Urban in sentence

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And the urban planner in London goes, "What do you mean, who's in charge of London's — I mean, no one is in charge."

Now in an urban environment, that's extraordinarily difficult.

In America, before the motor vehicle, transportation depended entirely on the urban horse, which dropped, without restraint, 25 to 50 pounds of manure on the streets every day together with a gallon of urine.

We went from 25 percent urban to 75 percent by the early postwar years.

Second, I told Emma that the urban tribe is overrated.

Of course, remoteness in its normal sense, which means that as you go further and further away from an urban center, you get to remoter areas.

I had an office in those days which bordered a slum, an urban slum, so there was a dividing wall between our office and the urban slum.

One big difference in the villages, as opposed to the urban slums: there were more girls than boys who came to the kiosk.

In the urban slums, the girls tend to stay away.

I also worked with many different types of wood, such as maple, yew and mulberry, and did many shooting experiments in the wooded area near the urban expressway that I mentioned before.

More than three out of four people live in urban institutions, urban places, in cities today.

I say we are an urban animal.

We are an urban species, at home in our cities.

This is important because we live in an urban age.

So I'm a city planner, an urban designer, former arts advocate, trained in architecture and art history, and I want to talk to you today not about design but about America and how America can be more economically resilient, how America can be healthier, and how America can be more environmentally sustainable.

While most other cities were growing an undifferentiated spare tire of sprawl, they instituted an urban growth boundary.

I believe that this American healthcare crisis that we've all heard about is an urban design crisis, and that the design of our cities lies at the cure.

American pollution does not come from factories anymore, it comes from tailpipes, and the amount that people are driving in your city, your urban VMT, is a good prediction of the asthma problems in your city.

Well, it matters because most people around the world are gravitating to urban areas globally.

And how we design those urban areas could well determine whether we thrive or not as a species.

But we also have to acknowledge that all of these well-intentioned rules, they had the tremendous unintended consequence of making illegal the ways in which we used to build cities. Similarly illegal: at the end of the 19th century, right after the elevator was invented, we built these charming urban buildings, these lovely buildings, all over the world, from Italy to India.

And then under those panels we thought about the roof like a new public space with gathering areas and bars that would create this urban oasis.

And his story repeats itself in urban centers around the world.

It is the story of the disenfranchised, unemployed urban youth who sparks riots in Johannesburg, sparks riots in London, who reaches out for something other than waithood.

Connect young people with the resources they need, provide them the support they need to go from ideation to creation, and you will create catalysts for urban growth.

I come to this work as an architect and an urban planner, and I've spent my career working in other contested cities, like Chicago, my hometown; Harlem, which is my current home; Washington, D.C.; and Newark, New Jersey.

All of these cities, to me, still had a number of unresolved issues related to urban justice, issues of equity, inclusion and access.

Now there's been a lot of speculation since 2010 about what to do with the vacant property, and a lot of that speculation has been around community gardening, or what we call urban agriculture.

It wasn't going to be our traditional residential neighborhoods as we had before, and urban agriculture, while a very productive and successful intervention happening in Detroit, was not the only answer, that what we had to do is look at these areas where we had significant vacancy but still had a significant number of population of what could be new, productive, innovative, and entrepreneurial uses that could stabilize those communities, where still nearly 300,000 residents lived.

The urban explosion of the last years of economic boom also produced dramatic marginalization, resulting in the explosion of slums in many parts of the world.

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