Sentences with phrase «urban settlements»

Many of the fastest growing cities in the world are relatively small urban settlements.

Why are the health prospects for residents in informal urban settlements so poor, and what future issues will contribute to making these better or worse?

«Our houses in urban settlement even depresses me more: most of them have passed their age of usefulness.

Garden cities are new urban settlements built in the countryside, with extensive green areas between the rows of houses.

It establishes the full scale and sprawling suburban nature of Angkor, where the largest urban settlement of the preindustrial world began clattering to life in the ninth century.

The researchers say the time gap between the river shifting course and the Indus Civilisation settlements appearing rules out the existence of a Himalayan - fed river that nourished Indus Civilisation urban settlements along the river channel.

Inscriptions referring to the divinity of the emperor (often inscribed on statue bases and altars) were also significant in shaping public opinion; they were prominent, numerous and widely distributed throughout the empire and its cities, with thirteen such inscriptions to Augustus alone in the main market of Roman Athens, and at least one to the same emperor in virtually every significant urban settlement in the eastern empire.

While scholars debate the relationship between the Oxus culture and other early urban settlements, there is no dispute about the importance of the Kopet - Dag as a natural highway for nomads, traders, and armies between the Central Asian steppes and the Iranian highlands.

(High - density urban settlements are commonly located on coastlines for convenient access to international trade.)

Together with the narrow, winding street pattern, large mansions facing the seafront and open spaces these buildings form an exceptional urban settlement reflecting the longstanding trading activity between the African and Asian seaboards.

Besides that, there are urban settlements too, which range from isolated farmhouses to crowded towns.

A fundamental part of the artist's practice is influenced by the collaborative building process undertaken by dwellers of improvised urban settlements around the world — favelas, barrios, slums, or shanti towns — who rely on recycled and scavenged materials to ingeniously, but often precariously, respond to their rapidly changing living situations.

Allié's work focuses on the concept of shared public domain - specifically the streets of bustling urban settlements - and the effect they have on the people who occupy them and the objects with which they interact on a constant basis.

Recognizing the importance of smaller cities and towns, this latest revision expands the number of cities and provides, for the first time, population estimates and projections for all of the world's urban settlements with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2014.

Several cities already promote urban agriculture in floodplains, develop rooftop gardens in dense urban settlements, include urban forestry in new housing schemes and preserve peri-urban greenbelts for local food production.

Cities and urban settlements play a key role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the commitments of the Paris Agreement.

This has led to pervasive environmental problems and health risks, especially for communities living adjacent to open waste dumps and for poor urban settlements without organized waste management systems.

The integration of means of transportation, the sustainable mobility options in our cities and new urban settlement processes are essential for the new models of production and lifestyles in the «low carbon era.»

About 74 % of Europe's population lives in cities, and urban settlements account for 60 - 80 % of carbon emissions — so it makes sense to plan at an urban level.

Urban Settlement Spatial Analysis in Permanent Preservation Area of M'boicy Watershed River, Foz do Iguaçu City in Brazil

A new study, led by researchers from Imperial College London and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, has now provided evidence that a major Himalayan river did not flow at the same time as the development of Indus Civilisation urban settlements.

As a Research Fellow for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Etienne Turpin's research considers the consequences of climate change on urban settlements and develops potential design responses.

Sustainable urbanization is key to successful development The report notes that a successful urban planning agenda will require that attention be given to urban settlements of all sizes.

In 2016, approximately 55 % of the world's population lived in urban settlements, and this percentage is expected to increase to 60 % by 2030, according to the UN.

«We have renewed our urban settlements to attract investors.

In India, particularly in urban settlements, the phone can be seen as an indicator of the uncertainty and fluidity of the modern job market.

It's not Rio de Janeiro or even ancient Athens but anthropologists uncover evidence of urban settlements

After controlling for any shared ancestry between the groups, they indeed found that the protective gene was significantly more common in cultures with a long history of urban settlement.

A road route curves along the eastern coast, around the national park, connecting all of the urban settlements from Horseshoe Bay in the north to Picnic Bay in the south.

The villas lies in the urban settlement of Cap d'Artruix only 600 m from bars and restaurants The closest beach is to be found in the small town of Cala»n Bosch 2 km away.

Chávez Ravine was an urban settlement largely inhabited by descendants of Mexican immigrants.

In particular, the PB framework is based on the fact — and I emphasise the word «fact» — that the relatively stable Holocene state of the Earth System (the past approximately 11,700 years) is the only state of the System that has allowed the development of agriculture, urban settlements and complex human societies.

A NASA Earth Observatory image acquired from a Landsat satellite in 1975, when Istanbul's population was around 2.5 million, shows a relatively small area of urban settlement (depicted in gray) surrounded by broad swathes of red (representing «plant - covered land»).