Sentences with phrase «with urban population»

With an urban population of 175,063, Braga is the seventh largest municipality in Portugal by population.
With an urban population of 95,265, Toowoomba is one of Australia largest provincial cities.
It is approximately 105 kilometers north - west of Melbourne, with an urban population of 88,437 people.
The National Population Commission (NPC) has put Nigeria's current population at 198 million people with urban population growing at an average annual growth rate...
Chicago is the largest metro area in the Midwest region by far, with an urban population of 2.7 million and a larger metro area population of over 10.4 million.
With urban populations exploding in megacities like Tokyo, Shanghai, and Delhi to well over 20 million people — it is important to understand how green spaces contribute to urban sustainability.
With urban populations expected to continue growing, cities» exposure to climate change will only get worse unless they break away from this GHG - emitting status quo.
Slum Communities Have «Built - In Resilience» With urban populations soaring around the world, of course efforts need to be made to ensure that people have safe, healthy living conditions.

Not exact matches

Over half the world's population is now aged under 30, with the same proportion living in an urban environment.
Meanwhile, co-working spaces also were debuting across the country — and not just in the largest cities but in smaller urban areas and university towns with thriving populations of entrepreneurs and independent workers.
Compared with the general population, more entrepreneurs have a college education, and proportionally more live in urban areas.
I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).
Our new white paper explores urban analytics for digital cities with an estimated more than 50 % of the worlds population now living in cities, many city leaders are turning to «Smart Cities» as the solution for their urbanization challenges.
«We expect countries with young populations, supportive regulations and fast mobile Internet speeds and planned migration to 5G to be best positioned,» says Graseck, adding that banks serving urban populations may have more latitude to consolidate branches than those focused on rural populations.
India is building railroad lines that crisscross the country to connect underused coal mines with growing urban populations, threatening to dump more resources into an already glutted market.
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.
First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.
Nor was anything like half the world's human population crowded into urban areas, with fewer chances for self - sustainability than people on the land have when times turn desperate.
In brief, the «Yes» came from two urban areas — Glasgow and its surrounds and Dundee: cities one and four by population (with Edinburgh and Aberdeen — cities two and three — voting «No»).
Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.
Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.
To some degree their origin and growth coincided with the increase in the urban population, a feature of the thirteenth century, but that association was not necessarily responsible for their beginning and their popularity The two largest of the mendicant orders were the Franciscans and the Dominicans.
In contrast with the monastic movements, initiated, with the exception of the Franciscans, largely by members of the aristocracy, their original leadership was chiefly in the newly emerging urban population.
Undiscouraged by the secession of the Free Church, it created new parishes to meet the needs of the growing urban population and recruited and trained a body of clergy to replace those who went with the Free Church.
Instead of one main paved street, there was a medley of surfaced streets, churches, buildings of all kinds, and all the noise of a busy urban and commercial environment to be found in a town with a population of 12,000.
With half of the global population now living in urban areas, he said there were opportunities for retailers and foodservice operators in this emerging field.
Downtown Miami continues to establish itself as a true global, urban destination, with a population of almost 90,000 residents — a 150 % increase since 2000 and still growing, consisting mostly of young professionals.
Richard Ballard and Steven Dring hatched the idea two years ago after lengthy debates about how to achieve a carbon - free economy and how to deal with the pressures of urban population growth.
Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.
Although affluent and urban women began having their babies in hospitals, however, medically underserved populations, such as rural women with limited access to hospitals and poor women who couldn't afford to give birth in the hospitals, continued to give birth at home.
A clinic - based breastfeeding peer counselor intervention in an urban, low - income population: interaction with breastfeeding attitude
Factors associated with perceived insufficient milk in a low - income urban population in Mexico
Today's developing world faces just as much pressure to feed a growing urban population with nutritious, often more costly food — with increasing potential for global impact.
The warped statistics will also mean the boundary changes review coming next year will redraw Britain's electoral map in favour of the Conservatives, enlarging rural constituencies and shrinking the total number of the urban ones with mobile populations that usually favour Labour.
And it CAN be a good for political organizing, if your targets are in populations with high cell - phone and / or Twitter usage (for instance, younger — and plugged - in — urban black and latino voters).
The region is a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working - class conurbations of Deeside.
He said he proved he could do this in Westchester, overcoming an enrollment deficit by running better than other Republicans in urban areas with concentrated minority populations (he got 25 percent of the vote in Mt. Vernon) and reaching out to Hispanics (he traveled to Puerto Rico for the annual «Somos El Futuro» conference).
Poloncarz added, «As I've said many times, our county is actually like a small state with urban, suburban and rural areas and a population that is equal to that of five states.
They tend to be seats with relatively small numbers of constituents in urban areas — that's right; they tend to be Labour seats, where the population has tended to shrink over the years as people sensibly flee areas represented by Labour MPs.
No modern nation with a significant urban population has attained prosperity without an industrial base capable of employing larger numbers of people and of manufacturing goods for domestic consumption and export.
And Erie County, as an urban county with a large population of poor people, faces an especially onerous burden.
«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.
While the disease remains a modest threat in rural, undeveloped areas, Green warns that our current stable relationship with plague in the developed world is only as good as our control of urban rodent populations.
«Almost the entire urban area in Washington State was within a 10 - minute drive to a WIC retailer, with 0.9 % of the low income, urban population outside that range.
Urban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissUrban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissurban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissions.
Ultimately, this has led to a division in the urban populationwith poor residents who can no longer afford to live in tsunami - safe locations on one side, and affluent residents on the other.
The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.
The increase in use of words like «choose,» «compete,» «private,» «autonomy» and «innovation» demonstrated a growing prevalence of individualistic values coinciding with sharp rises in urban population, household consumption and education levels.
Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».
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