Sentences with phrase «urban areas also»

Urban areas also offer higher pay and wage growth.

For sure locally, Hank, just as thermal power plants (and even hydro electric plant impoundments, for that matter) and built - up urban areas also have a significant climate effect on a local scale, but I took David's question to refer to the climate system as a whole.

Locating conventional food waste processing and composting facilities within urban areas also poses a number of permitting and community acceptance challenges.

Bear cubs in urban areas also had much higher mortality rates, mainly from collisions.

Urban areas also tend to have a lot of airborne dog poop, Fierer reported in 2011.

But attacking urban areas also carries big risks for the president.

Not exact matches

«We see millennial buyers in urban areas selling their cars,» said Stokes, adding that these buyers are also more open than ever to living in areas that aren't right next to a metro station.

Meanwhile, co-working spaces also were debuting across the country — and not just in the largest cities but in smaller urban areas and university towns with thriving populations of entrepreneurs and independent workers.

They also plan and direct policies and programs to promote industrial and commercial business development in urban and rural areas.

In his outline, Zimmer is also careful to ascribe this to major U.S. cities, and not the entire country, which includes areas where lack of urban density means that transportation has different patterns.

The definition of «rural» areas would also be expanded to include census blocks not defined as being part of an urban area.

I think one way to mitigate the pain for exurban areas in to put in place a land value tax as well, which would also tend to hit the urban hippies harder than the suburban middle class.

It's also in the south and would pull in talent from an area that's often overlooked by tech firms, said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, a civil rights organization.

With NDP support concentrated in urban areas of the province, the PCs also face a major challenge from Brian Jean «s Wildrose Party in rural Alberta.

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

Also offers Climate Ventures 2.0, a 12 - week program for entrepreneurs focused on innovations in climate adaptation and resilience, particularly impacting food, agriculture and water in urban areas.

This «city - state» was typically small in scale, with flexible but definite physical and geographic characteristics, It happened also to approximate the size of subsequent historic towns and urban neighborhoods — and for an obvious reason: it is an area that can be comfortably walked.

He also points out that property in urban areas comes at a premium, so it's often more cost - effective to redevelop existing buildings rather than create new ones.

She knew about me before I fell pregnant and her mother in law also knew about me, but thought I'll just entertain him in urban area as long as he don't marry me... It became a problem when I fall pregnant and now the man was committed to me and the baby, and he was not willing to abandon me just like that, so all hell broke lose..

We have also noticed that the area in general is much more kid - friendly than our previous urban environment (we're more suburban now, but close to urban areas).

Parents living in an urban area or a city dwellers can also choose this specific product for its features.

The wheels are an ideal size for normal strolling both in urban areas and also on rough or soft surfaces.

You also could create a standing - desk on a bottom shelf in your living room or kitchen (Jennifer Latch of Our Urban Playground offers some inspiration for transforming bottom shelves into playzones over at Rookie Moms, and you can find more kitchen - play area ideas in this hint).

The statistics also show that traffic on rural A roads (94.3 Bn vehicle miles) and minor roads outside of urban areas (45.7 Bn vehicle miles) rose to record highs, each up around 2.4 % on last year.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Dan Donovan, the House Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications, will chair a Congressional field hearing at the College of Staten Island titled Securing our Communities: Federal Support to High - Risk Urban Areas, Center for the Arts, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Building 1P.

«Up until this moment, it is not about the roofing materials alone which are unsuitable but also our buildings both in rural and urban areas have become a serious challenge.

It's also worth pointing out a deeper selfishness involved involved in the equation: Democratic states functionally subsidize Republican states, and as I found in my distant days in the Texas Legislature, (relatively) pro-tax urban areas typically subsidize low - tax rural counties (think of Michelle Bachmann's family farm subsidy payments as an example).

The HIV prevalence also ranged from 0.2 per cent in the Afram Plains (representing the rural areas) to 5.2 per cent in Obuasi (urban areas), the reports stated.

The student should also have demonstrated leadership and support of the ideals of the Urban League - to improve the quality of life of the economically, socially and educationally disadvantaged persons within the Broome County area.

Akshar believes ridesharing will not only benefit urban areas like the City of Binghamton but also rural areas as well.

Also road congestion pricing schemes have been implemented in a limited number of urban areas as a transportation demand management tool to try to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.

Also, crime rates are lower in rural areas than in urban city centers, and police response times are much slower in rural areas than in urban areas due to the lower population density which means long distances from a police station to the average crime scene.

Thus, not only do rural people have a greater democratic say in how their local governments are run, they also have a greater democratic say in how some of their key utilities and economic institutions are run, and are far more likely per capita to serve on the governing boards of such institutions, (even though, as in the case of governments, they have far less formal training and expertise in doing so than their urban counterparts running investor owned corporations that do the same things in urban areas).

Rennselaer County — a mix of urban, suburban and rural areas — also backed the amendment as well.

That spot went instead to Vicki Been, formerly the head of New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy — which has also been somewhat critical of mandatory inclusionary zoning in its studies of programs in the San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas.

«The fact that someone who grew up in the most urban area of the nation — Hell's Kitchen — could be welcomed into dairy barns in Delhi, and small businesses in Monticello, and mix with today's college students at New Paltz, while returning home at night to Orange County and being welcomed there also, is something that is a testament to the people of the 42nd Senate District,» said Bonacic.

The area also includes the Staten Island Ferry terminal and has a slightly more urban, sometimes even hip, feel than other parts of the decidedly suburban borough: A major waterfront revitalization project will include «MRKTPL,» touted as «Staten Island's first artisanal food hall» and set to open in 2017.

The influence of such socio - demographic factors on registration rates also renders under - registration a far bigger problem in disadvantaged inner - urban areas than in more affluent suburban and rural areas.

There is also # 7.5 million of funding for nature improvement areas (NIAs) which the government hopes will help transforming 12 rural and urban areas into bigger and connected sites for wildlife.

He said properties in other areas in the state capital were affected in a move meant to ensure compliance with the state urban development plan.He also assured that the exercise is a continuous one.

The survey, which also collected information on households» access to information and communication technology (ICT) and patterns of usage, found that about 89 per cent of Nigerians have access to a mobile phone, adding that access to the internet was more prevalent in urban areas than in rural areas — the most common uses being to send and receive emails.

Other achievements, according to the Organized Labour include, «payment of 13th Month salary as Christmas bonus to the state workers; elaborate infrastructural developments of both urban and rural areas of the state through unique fiscal management of the state's meager resources; transformation of the education, agriculture and health sectors, other areas of governance which have improved the quality of lives of the people of Enugu State; approval of payment of arrears of salaries of 731 former staff of some state parastatals and also, the regularization of 42 casual staff of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane Enugu, as permanent staff of the institution», among others.

The seat is also very polarised between the southern stone villa suburbs of Colinton, Currie and Balerno which are traditionally solid areas for the Conservatives, the more urban parts of the seat around Fountainbridge where Labour are resilient and the council estates of Wester Hailes and Sighthill which are solidly SNP.

Safe sites also work best in places where drug use is centralized, such as in specific urban neighborhoods rather than rural areas.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

«Location also mattered, as people living in rural areas had higher rates of diagnosed diabetes than those in urban areas, and the South had the highest rates of various regions in the United States,» Towne said.

Humans living in densely populated urban areas have a profound impact not only on their physical environment, but also on the health and fitness of native wildlife.

For example, projects with potential environmental benefits, or start - up companies housed in urban regeneration areas, may be given extra credits in the grant evaluation (these criteria also play a role in some U.K. grant applications).

The work also showed that although the poorest households are reliant on forests for their daily needs, they also look elsewhere — for example, traveling to urban areas — when drastic action is needed to feed themselves or urgently acquire income.