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The "fix," as it's called, may be much more difficult for the dominant society than, say, a $50 check or a church trip to paint some graffiti-covered houses, or a suburban family donating a box of clothes they don't even want anymore.
It travels on rails down a suburban road, and the cars travel underneath it.
You can call it suburban sprawl.
In the Global South, we're seeing desertification, whereas in the north, we're seeing suburban sprawl.
I think we need a network of suburban granges now.
If we look at this carefully, we find it's about 40 percent of the Earth's land surface is devoted to agriculture, and it's 60 times larger than all the areas we complain about, our suburban sprawl and our cities where we mostly live.
Agriculture uses 60 times more land than urban and suburban areas combined.
Installed into a protective wall surrounding the suburban home of Louis Novaes, who's the head of the Novaes family, are these turret holes, which were used for shooting and looking.
And this isn't some suburban iPhone-using teen phenomenon.
The description read: "The suburban streets of Minto become the stage for performances created by international artists in collaboration with the people of Minto."
And the worst idea we've ever had is suburban sprawl.
By suburban sprawl, I refer to the reorganization of the landscape and the creation of the landscape around the requirement of automobile use, and that the automobile that was once an instrument of freedom has become a gas-belching, time-wasting and life-threatening prosthetic device that many of us need just to, most Americans, in fact, need, just to live their daily lives.
So, we already know that people who live in transit-rich areas, live in apartment buildings, have a far lower carbon footprint than their suburban counterparts.
Now there's nothing remarkable in this until you learn that the center oat that it started from represents the city of Tokyo, and the surrounding oats are suburban railway stations.
Rural and suburban areas decay more slowly, but in largely unsurprising ways.
She watched the steel mills close and white flight to suburban developments.
And for me, personally, I was more comfortable in this Whitopia than say, in a Colorado, or an Idaho, or even a suburban Boston.
In my mind, she came from Lebanon, despite the patent fact that all her formative experience took place in suburban Accra.
As a child, I carried out fairly standard suburban rituals in Boston, with adjustments made for the rituals my mother brought from London and Lagos.
As cities grew during the industrial revolution, large suburban cemeteries replaced smaller urban churchyards.
So this nature, this kind of wild, untended part of our urban, peri-urban, suburban agricultural existence that flies under the radar, it's arguably more wild than a national park, because national parks are very carefully managed in the 21st century.
The Daniels family, for example, set up a DNA lab in the basement of their suburban Chicago home.
And we contrast that to the other way, an invention that happened after the Second World War, suburban sprawl, clearly not compact, clearly not diverse, and it's not walkable, because so few of the streets connect, that those streets that do connect become overburdened, and you wouldn't let your kid out on them.
So Sudhir, the suburban boy who had never really been in the inner city, dutifully took his clipboard and walked down to this housing project, gets to the first building.
And then you finally get squatter homes like this, which is built on the suburban model.
Data are now showing that urban beehives produce more honey than rural beehives and suburban beehives.
Urban beehives have a longer life span than rural and suburban beehives, and bees in the city are more biodiverse; there are more bee species in urban areas.
And what we found in a similar study to this one with North Carolina State is: there's no difference between disease in bees in urban, suburban and rural areas.
Suburban areas, what might you think?
Do they have less or more plants in suburban areas with lawns that look nice for people but they're terrible for pollinators?
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