Sentences with phrase «urban population centers»

Yes, the EPA intends to focus compliance monitoring and enforcement efforts on certain geographic areas, especially large urban population centers where lead - based paint hazards are more likely to be present.

Conventional wisdom In many ways, Coral Ridge is nothing more than a conventional mall: an enclosed center with anchors, specialty retailers and amenities, surrounded by parking, and located close to urban population centers along major highway and surface street access routes.

The Early Childhood Investment Zones touch every region of New Mexico, and range from frontier to urban population centers covering 11 counties and 35 school districts.

(Solar thermal plants work in deserts, but not near most of the world's biggest urban population centers.)

Not exact matches

Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

The urban population boom may finally be normalizing, but people are still being attracted to city centers more often than in the years leading up to the Great Recession.

And the Sears store was a way to take that innovation to fast growing centers of urban populations.

Each urban center has a population between 25,000 and 100,000.

But despite the growth in number of cities and city populations, Hinman warns that many of these urban centers may not be ready to accommodate a burgeoning population.

Real estate investors liked North Carolina's biggest metropolis for its strong job and population growth, as well as its developed urban center.

Similarly, the growth in the Aboriginal population is much faster than the growth in the general population and prices experienced on reserves are significantly higher than in urban centers.

In many of the underdeveloped countries, a big part of the population lives outside of urban centers and has no easy access to a Banking infrastructure.

China has two main goals: 1) to ensure strong domestic economic growth to provide enough jobs for its 1.2 billion population which continuously migrates to urban centers from the countryside, and 2) to be taken seriously by the world.

From a small trading post in the 15th century to a metropolitan area with a population of over 14 million, this massive city dwarfs Thailand's other urban centers.

Two local - news companies have focused on the large millennial populations in urban centers.

Orphanages are located in urban centers; orphans and abandoned children in rural areas (who account for around 85 % of the total orphan population) do not have access to these state - run institutions.

Brindisi said the upstaters have broadened their focus to include transit — «something we all agree could use more funding» — and addressing the needs of immigrant / refugee populations that have popped up in certain urban centers.

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.

The findings underscore the way legal policies — such as the growth of the U.S. prison population from the 1980s — can have a ripple effect in communities, says Nancy La Vigne, director of the Justice Policy Center at the Washington, D.C. — based Urban Institute.

On the other hand, they say the city could grow even more resilient due to the ongoing efforts to reduce the urban heat island effect — for instance through programs to install reflective roofs and plant trees, as well as to protect vulnerable populations through heat warning systems and the availability of cooling centers.

The cohort used in the study was compiled with data that would reflect a true - to - life 10,000 person population among urban, non-monogomous men who have sex with men, who were defined by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) as «high - risk.»

China in particular stands out because of its sudden role as the world's factory, its enormous population, and the mass migration of that population to urban centers; 350 million people, equivalent to the entire U.S. population, will be moving to its cities over the next 10 years.

By mid-century, 80 percent of the world's population is expected to reside in urban centers.

The average carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, population - dense urban cities is about 50 percent below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to twice the average: a factor of four difference between lowest and highest locations.

This evidence suggests that local Indus populations were already well adapted to living in varied and variable environmental conditions before the development of urban centers.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

More than half the world population now lives in cities, many migrating to urban centers from rural hinterlands, a trend that shows no sign of abating.

This could be a contributing factor to why this underserved population isn't taking advantage of the many therapeutic benefits of yoga in the way that more urban centers are.

Townsville is Australias largest urban center north of the Sunshine Coast with the 2006 census recording the Townsville Statistical District population to be 143,328 people.

An estimated 70.5 % of Turkeys population lives in urban centers.

There is no official data stating the composition of the population by ethnic group in Konawe, but in general this immigrant ethnic groups living in urban areas or areas near the outskirts of the city government center in Unaaha.

«A lot of the charter schools are concentrated in urban neighborhoods and believe that a longer school year or school day is just necessary for the student population they serve,» said Peter Murphy, vice president of New York Charter Schools Resource Center.

Annie E. Casey Foundation staff and consultants worked with the Urban Institute, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, the National Center for School Engagement, and Metis Associates to examine early absenteeism patterns in nine, mostly urban, localities by grade and for particular populatUrban Institute, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, the National Center for School Engagement, and Metis Associates to examine early absenteeism patterns in nine, mostly urban, localities by grade and for particular populaturban, localities by grade and for particular populations.

Clustered around urban centers with larger populations and especially on the coasts (where more electric vehicles are sold), there are many chargers.

With more than 54 percent of the world's population now living in urban centers, the goal of Soofa and Visionect is to improve the quality of life for people by providing easily accessible civic information at the right time and in the right place.

In Mississippi, the population is less concentrated in urban centers than in other states, largely because of the influence of agriculture on the economy.

It's designed to help move populations from urban centers into less dense areas of the United States.

As a regional animal control facility, the Thomas J. O'Connor Animal Control and Adoption Center (TJO) serves an urban population of 250,000.

With a population of more than 13 million people, the urban center is a spectacular, shimmering neon - lit metropolis, with a raucous nightlife, delicious food and a vibrant art, theater and music scene.

The Institute's newest program aims to realize the potential of parks in urban areas to contribute to the livability of our cities and the sustainability of our planet by bringing park ideals and values directly to our urban centers, where the majority of the world's population now resides.

Caracol Mayan Temples is a Classic Period urban center that spread out over 55 square miles with an estimated population of 180,000 people.

Self - sufficient compared other cities in the region (the latter of which were hopelessly dependent on its urban population), it managed to last almost a full century longer than other centers in the area after the Mayan collapse.

After World War II, populations shifted from the city to the suburbs and newly built highways cut through thriving neighborhoods, leaving isolated pockets within major urban centers.

On Tower Level 5, Wong Ping creates a multimedia installation centered on a colorful, racy animated tale that explores the tension between an aging population and the relentless pace of a digital economy; in her paintings and sculptures, Duan Jianyu depicts a surreal, transitory place where the rural meets the urban; and Lin Yilin constructs a virtual - reality simulation featuring a professional basketball star, testing the potential for using technology to inhabit the experience of another.

Urban development, population explosion, environmental changes, socio - economic gaps, and the rising middle class in metropolitan centers in Africa redefine the structure of the city as it continuously evolves.

Sun's meticulously rendered subjects and environments are an examination into the phenomenon of isolation despite the increasing population in urban centers.

Urban stations are gradually contaminated over the decades as roads are paved, parking lots build, as energy use per capita rises, as populations increase in urban cenUrban stations are gradually contaminated over the decades as roads are paved, parking lots build, as energy use per capita rises, as populations increase in urban cenurban centers.

The possibility to take off and land without contravening the noise regulations set for small airfields, in urban areas and near population centers, will allow the use of airfields late at night, when noise regulations are the most stringent.

Similar to Alaska, Hawaii, with one large urban center in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, and the rest of the population spread among the other seven islands, experiences geographic and infrastructure challenges to traditional modes of legal services delivery.

In Mississippi, the population is less concentrated in urban centers than in other states, largely because of the influence of agriculture on the economy.