Sentences with phrase «urban residents»

, or less - than - ideal locations of met station instruments (or, for that matter, less - than - ideal location of urban residents).

Urban residents in developed countries enjoy higher per capita income; in developing countries, they have greater access to health care and education.

Car insurance is not just for urban residents, however.

Not surprisingly, support for school choice programs is often twice as high among urban residents as it is among suburban ones.

They also did not consider the health benefits associated with urban residents who use transit and walk more, and therefore may get more exercise than their suburban counterparts.

With more and more urban residents opting to use a bike to commute to work, more and more cyclists are sharing the roads with motorists.

The adoptions indicate strong demand for cats among Canadian urban residents, a promising sign.

On average, males and urban residents show slightly better subjective well - being scores than their female and rural counterparts.

«Our study explains why cities suffer even more during extreme heat events and highlights the heat risks that urban residents face now and in the projected future.»

We see a profusion of community gardens where urban residents have daily interactions with soil, water and living things.

It's a challenge sustaining this kind of awareness, similar to that of Brazil engaging its southern urban residents with its vast Amazon rain forest.

Head to the Pritzker Stage in Millennium Park to see the bounty of Lurie Garden and its busy bees, along with other products from urban residents.

Central to Howard's vision of a self - sustaining city had been a «country belt» (or what designer Raymond Unwin first called a «green belt»), which carefully demarcated the edge of the city and allowed urban residents easy access to the countryside.

Equally, instead of encouraging low - tech traditional farming methods it may be preferable to focus on improving high - yield mechanised agriculture on the most fertile farmland to feed the new urban residents, whilst allowing mountainsides and other marginal lands to revert to forest.

Watch the animated screen a little longer, though, and you will learn something — about the city's largely untapped potential to collect solar energy, the amount of water from New York State's reservoirs wasted before it ever reaches urban residents, and the patterns in traffic and air quality that change hourly.

That means the average rural consumer ends up subsidizing power for urban residents by 240 to 510 rupees ($ 4 to $ 8) per year, according to a study in Karnataka state done by Rahul Tongia, a fellow at Brookings India.

Such linkages include the use of urban residents as labourers, use of typical urban resources (like organic waste as compost and urban wastewater for irrigation), direct links with urban consumers, direct impacts on urban ecology (positive and negative), being part of the urban food system, competing for land with other urban functions, being influenced by urban policies and plans, etc..

DAP aims to engage a wide audience, and bridge the gap between urban residents and the critical art establishment.»

Congo's urban residents constantly engage in inventing new social spaces to bypass or overcome breakdown, exclusion, poverty and violence.

Just like regular city biking, bike sharing makes urban residents fitter and drops our greenhouse gas emissions, says a study published in the British Medical Journal.

In June 2005, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that urban and peri-urban farms — those within or immediately adjacent to a city — supply food to some 700 million urban residents worldwide.

The estimates represent the average annual exposure level of the average urban resident to outdoor particulate matter.

Population migrations to urban area, as opposed to rural and suburban areas, because urban residents typically drive less.

Unfortunately, many urban residents of Washington, DC discover their homeowners or business insurance policy did not include enough fire protection until the blaze dies out and the damage is done.

• Women over men • Adults over teenagers • Rural residents over urban residents • Parents and those who are married over most single drivers

Growing Power's Farm - City Market Basket Program provides a weekly basket of fresh produce to low - income urban residents at a reduced cost.

Disharmonious spouses and harmonious siblings: conceptualising household formation among urban residents in Qwaqwa

Furthermore, in many developing countries price regulation in favor of providing cheap food for urban residents has been a devastating disincentive for food producers to increase their production.

«Our study explains why cities suffer even more during extreme heat events and highlights the heat risks that urban residents face now and in the projected future.»

Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry may be suitable strategies to address the triple challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the provision of basic services, including food; to a growing number of urban residents.

As industrialization began to spread, Moran's paintings of nature provided an accessible and direct experience and reflected a developing nostalgia among urban residents for the serenity of rural places.

Motivate's team of sponsorship, marketing, technology and creative experts works closely with brands to ensure each sponsorship brings the brand to life, aligns with the brand's values and goals and offers the brand unparalleled opportunity to connect with urban residents in an authentic and meaningful way.

One example is the Satoyama Initiative in Japan, where urban residents are working with rural people to revive underused rural lands through farm stays and volunteer work along with financial support.

Working with cities, Motivate has helped bring the benefits of bike share to more urban residents and visitors.

But while we certainly haven't solved every issue facing urban residents, there is an urgency and energy toward improving economic opportunity in cities that is lacking in the discussion about rural communities.

But a recent survey of 1,264 urban residents of 10 lower - tier cities conducted by the UBS Evidence Lab found these assumptions to be mostly false — and this demographic is too large and too important to future consumption growth in China to ignore.

So while this conservative gesture is unlikely to cost Cuomo any votes upstate or in the suburbs, where a tight cap on property taxes and other neoliberal policy innovations have won him tremendous favor in traditionally Republican territory, it fails — like the rest of his speech — to address the needs of the urban residents who make up the core of the national Democratic Party base.

But while the strategy is getting a warm welcome in other communities, back home in Albany concerns are building about the urban residents it leaves behind, and economic development officials maintain that its very success so far is a compelling reason for more state investment.

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

A 1 - mile walking distance for urban and rural residents or a 10 - minute drive for urban residents and 20 - minute drive for rural residents were considered reasonable availability to a WIC retailer.

Shops and other services are more concentrated in town and city neighbourhoods, and urban residents are much more likely to use public transport, share heating and housing, and have lower carbon footprints than their rural brethren.

These areas can foster criminal activity, and urban residents, especially those in low - income neighborhoods, often view vacant land as a threat to their health and safety.

Massive pumps in the southern end of the delta suck nearly 10 billion cubic meters of water per year from the delta and send it to farmers in the Central Valley and urban residents in Southern California.

Urban residents will soon be sharing their personal data — not with the usual social media giants, but with a scheme that aims to make their cities better places to live.

But in our modest sample, urban residents were more likely to be active daters than were suburbanites or rural residents.

The study also found that black, Hispanic, and low - income students, students whose parents attained low levels of education, and urban residents were most likely to make the change.