Sentences with phrase «urban areas already»

It's not a matter of creating new eco-cities - it's a matter of improving the urban areas we already have to make them healthy places to live.

Our youth and elderly in Hudson Valley urban areas already suffer disproportionately from asthma and other respiratory illnesses which will worsen during the summer months ahead.

Not exact matches

Sidewalk's CEO Daniel Doctoroff has some experience rebuilding cities already: He is a former New York City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yards.

We already paved the way for a mega-development in an urban area with the requisite access to highways, rail, an international airport; proximity to major institutions of higher education; a redundant fiber optic loop in the works for Internet access, and capacity to handle the 8 million square feet of office space the company will eventually need.

By some estimates, Kampala, Uganda's capital city and largest urban area, already generates about 60 % of the country's gross domestic product.

«These first findings already reveal the potential that the site has for further research into the environment of the urban elites and for questions as to the luxurious furnishing in urban area.»

The report says heat waves are especially harmful to black people, who live in urban areas in higher percentages than whites, and who are also more likely to be low - income than other Americans and already suffer from higher asthma rates than whites.

«Enhanced ozone production in urban areas is a concern because of the population size potentially impacted and because air pollution levels could be already elevated due to local and mobile sources,» explains Larsen.

The ongoing gentrification of many of these urban areas heat the racial and class tensions already approaching the boiling point.

The real pressure for school expansion is in urban areas where the school sites are already overcrowded and additional land is expensive to acquire.

It has grown fairly steadily until it now stands at # 2.5 B, largely going to the already relatively well funded urban areas.

While it does already show favoritism to urban charter schools, not non-urban, from a purely performance - based point of view, Massachusetts» balance still is off; if the state designed the policy exclusively to maximize academic gains, it would raise the cap in urban areas and lower the cap in non-urban areas.

This is good news for the people who already own homes in those urban areas, but bad news for people who are looking to rent an apartment (which tend to be located in urban areas) or buy a house in these urban areas.

Overpopulation of the breed remains one of the chief concerns about pit bulls, especially in already crowded urban areas.

In urban areas or areas with a high rate of infection, it seems pointless to confine an FIV positive cat indoors when a large percentage of cats outdoors already carry the virus.

Image: UCAR Messing With the Local Air Currents It's already pretty obvious to anyone who's ever been in a city on a smoggy day that air quality can get quite bad in urban areas, but we're still finding new reasons why that is so.

Besides, Americans have proved stubborn in demanding lawns and privacy, and new towns to the contrary are mostly in architectural magazines or already overcrowded urban areas.

It argues that investments should start with low - regret options, with measures that tackle the weather risks that countries already face, such as increased investment in water storage in drought - prone basins or protection against storms and flooding in coastal zones and / or urban areas.

These projects, often in urban or industrial areas that already have access to electricity, are unlikely to reach those lacking access to energy.

For anyone who's lived here, it really doesn't take an expert to recognize that the island - state has a number of things going for it: a contained urban area (the longest east - west stretch is just over 40 km and north - south stretch about 20 km), one of the most efficient and reliable electrical grids, sophisticated IT sector, ambitions to remain at the forefront of maintaining its already world - class transportation infrastructure, and a top - down policy environment which will ensure rapid deployment of a complicated and ambitious system once there is buy - in from the top.

A new study by the USDA's Forest Service tells us what all good treehuggers already knew; trees are good for you, especially if you live in a urban area.

This also has a knock - on effect: As food security declines and poverty increases, these people will end up migrating to urban areas in search of work — further stressing areas already trying to adapt to changing climate and building enough infrastructure to accommodate these newcomers.

Fuelwood is not a suitable energy source in all locations, such as densely - populated urban areas, because its air emissions tend to be higher than other options, and the air is already burdened with pollution from industry and transportation.

A mix of urban and rural locations have been carefully chosen, taking into account the size and needs of the Aboriginal community and the potential to link with other services already in the area.

There are already a number of examples or SRAs in urban areas.

Jeffrey Otteau: We've been seeing a shift from the outer - to the inner - ring suburbs and urban areas at least since 2005, so higher gas prices are just a layering on top of a shift that was already developing because of demographics.

There is also a shift toward more urban and dense areas, especially in places where the formula already exists.

Already 3 billion people, or about half the global population, live in urban areas, so the shift will create an enormous need for new housing and infrastructure.