavior in 2005.16 Women are a bit more likely than men to conduct this type of research, those with a college education are more likely to do so than those who have not attended college, urban and suburbanites are more likely to do so than rural residents, and online daters are more likely to do so than non-online daters.

What's more, Camden Town is one of the only areas in London where street art is welcomed and encouraged, giving residents and visitors alike an urban art gallery experience.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

In 2013, the United States had 14.8 million students located outside urbanized areas (urban areas defined as 50,000 residents or more), down from 18 million students in 2011.

Colleges Discover the Rural Student Students from rural areas, where residents are more likely to live in poverty and have lower education levels than those labeled urban, suburban or town, only make up less than 30 percent of college students nationwide.

But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual «urban underclass» depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore's inner - city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early life opportunities available to low - income populations.

Rural residents (79 %) are more likely than urban (65 %) residents to think that it is easier to share printed books.

Rural residents were significantly more likely to have unsterilized owned cats, and to let their cats roam outdoors than the suburban and urban survey respondents.

Urban dwellers are nearly twice as likely as rural residents to assert that their pets have special nutrition needs (45 percent versus 24 percent) and they are even more likely to be concerned about their pets having food allergies or intolerances (51 percent versus 22 percent).

I recently had the opportunity to learn more about this remarkable young woman, who went on to transform Africa's largest urban slum and change the lives of many of its residents.

This urban center of about 70,000 residents is by far the largest in a country that has many different types of tourist draws, but Belize City itself is rarely more than just a transit point for visitors.

If resident landlords are decisive then this insight provides an urban silhouette based explanation of why some governments appear so much more willing to confront their citizens with the true cost of emitting carbon dioxide than others.

Data for countries and aggregates for regions and income groups are urban - population weighted PM10 levels in residential areas of cities with more than 100,000 residents.

As a resident in the Southwest, an area marred by both intensive agriculture and urban sprawl, it seems the answer is much more simple.

To be eligible for membership, candidate cities must have no more than 50,000 residents and must pledge to work towards implementing a range of programs from the promotion of organic agriculture, the banning of genetically modified foods and organisms, urban revitalization and historic preservation, alternative energy systems, preservation of local tradition and heritage, signage and light regulations, to building awareness of the local citizenry for the Slow City goals.

It is located within the Greater Boston area, so it affords residents all the benefits of urban living with more of a small town feel.

Thanks to stepped - up law enforcement in urban areas and more care being taken by Arkansas residents to protect their automobiles, auto theft is currently experience a steep decline.

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.»

Together, the more urban area has more than 21,000 residents.

Even if you live in a more rural area, about 88 percent of New York state residents are urban, according to Iowa State University — hence higher car insurance rates.

The correlation between larger and denser urban areas being more expensive holds true in Tampa as residents in the Downtown area pays a 15 - 18 % premium versus both New Tampa and South Tampa.

More than half the residents in Connecticut live in urban neighborhoods.

4 The 2011 PES introduced several methodological changes including expanding the sample and to include more discrete Indigenous communities and over sampling in urban and regional areas with a high proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents.

To be specific, urban residents in Nanchang and Shenyang reported more WFC than those in Chongqing, Wuhan, and Taiyuan; and urban residents in Lanzhou reported more than those in Chongqing and Wuhan.

Meanwhile, urban residents in Chongqing, Lanzhou, Wuhan, and Taiyuan reported more WFE than those in Nanchang, Shenyang, and Guangzhou.

Shanghai has one of the largest urban populations in the world with more than 23 million residents.

Meanwhile, residents who live in both rural and urban areas are being urged to cut back their water use, stop washing their vehicles as often, replace lawns with desert - like landscaping and replace washing machines and dishwashers with more efficient appliances.

As more people choose to move into the city to minimise commute time, maximise security and convenience; so do these urban residents look for more out of their cities than before.

«It is an extremely exciting time to be in city and urban property development, the opportunities for creative exploration are wide open and we are working more collaboratively with the city and spatial specialists on projects such as the Regent Road Parklet, offering pedestrians and residents free WiFi and a place to rest, and upgrading city parks to benefit not only Blok buyers, but the general area and its community,» says Jacques van Embden, MD of Blok.