Sentences with phrase «urban infrastructure lacks»

A city without residents — an unfinished plan, a paradoxical place where the realization of a modern dream society in terms of urban infrastructure lacks only the inhabitants to live their fulfilled dream life.

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A host of engineers and urban planners have long warned this trait is sorely lacking in America's brittle infrastructure.

The study, supported by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NSF), found that most of the coastal communities do not have an overarching strategy for building urban disaster resilience and lack coordination between multiple urban systems, including land use activities, natural environments and public infrastructure investments, particularly in Texas.

Poverty, crime, lack of support, and an outdated and deteriorating infrastructure are among the dilemmas urban schools share with their host cities.

The improvement ensures that the freshened Titan can be used with peace of mind in urban areas that lack a urea supply infrastructure.

And as the post points out, some are pure policy questions where the engineering has already been done (urban infrastructure, clean water) but the funding and political support are simply lacking.

Yu Gao, the China director for Landesa, a group working on land tenure issues, focused on the lack of what he called «social infrastructure» in China — mechanisms to protect the rights of those on the move in the country's great urban migration.

Problems include a lack of provision for infrastructure and urban services such as health and education, and a lack of institutional and investment capacity.

Other dimensions of vulnerability include general regional vulnerabilities to impacts (e.g., in polar regions), lack of economic diversification and fragile urban infrastructures.

While the 100RC programme identifies 11 shocks, from a nuclear incident to civil unrest, the one that stands out for Evangelinos in terms of a vibrant downtown is the possibility of «financial and / or economic crisis», while possible stresses (from a list of 37) could include aging infrastructure, crime, homelessness, lack of affordable housing, traffic congestion, uncontrolled urban development and an undiversified economy.