Sentences with phrase «urban fringe»

All of which has placed incredible development pressures on rural - urban fringe communities.

City schools also were twice as likely to report serious violent crime compared with rural and schools in towns; however, there was not much difference in the amount of serious crimes in schools located in urban fringe areas, according to the NCES Annual Report on School Safety — 1998.

It examines the Central Business District, Industrial zones and change and the Rural Urban Fringe.

Emerald Elementary School (Emerald) is one of a handful of elementary schools in a Midwest urban fringe district of approximately 6,000 students.

Upstairs is dedicated to Leo Xu Projects» roster, which steers the show to an apocalyptic urban fringe.

Painting urban fringes, his parklands and skylines initially seem familiar...

In a second stage, those locations which were classified as urban fringe, and those which were formerly urban but are no longer (e.g. where a station has moved out of a town), were tested for minimum temperature trends which were anomalously large relative to non-urban sites in the region.

Blecha said it is likely that prey such as mule deer are safer in sprawling subdivisions and exurbias, given that mountain lions, coyotes, and human hunters usually avoid these urban fringes.

Using Census Bureau classifications, we group students into three categories according to the location of the school they attended in 3rd grade: 1) a large or midsize city, 2) suburbia (specifically, the urban fringe of a large or midsize city), and 3) towns and rural areas.

The G - Class is not horrible transportation to the office or a B&B past the urban fringe, nor even bad.

Presented through all of MUMA's recently designed galleries, the inaugural exhibition sees artists explore performative, media and event cultures, and the post-industrial architecture of the urban fringe, whilst others work with sound, light, sculpture, film, and painting in its diverse and expanded forms, offering a multi-sensory register of art and everyday life, from complex cultural perspectives.

These are not in the picturesque city - centre hutongs mentioned above, but rather in the so - called «rural - urban fringe» areas where migrants find cheap housing and business premises on the outskirts of Beijing.

A place where the old world of the urban fringe with its dust, dirt, and violent roughness exists alongside the new world of dense high rise pillars, shiny glass buildings, and well - designed areas for entertainment and consumption.

Katherine H. Brown and Anne Carter, Urban Agriculture and Community Food Security in the United States: Farming from the City Center to the Urban Fringe (Venice, CA: Community Food Security Coalition, October 2003), p. 10; U.N. Population Division, World Urbanization Prospects, op.

Initially, locations were classified as clearly urban (that is, within the built - up part of a town with a population of 10,000 or greater), urban fringe (near the boundary of such a town, or within the town but in a non-built-up area, such as a park or airport grounds), or clearly non-urban.

«There's so much land out here where the biological resources have been compromised,» such as old agricultural land and areas on the urban fringe, said LaRue.

Using a propensity score approach that addresses bias from non-random selection of individuals into neighborhoods, logistic regression models were used to estimate the relative odds of having a DSM - IV emotional disorder (any past - year anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder or dysthymia) comparing similar adolescents living in disadvantaged versus non-disadvantaged neighborhoods in urban center, urban fringe, and non-urban areas.