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Urban in sentence

1748 examples of Urban in a sentence

Tokyo, with 35 million people, is one of the largest, and some might say safest, urban metropolises in the world.
Now, maybe some of the surprise comes from the increasing separation in our world between the urban and the nonurban.
When we think about mapping cities, we tend to think about roads and streets and buildings, and the settlement narrative that led to their creation, or you might think about the bold vision of an urban designer, but there's other ways to think about mapping cities and how they got to be made.
If I were to show you these two urban scenes, and I were to ask you which one is more beautiful, which one would you say?
Players are shown pairs of urban scenes, and they're asked to choose which one is more beautiful, quiet and happy.
We are able to see which are the urban scenes that make people happy.
Around this time, flooded tunnels erode the streets above into urban rivers.
Cockroaches continue to thrive in their native tropical habitats, but without our heating systems, their urban cousins likely freeze and die out in just two winters.
It's urban planners like the students I teach at Pratt.
Third, it didn't get into many urban areas.
If it had gotten into a lot more urban areas, the case numbers would have been much larger.
Currently, the new narrative about Braddock, a poster child for Rust Belt revitalization, is a story of urban pioneers discovering a new frontier.
This is a rather recent example of urban clarity that I just love, mainly because I'm always late and I am always in a hurry.
So he was this skinny little urban guy and GQ magazine would send him down the Colorado River whitewater rafting to see if he would survive.
I think anybody who lives in an urban environment encounters graffiti all the time, and there's all different sorts of it.
Now whether you look at this and think, "Oh, that's a charming urban affectation," or you look at it and say, "That's illegal abuse of property," the one thing I think we can all agree on is that you cannot read it.
They can save a lot of lives in the interim, but to see the transformative opportunity to help someone like Steve get around, to really get to the end case in safety, to have the opportunity to change our cities and move parking out and get rid of these urban craters we call parking lots, it's the only way to go.
In the industrial revolution, we saw the creation of a new class of the urban proletariat.
Many of my smug urban liberal friends couldn't believe I would go on such a venture.
How often in this modern and urban and digital age do you actually get the chance to feel vulnerable, or consider that the world may not have been made for just us?
The headlines called them savages and barbarians, because the image of one man overpowering another, killing him with a knife to the throat, conforms to our idea of ancient, primitive practices, the polar opposite of our urban, civilized ways.
As cities grew during the industrial revolution, large suburban cemeteries replaced smaller urban churchyards.
It'll over-index Hispanic and urban.
"That's Beijing" is similar to "Time Out," a magazine that broadcasts what is happening in town during the week, and suddenly you see the building portrayed no longer as physical matter, but actually as an urban actor, as part of a series of personas that define the life of the city.
I'm an architect and urban designer, and for the past year and a half, I've been looking at approaches to death and dying and at how they've shaped our cities and the buildings within them.
Today ,more than half of all people in the world live in an urban area.
Most of this growth will occur in the urban areas of the world's poorest countries.
Some people think that we're going to solve the urban water problem by taking water from our rural neighbors.
I think that there's a better way to solve our urban water crisis and I think that's to open up four new local sources of water that I liken to faucets.
If we can make smart investments in these new sources of water in the coming years, we can solve our urban water problem and decrease the likelihood that we'll ever run across the effects of a catastrophic drought.
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