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Urban in sentence

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It's the dependence on farm subsidies and under-performing schools and higher poverty rates in rural areas than in urban.
With the majority of refugees living in urban areas, there is a strong need for a paradigm shift and new thinking.
In addition to the poverty problem we were confronted with as the local urban poor, we were facing challenges due to our refugee status, such as a language barrier.
Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system.
Part of my work now is really laying the groundwork to integrate urban ag and rural food systems to hasten the demise of the 3,000-mile salad by creating a national brand of urban-grown produce in every city, that uses regional growing power and augments it with indoor growing facilities, owned and operated by small growers, where now there are only consumers.
And it's really a conflux of urban population rising, biodiversity plummeting and also, of course, sea levels rising and climate changing.
So the oyster was the basis for a manifesto-like urban design project that I did about the New York Harbor called "oyster-tecture."
You can see in the diagram how it grows over time from an infrastructural space into a new public urban space.
To conclude, this is just one cross-section of one piece of city, but my dream is, my hope is, that when you all go back to your own cities that we can start to work together and collaborate on remaking and reforming a new urban landscape towards a more sustainable, a more livable and a more delicious future.
Stop focusing on urban marathons, which, if you do four hours, you suck, and if you do 3:59:59, you're awesome, because you qualified for another race.
And we have to understand these main questions: How do people move through these new urban spaces?
It started out like this: it's just a four-foot by five-foot plywood board in an inner-city urban school, 1978.
It's a sort of urban myth, that Marx tried to dedicate "Kapital" to Darwin.
And these vaccinators, these volunteers, they have got to dive headlong into some of the toughest, densest urban slums in the world.
Now, there's the more urban middle-class pious Muslims who, again, look at their tradition and see that there are some problems in the tradition, and understand that they need to be changed and questioned and reformed.
And this is something that we should really work on, which is Africa, which is just a few trickles, basically in South Africa and a few other urban cities.
We will be an overwhelmingly urban species.
Some places are doing this with new eco districts, developing whole new sustainable neighborhoods, which is nice work if you can get it, but most of the time, what we're talking about is, in fact, reweaving the urban fabric that we already have.
Do they, perhaps, include green infrastructure, so that we can take runoff and water that's going out of our houses and clean it and filter it and grow urban street trees?
You know, one of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural.
And we're not going to cure the problems of the urban by dragging the country into the city, which is what a lot of us are trying to do all the time.
And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point is an economic tipping point.
They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
All people who grew up in any black urban community would know that music.
In urban areas, college graduates find the starting salary is about 400 U.S. dollars a month, while the average rent is above $500.
They find themselves sort of sandwiched between the urban areas and the rural areas.
It's where residents are experimenting with renewable energy and urban farming and offering their skills and discoveries to others, illustrating we don't necessarily have to beg the government to provide solutions.
This includes arson, urban sprawl, acid rain, not to mention terrorism and wars.
Many will turn to drug abuse and prostitution, and that will inevitably lower property values in urban neighborhoods.
As of 2007, we went from being a primarily rural planet to being a primarily urban one, and that has implications for how we're going to feed these people, how we're going to get the food to the people in the cities.
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