Sentences with phrase «poorer urban dwellers»

During this highly controversial campaign, the government demolished hundreds of thousands of structures, displacing between 300,000 and 1,000,000 people, largely poorer urban dwellers.

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A corn - based, protein - poor diet might have sent urban dwellers west in search of buffalo.

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 poor.

The most affected populations are the urban poor — i.e. slum dwellers in developing countries — who tend to live along river banks, on hillsides and slopes prone to landslides, near polluted grounds, on decertified land, in unstable structures vulnerable to earthquakes, and along waterfronts in coastal areas.

«The city is dominated by fossil fuel - powered cars.The elite still gets around, but most urban dwellers face poor transport infrastructure.»