Sentences with phrase «than urban areas over»

Not exact matches

As a result, far more rural people have run for elective office or held an elective office or know someone who has done so, and rural people have far more influence in a direct democracy manner over their local governments than people in urban areas.

The Phoenix metropolitan area, a.k.a. the Valley of the Sun, has grown more quickly than any other urban area in the United States, following an influx over the past decade of Hispanic migrants and white retirees.

They also tracked Apolipoprotein E (APOE 4), a well - known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's, as well as lifetime cumulative exposure to unhealthy levels of PM2.5 — particles which are at least 30 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair and frequently cause the haze over urban areas.

More than 200 bodies a year turn up in the Sonoran, a number that has increased over the past decade as immigrants avoid urban areas and attempt to reach the United States by more remote routes, often through Arizona.

The researchers also found the urban areas experienced a huge increase in the number of «hotter than normal» nights — which actually decreased in the rural areas over the same period.

Kent Mackenzie's independently produced 1961 drama (when independent cinema was the realm of mavericks and dreamers working in the margins, rather than studio subsidiaries and major actors looking for a challenge) chronicled the lives of urban American Indians (all of them non-actors drawing from their own lives) on the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles over one long, alcohol - lubricated night.

The 273 - room urban resort's restaurants were overseen by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck... The newest luxury hotel in Budapest is the Aria, which opened this month; located next to St. Stephen's Basilica, it offers free breakfast and free high - speed Internet... The new 306 - room Sunrise Kempinski Hotel Beijing, which boasts extensive meeting facilities and a unique circular design, is actually located at Yanqi Lake near the Yan Mountains, almost 30 miles from the city center... Raffles Hotels has cut the ribbon on the 173 - room Raffles Jakarta, linked to the new Ciputra Artpreneur Centre in the city's Golden Triangle... Effective October 1, 2015, Hilton will take over management of the Hotel Nikko Tokyo, located in the waterfront area of Odaiba, rebranding it as the Hilton Tokyo Odaiba... In Central America, InterContinental Hotels Group has opened a newly built Crowne Plaza less than a mile from Panama's Tocumen International Airport.

Averaged out over a year, temperatures in greater urban areas, cities and megacities all across the world are now one to two Kelvin higher than in the surrounding rural areas.

This difference occurs as a result of the increased frictional drag on air flowing over built - up urban terrain, which is rougher than rural areas.

In fact, for the first time in over a century, population growth in urban areas is actually happening faster than population growth in the suburbs, as of 2011.