Sentences with phrase «urban city dwellers»

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Maven is really three car - sharing services in one: a city - based service that rents GM vehicles by the hour through an app, another for urban apartment dwellers in Chicago and New York, and a peer - to - peer sharing service that started in Germany last year.

The close concentration of urban dwellers, combined with plummeting hardware costs and the overlapping layers of wireless data that accompany us — beamed from cell towers, pulsing from Wi - Fi hot spots, radiating from smartphones in our pockets — has made it easier than ever before to track, sort, manage and organize things in a city setting.

Tortuga specializes in travel backpacks, though it makes a few other products too, and was created based on a real - world experience its founders had during a 2009 backpacking trip around Europe, where they realized how painfully ineffective luggage was for city - dwellers and urban backpackers.

The city dweller who is without wealth is unable to escape the urban environment so as to enjoy a natural one.

Because public transportation, city sidewalks, taxis and traffic are common for urban dwellers, today Gugu Guru along with our team of Concierge experts selected our favorite On the Go picks for city babies.

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

Urban dwellers were city dwellers and were associated with high rise buildings in downtown Manhattan or the center of London.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

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.

But urban life may have also influenced human genes, making the descendants of ancient city dwellers more resistant to disease.

Improvements in air quality, microclimate and behavioural aspects of urban dwellers will be achieved in the selected cities assessed for future climate change scenarios and representative of different cultural and life styles in Europe.

But, it's not new to many urban dwellers that dating in big cities can be pretty frustrating.

The app is billed as a «new dating app for urban millennials» for single city - dwellers looking to connect with others based on location and music taste.

The fact is more and more city dwellers and urban living singles are also attracted to these types of country or farmer dating sites.

«This bold off - roader was conceived by Kia's California design studio and built for city dwellers seeking the ultimate urban escape,» Kia said in a statement.

It's easy to imagine the LF - SA's 136 inch (3,440 mm) length growing a bit, sitting as it does now 2.5 feet longer than a Smart car and 2 feet shorter than a Honda Fit, so there are potential versions for USA urban dwellers and city people in really cramped cities.

Full - size trucks still make up the majority of those sales, but some city dwellers may want a more urban - friendly pickup like the GMC Canyon or Toyota Tacoma.

Chevrolet refers to the Trax as an urban SUV, because it was designed specifically for the needs of city dwellers and commuters.

Although not as popular as compact and mid-size options, very small cars such as those that were once exclusive to the streets of Tokyo and London have gradually made their way over to the United States, where they have attracted the interest of city - dwellers who need occasional transportation that's easy to park in an urban landscape.

The petrol - powered Great Wall ute is better suited to city slickers and urban dwellers and the rugged diesel Mahindra is better suited as a farm hand.

Introduced for 2012, the Prius c (for «city») joined the Prius family as a smaller, less - expensive hybrid aimed at urban dwellers.

We are counting the days until this September 4 release, which «brilliantly depicts the modern urban zone — familiar to city dwellers everywhere — in a tragicomic novel as mercurial as the city itself.»

A Down - to - Earth Look at Growing Food in the City (2011) highlights the myriad, creative places where urban dwellers produce food.

For urban - dwellers, we compiled a list of the top cities across the country that are pet - friendly in a number of ways.

An excellent jacket for city dwellers, this 600 - fill down parka will cut down any freezing blasts that swarm down urban streets.

So how does a busy, urban city - dweller go about working quality education and training time with their pooch into their daily schedules?

This makes evolutionary sense, as the ancestors of these cats tend to be city dwellers, having spent time fending for themselves in urban areas.

as well as the number of free things there are to do and see around New York, especially during the summer when the sun comes out and the city's urban dwellers are itching to escape from their cubicles and cramped apartments and get outside as often possible.

Young city dwellers appreciate the property's 89 «studio» rooms, each of which evokes a high - ceilinged urban loft (and comes with cool extras like pebble - floored showers, iPod docking stations, and locally roasted coffee).

City Farmer was founded in 2009 as a gathering place to realize our mission; to engage, motivate and inspire urban dwellers to garden, eat better and teach their children to follow; and to create an identity that says it all in two words.

From governments and policy makers to community groups and individual urban dwellers, we are all part of making our city.

Via the gallery, «Devoid of figures, Wolfson's scenes are primarily focused on the architecture and design of his chosen urban locations, but most importantly on the leftover evidence of those city dwellers that have been and gone.

There is a clear epochal shift from the perspective of planning urban development and the integrated model of creative city and how it impacts on the lives and working conditions of city dwellers.

Wyeth's work was as rural as Warhol's was urban, his nudes as earthy as Warhol's girls (and boys) were dirty, but while the rural can easily look picturesque to the city dweller, and might appear to pander even unintentionally to wide appeal, urban art is by nature of its situation radical and intended for a strictly limited, edgier audience.

French neo-expressionists (Figuration Libre group), mostly city - dwellers, based their art on popular urban culture.

Such a turning away from the urban toward the rural could be circumstantially or existentially motivated, could be a mark of success or a final enactment of that fed - upness that periodically overcomes all city dwellers, and especially artists.

TreeHugger talks a lot about re-energizing urban areas and «city - fying» the world, so we can make better use of space, use less per capita resources and generally be more efficient planet - dwellers.

They are the hidden hearts of vibrant cities, they are a source of wellbeing to urban dwellers.

While city dwellers are always clamoring for more green space, urban parks may not always be as «green» as they seem.

Vertical farms, like other types of urban farming, aim to provide fresh produce to city dwellers.

Improvements in air quality, microclimate and behavioural aspects of urban dwellers will be achieved in the selected cities assessed for future climate change scenarios and representative of different cultural and life styles in Europe.

Aside from the problems urban heat islands can cause for city - dwellers, they also create an insidious problem for researchers who want to use weather station records to estimate global temperature trends.

Urban heat islands can cause serious problems for city dwellers during the summer, particularly in tropical and subtropical countries, e.g., India, since they increase the frequency and strength of heatwaves in the city.

The year 2030 is also expected to be a milestone for our cities: 150 percent more urban areas are expected to be built by that year to accommodate 1.35 billion more urban dwellers.

As much as city - dwellers might like the idea of buying vegetables grown on local rooftops or vacant lots, it's hard to make urban agriculture commercially viable.

Even as Frederick Law Olmsted's landscape designs continue to naturally ease urban flooding and improve air and water quality on our cities, just as he imagined they would, few urban dwellers see his works as anything more than ornamental wonders and respite from the harder urban world.

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment — using the same infrastructure human city - dwellers rely on to get from place to place.

On top of that, Bike Hangers could be designed as urban landmarks in their own right, creating another means of wayfinding for city dwellers.

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

For land - lacking urban dwellers, the under - utilized window sill may be prime real estate for growing a bit of one's own food — allowing even the most hemmed - in city resident to take some baby steps for self - sufficiency.