Sentences with phrase «urbanizing nations»
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.
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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.
«In our colonial and pioneer days, most people raised their own food, but as our nation has become industrialized and urbanized, we find that now only 7 per cent of our population produces the food for our entire nation, and our consumers generally buy their food in stores.
Today, only 65 years later, all industrial nations are highly urbanized.»
About 15 million of the national human population of 23 million people live in the intensely urbanized Taipei area, at the extreme north of the island nation, where most of the dogs and cats are pets, or are descended from lost or abandoned pets, in an environment affording some suitable habitat for feral cats, but little or none for street dogs.
The United Nations Food Gardens initiative was developed from the premise that community food gardens can serve as an excellent source of local produce while also empowering communities to grow food in an increasingly urbanizing world.
The United Nations projects India's population to continue to become more urbanized; about 45 % of the Indian population will live in urban areas by 2040, an increase of nearly 12 percentage points from 2015.
During the 1990s, about 3 million minority - headed households moved to urbanized or inner - ring suburbs, reports the JCHS's «The State of the Nation's Housing: 2003.»
The nation is becoming increasingly urbanized.