Sentences with phrase «urbanized city»

While Puerto Princesa is a highly urbanized city governed independently from the province, it provides a good mix of laid - back beach vibes and city comforts.
Although it is a highly urbanized city complete with modern structures, it has retained its idyllic ambiance and is committed to the protection of environment.
Its capital is the City of Puerto Princesa, but it is governed independently from the province as a highly urbanized city.
«Rapidly urbanizing cities in the frontier markets of Africa and Southeast Asia will benefit from favorable demographics, cheap labor and a rising middle class,» said LaSalle's Gordon.
Henri Rousseau's large paintings with plentiful foliage and vegetation fascinated Assiff, as Rousseau painted repeating flora and fauna while living in a rapidly urbanizing city and yet had never been to the jungle.
However, Buenos Aires (Argentina) is currently one of the most urbanized cities in the world.

Not exact matches

«Where Mayor Nenshi and I do agree is that both cities need to urbanize,» he says.
Higher, he notes, than an expensive American city like Seattle, and in a nation in which only 0.2 percent of the land is urbanized.
Our problem, he says, is not that we have become urbanized but that we have built our cities in such a way as to sacrifice our relation to nature for the sake of urban values; and the ironic result is that for most of their inhabitants our cities no longer provide even urban values.
He took Jefferson's question about the fate of democracy in urbanized populations and translated it into the language of the country's most avoided neighborhoods and caused it to be writ large in our industrialized cities.
Today, Latin America is more urbanized than any other part of the world — 85 percent of its population will live in cities by 2025 — placing the region at the forefront of the fight to reduce food waste in the urban environment.
Given that American society is one of the most urbanized in the world — 82 percent of Americans live in cities or in the suburbs (a number on the rise)-- the slump in urban population support should be a wake - up call for the GOP to immediately change direction.
In rapidly urbanizing parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, cities are still being built to accommodate motorists, even where they represent a fraction of the urban population.
Cities on the Rise «Urbanized societies, in which a majority of the people live crowded together in towns and cities, represent a new and fundamental step in man's social evolCities on the Rise «Urbanized societies, in which a majority of the people live crowded together in towns and cities, represent a new and fundamental step in man's social evolcities, represent a new and fundamental step in man's social evolution.
They also roost in urbanized areas such as New York City and Chicago where they form large, noisy flocks that can be heard for great distances.
By operating city infrastructure systems independently without coordination, many coastal cities across the U.S. have urbanized high hazard areas and built highways that continually stimulate land use activities without any land - use controls in place.
At the same time, the world will continue to urbanize, as one - time villagers abandon everything and move to the city for a better life.
As cities grow, researchers want to understand ecological systems as they exist in heavily urbanized areas.
Because the city is urbanized and frequently visited by foreigners, Beijing women are more open to dating them since they practically see them every day.
The City of Valenzuela is a highly - urbanized, first - class city and one of cities in the Philippines that make up Metro ManCity of Valenzuela is a highly - urbanized, first - class city and one of cities in the Philippines that make up Metro Mancity and one of cities in the Philippines that make up Metro Manila.
According to the Census categorizations, cities are defined as a «territory inside an urbanized area and inside a principal city» of an MSA and can be either large, midsize, or small.
The city still remained the largest contributor of tax revenue to the government coffers, but industry suffered, particularly as hundreds of thousands of urbanized Shanghai locals were sent to perform manual labor in rural areas throughout the Chinese countryside.
So using PPTP to compare New York City — or any other large, highly urbanized, expensive city — to a surburban or rural community is not very meaningful for shelter performaCity — or any other large, highly urbanized, expensive city — to a surburban or rural community is not very meaningful for shelter performacity — to a surburban or rural community is not very meaningful for shelter performance.
But with cities, almost all you see are industrial wastelands and urbanized jungles waiting to leech the beauty out of any landscape.
Australia is highly urbanized — similar to the U.S. — and the divide between the city and the bush becomes greater all the time.»
This city of Ponta Delgada includes specifically the civil parishes of Santa Clara, São José, São Sebastião and São Pedro, which is divided by the motorways with the urbanized contour of Fajã de Cima and Fajã de Baixo.
Grand Theft Auto has you exploring Liberty City, an urbanized landscape filled with wide streets and buildings, unpredictable weather and pedestrians, as well as a multitude of vehicles such as sports cars, tanks and taxi cabs that you can... «borrow.»
It is a portrayal of the trajectory of industrial capitalism, from the relics of the boom - to - bust cities in America, to the giant hi - rises in newly urbanizing China.
A: «And then, outside the glass wall of this utopian city which had arisen out of the ruin of the «final» war between the country and the city is a green wilderness in which primitive rebels live off the land, alive to their humanity, and seek to free the ultimately urbanized sister within.»
In considering what fast - urbanizing nations can do to make sure the expansion of cities comes with the fewest social and environmental regrets, it's important not to get too focused on megacities.
Biosphäre Bliesgau, Germany, is applying the concept of the «in - between - city» approach to link two very contrasting landscapes, densely populated and urbanized in the north in the town of St Ingbert, and sparsely populated and rural in the south.
For the moment, many cities on this fast - urbanizing planet are not being built in this way.
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm at the Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street September 20 US Premiere Urbanized Urbanized is a documentary about the design of cities, the third in director Gary Hustwit's design trilogy that includes Helvetica and Objectified.
Indeed, if we use NASA's satellite measurements of the average night - time city lights as an estimate of the amount of urbanization in the area, then we can see from Figure 31 that the station is right in the middle of a very heavily urbanized area.
In the highly urbanized region of the Middle East and North Africa, cities need to lead the transition towards a low carbon development.
Even though most (99 %) of the Earth's surface is not urbanized, some 27 % of the Monthly Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN - M) temperature stations are located in cities having populations of more than 50,000.
The challenge of producing enough food to feed the increasingly urbanized and growing population is one of the impetuses behind Green in the City, a rooftop farm launched in 2015 by Lavi Kushelevich of the hydroponics company LivinGreen and the Dizengoff Center's sustainability department.
Other notable PHA - detected adjustments are minimum (and more modest maximum) temperature shifts associated with a widespread move of stations from inner city rooftops to newly - constructed airports or wastewater treatment plants after 1940, as well as gradual corrections of urbanizing sites like Reno, Nevada.
As civilizations expand, they urbanize; when they fail, cities empty out and people return to subsistence agriculture or foraging.
Even if remote areas are spared, millions of acres of «near wilderness» on the outskirts of cities must remain intact to avoid a world that feels completely urbanized.
Some of the possible solutions the report proposes are familiar, like more efficient modes of transportation and the development of more compact cities that encourage public transportation, bicycling, and walking, especially in the rapidly urbanizing parts of the world.
Like Istanbul, Delhi is already urbanized and choked with traffic, with more than 900 new cars added to the city's roads each day.
Canada is one of the most urbanized countries in the world, so protecting and expanding our urban green space could be a key adaptation method for Canadian cities
But in an urbanizing world, where more than half of us live in cities, there is an inherent conflict between the automobile and the city.
The Rio + C40 summit which took place at the Copacabana Fort brought New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to a choreographed, less - than -24-hours visit which included a walk on an urbanized favela.
Here's why the study helps invigorate the case for more urbanized, sustainable living.First, the simple transit benefits of living in a city: (from the Environmental News Service)
It is predicted that the region will become increasingly urbanized as cities expand to absorb migrants in search of economic opportunities.
With one Indian city already installing composters at every police station, it seems composting could play an important role in a strategic approach to this rapidly urbanizing country's waste challenges.
I would also observe that this data is uncorrected for urban heat island effects (as cities urbanize they get hotter, and effect that is different than CO2 - cause global warming and is usually corrected for in global warming studies).
We believe that on rapidly urbanizing planet Earth, the key to sustainability is the development of ecological cities where people can live healthy lives with reduced environmental footprints.
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