Sentences with phrase «more urban world»

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But there's more to this city than its looks, including a dynamic urban center chock - full of world - class art, food, and design.

Our new white paper explores urban analytics for digital cities with an estimated more than 50 % of the worlds population now living in cities, many city leaders are turning to «Smart Cities» as the solution for their urbanization challenges.

One of the more interesting recent fantasy writers, China Mieville, thinks so — and has developed his urban, industrial, and democratic «Bas Lag» world as a direct competitor to Tolkein's Middle Earth, which he considers implicitly reactionary.

More substantially, Hobgood - Oster gets the evolution of animal compassion exactly backwards: «As humans became and continue to become more urban and less connected to animals and the natural world around them, animals are increasingly removed from the sacred circle of hospitality.&raMore substantially, Hobgood - Oster gets the evolution of animal compassion exactly backwards: «As humans became and continue to become more urban and less connected to animals and the natural world around them, animals are increasingly removed from the sacred circle of hospitality.&ramore urban and less connected to animals and the natural world around them, animals are increasingly removed from the sacred circle of hospitality.»

Today, Latin America is more urbanized than any other part of the world — 85 percent of its population will live in cities by 2025 — placing the region at the forefront of the fight to reduce food waste in the urban environment.

So despite living in an urban environment, I'm actually generally less concerned about break - ins than I am about other hazards because, 1) we are busy and despite our best efforts to move through the world mindfully, there have been instances where we have accidentally left something on, 2) we live in a side - by - side condo and more humans means more potential for hazards.

Today's developing world faces just as much pressure to feed a growing urban population with nutritious, often more costly food — with increasing potential for global impact.

The report recommends that efforts to attract CAV manufacturers and academics to the UK should include development of one or more large scale testing environments covering real world urban and rural sites.

With places like Ulster County happy to add one job at a time in building a more prosperous, forward - looking labor force, the remaining 20 urban competitors for Amazon's second world corporate headquarters (HQ2) are playing an entirely different game.

The event «will bring together mayors from more than 20 cities around the world — plus other business, philanthropic, and urban leaders — to highlight innovative ideas and smart strategies for addressing rising inequality and fostering inclusive growth worldwide.»

Addressing transport emissions in a more comprehensive manner through urban design is one of the main themes at the U.N. World Urban Forum being held this week in Medellin, Colourban design is one of the main themes at the U.N. World Urban Forum being held this week in Medellin, ColoUrban Forum being held this week in Medellin, Colombia.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

In fact, there is far more published data on urban foxes in the UK than on foxes anywhere else in the world.

With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, urban sprawl is a growing problem — particularly in North America, where single - family homes and two - car garages are common.

In the megacities that are home to nearly 10 percent of the world's 7.5 billion people, trees provide each city with more than $ 500 million each year in services that make urban environments cleaner, more affordable and more pleasant places to live.

In a study published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, the researchers provide evidence to suggest that urban populations have grown more rapidly than the expansion of urban areas, leading to increased population densities in some of the most populated yet vulnerable regions in the world.

Katie Williams, first author from the Department of Ophthalmology at King's College London, said: «We knew myopia was becoming more common in certain parts of the world — almost 8 in 10 young people are affected in urban East Asia — but it is very interesting to find that the same pattern is being seen here in Europe.

If both spatial and temporal changes in storms continue, as they are likely to do as the world warms, there will be more destructive flooding across the world's major urban centres.

But as the world's urban population surges, and more people crowd into rat - plagued slums, the rodents are getting renewed attention from researchers and public health experts.

Indeed, the toilet of the future may be needed most by poor communities swelling on the edges of the world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural poor.

If the world's cities focused their investments on expanding public transportation, walking and cycling, they could save more than $ 100 trillion in public and private capital and urban transportation operating costs between now and 2050, according to a report released today by the University of California, Davis, and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

More than half of the world's population currently lives in urban areas, and the United Nations projects another 2.5 billion people will move to cities by 2050.

More than half the world population now lives in cities, many migrating to urban centers from rural hinterlands, a trend that shows no sign of abating.

«Urban expansion on the scale the world is going to experience is going to require more land,» argued economist Paul Romer of New York University's Stern School of Business.

This translates into an average temperature rise of 4.3 C over land in the northern hemisphere where most of the world's population lives, and even more in urban areas.

The labs in New York and elsewhere will «actively investigate how to make the world's urban environments more livable,» said Jim O'Donnell, chief executive officer of BMW North America.

The dangers only become more obvious and the need to increase the resilience of cities more urgent when you consider that 50 % of the world's populations now live in cities, and 1.5 million people are migrating to urban areas every week.

Recent research from the World Health Organization (WHO) found that more than 80 % of the world's urban population lives in areas where air quality regularly fails health standWorld Health Organization (WHO) found that more than 80 % of the world's urban population lives in areas where air quality regularly fails health standworld's urban population lives in areas where air quality regularly fails health standards.

In 2008, the world reached the tipping point where more people were living in urban areas than outside of them.

The current «urban myth» in the fitness world is that cardio will actually cause your RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate, also know as BMR or Basil Metabolic Rate) to slow down, resulting in weight gain rather Read More

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Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, has more than one million inhabitants in its urban area, it is the country's largest city and its financial Amsterdam Burlesque: Your guide to the Naughtiest, Bawdiest, Funniest, Sexiest, Most Glamorous Good Old Fashioned Entertainment in the World's most Liberal

Here's a featurette meant to help (re) introduce people to the world and history of Judge Dredd, featuring star Karl Urban, comics creator John Wagner, and more.

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Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

With Native American protagonist Conner Kenway at the helm, Assassin's Creed III rushed into 2012 with a revamped offense - oriented combat system (to help quell complaints of the slower, more reactionary system of past games), a large world featuring both woodland and urban environments, the addition of cooperative multiplayer, and a story that featured many iconic American heroes such as Benjamin Franklin, Sam Adams, and George Washington.

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There's clearly potential in this film, and it's a world and urban setting that I'd like to see more of.

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Tired of his urban existence, Marty yearns to see more of the outside world, and makes his escape, along with his friends out to stop him before its too late.

Understanding the effect of private school choice on real - world success beyond test scores requires data on outcomes like college enrollment and graduation, and thanks to three recent Urban Institute studies, we know more about this than we did a year ago.

The competition generated hundreds of ideas for building better classrooms around the world — from upgrading overcrowded urban schools in India to re-imagining smarter, more sustainable portable classrooms here in the United States.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Rio De Janeiro 2 - Social challenges in Rio De Janeiro 3 - Economic challenges in Rio De Janeiro 4 - Managing the growing of Favelas 5 - Planning for Rio De Janeiro poor The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Physical Landscape in the UK, The Living World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography shop.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - An increasingly urban world 2 - Megacities 3 - Rio De Janeiro 4 - Social challenges in Rio De Janeiro 5 - Economic challenges in Rio De Janeiro 6 - Managing the growing of Favelas 7 - Planning for Rio De Janeiro poor The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Physical Landscape in the UK, The Living World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography urban world 2 - Megacities 3 - Rio De Janeiro 4 - Social challenges in Rio De Janeiro 5 - Economic challenges in Rio De Janeiro 6 - Managing the growing of Favelas 7 - Planning for Rio De Janeiro poor The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Physical Landscape in the UK, The Living World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography world 2 - Megacities 3 - Rio De Janeiro 4 - Social challenges in Rio De Janeiro 5 - Economic challenges in Rio De Janeiro 6 - Managing the growing of Favelas 7 - Planning for Rio De Janeiro poor The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Physical Landscape in the UK, The Living World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography shop.

Meanwhile, these urban parents note that one of the reasons why they live in New York City is so that their children will grow up in a more diverse and «real world» environment.

«Ray Cortines has more experience, skill and expertise at running a large urban public school district in the nation and maybe the world,» said board member Steve Zimmer, explaining why the seven board members turned to Cortines.

In a world where millions of students, especially low - income and urban kids, are getting a poor education, teachers unions and school bureaucracies have been fighting choice programs for more than two decades.