Sentences with phrase «populations move to cities»

When rural populations move to cities, birth rates tend to fall dramatically.

As the world's human population moves to cities, how cities grow may well determine the fate of the planet

Not exact matches

In a world with a population surpassing 7.5 billion people, with approximately 200,000 people moving into the world's cities every day, building remote teams that work from anywhere is more important than ever in order to sidestep the pollution of dysfunctional daily travel that has spun out of control in virtually every city across America.

Available to all, it might allow entire populations to move through a city faster.

In a report last year, the consulting firm McKinsey estimated that an additional 350 million people — more than the population of the United States — would move to the cities by 2015.

It was a clandestine effort by the city to make the homeless population «move along.»

I read about za'atar a couple of years ago, and as I had recently moved to a big - city neighborhood with a large middle - eastern population, I went to one of our local grocery stores and asked for it by name.

«I don't think it will be a niche market but you know China there are 20 million people moving in to cities every couple of years - you know the population of Australia.

«New York City's future will depend on leaders who understand how to keep New York City's middle class population growing while developing the economic and social policies that move our low income population into the middle class,» she said.

The plan, which the mayor largely supports, calls for cutting the current daily jail population of 10,000 in half and moving the remaining inmates to new jails across the city.

So many refugees have moved to Syracuse, they have been credited with stabilizing the city's population, according to the U.S. Census.

The measure, which was set to go into effect Monday, would make adults seeking shelter prove they have nowhere else to go — in a move that advocates said would force some of the city's ballooning homeless population into the street as winter approaches.

As populations both grow and move in droves to the cities, the popular diets of Africans have shifted increasingly to wheat products.

If and when a more diverse population moves in to Sun City, something of value will be lost.

China in particular stands out because of its sudden role as the world's factory, its enormous population, and the mass migration of that population to urban centers; 350 million people, equivalent to the entire U.S. population, will be moving to its cities over the next 10 years.

The new populations all began to appear around the same time, and they seem to have emerged independently; that is, the populations probably haven't grown through individuals moving from one city to the next, but rather, through escaped or released pets in each city.

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.

When I first moved to America from Shanghai, China, I lived in a city called Howell... population under 10k.

The government decides to close District 9 and move the alien population to a more «suitable» (read: far from the city) site where the locals don't have to look at them anymore.

When Black Panther star Danai Gurira was five - years - old, her parents moved her from Grinnell, Iowa, population 9,218, to their homeland of Harare, Zimbabwe — a bustling, urban city over two - and - a-half-thousand times bigger than the rural former factory town where she was born.

Even with these small minority populations, the conflict generated in these cities over efforts to move students to achieve economic balance in the schools was considerable.

Enrollment in urban Catholic schools, originally designed for an immigrant population, was falling, as Catholic families moved from central cities to the suburbs (see Figure 1).

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 20City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 20city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

«Providing efficient, more reliable, and faster higher - speed passenger rail options to move between cities is crucial for the economy and the population to thrive.

In a move that's sure to tick off... well, everyone... Amazon has released another list of cities that purport to have the most well - read populations.

A city experiencing population growth signifies that it is a desirable area for people looking to move, whether for social or economic reasons.

With TNR as the core of their mission, Karn and Mark moved forward with plans for a permanent facility to address the city's rapidly growing homeless cat population.

Once a quiet trading post on the fringes of the silk route, for the past ten years it has been the country's new capital and the population has exploded as people move to the city to work and study.

Immerse yourself in ancient Roman history when we stop at Pont Du Gard, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built in the 1st century; visit the amphitheater in Arles, the city with the most Roman remains outside of Rome, Then, moving on to the Middle Ages, visit Rocamadour, a town perched high on a cliff; walk by the ancient battlements in the beautifully preserved, medieval town of Carcassonne; and visit Beaune's Hôtel - Dieu charity hospital, built in 1443 after the Hundred Years» War left many of the town's population destitute..

Gathering apples, wood, stone, and wheat you move dirt around to start the foundation of your city as you pray a siege doesn't take place and wipe your population before you even get established.

Combined with extreme weather events the inability to find sufficient cheap fuel to mitigate climate change (e.g., moving whole cities from coastal areas) will relegate whole populations to hunger and starvation.

Let's suppose that you have a station originally in a smallish city which increases in population and that the station moves in two discrete steps to the suburbs.

As global population rises and more people move into cities, global cement production is set to grow by 12 to 23 % by 2050, and despite increasing efficiencies, direct carbon emissions from the cement industry are expected to increase by 4 % globally by 2050 under the IEA Reference Technology Scenario (RTS).

Perhaps those «brilliant» researchers might want to mention all the wars, the insurgencies, over population, Sharia laws, poor to thuggish governments, lack of to no education, rural moving into city life, or any of a host of problems associated with each of these countries.

And that effort meant people moving to the cities — a trend which began just about the time the LIA was ending and the Industrial Revolution began, when the world population was 1 - 1.2 billion [About.com], vs today's 6.5 billion.

One such element is based on population and crime statistics, where rural Dakotans moving to the big city can see rises.

Powerful trends are pushing the global community to develop more smart cities and invest in connected technologies, as the world population increases and more people move to urban environments.

One of his most remembered contributions to the growing city was his proposal to change the name from Franklin to El Paso.1 The population was at around roughly 10,000 in 1890 after several large railroad companies moved into town.

In the last several years we have started to see commercial real estate developers take advantage of a reverse shift, where populations are moving back into city centers.