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Urban in sentence

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During the 19th century, immigrants and urban political machines helped fuel this culture of voting.
All across this country right now, immigrants, young people, veterans, people of all different backgrounds are coming together to create this kind of passionate, joyful activity around elections, in red and blue states, in urban and rural communities, people of every political background.
But in more established urban centers, significant network expansions are almost impossible: habitat is just too dense, real estate, too expensive and public finances, too fragile.
So in other words, while our vascular system uses the three dimensions inside us, our urban transportation is mostly two-dimensional.
The fact that a company like Airbus is now seriously working on flying urban taxis is telling us something.
It is estimated that up to 30 percent of urban traffic is generated by drivers looking for parking.
You're comfortably sitting in a fast and smooth urban train, along with 1,200 passengers.
The problem with urban trains is that sometimes you have to stop five, ten, fifteen times before your final destination.
Now ... as if walking in a city buzzing with drones, flying taxis, modular buses and suspended magnetic pods was not exotic enough, I think there is another force in action that will make urban traffic mesmerizing.
Video: Crows have become highly skilled at making a living in these new urban environments.
So these students come to a classroom, they're joined by a community teacher and they're connected to urban schools online.
I went back to grad school in architecture and city planning, developed this interest in infrastructure, and in 1999 came up with an idea for my thesis project: the adaptation of an obsolete loop of old railroad circling downtown as a new infrastructure for urban revitalization.
These changes were the foundations for urban sprawl.
Are we stuck with rampant urban displacement, with environmental degradation?
Similar stories are playing out everywhere, where people are reclaiming not only old railroads, but also degraded urban waterways and obsolete roadways, reinventing all of the infrastructure in their lives.
And besides, skylines are highly specific urban habitats with their own insects, plants and animals, and even their own weather.
But today, urban habitats are out of balance.
It's a residential high-rise in Chicago aimed at young urban professionals and empty nesters, many of them new to the city.
We can reduce the stress and the polarization in our urban habitats.
I work in urban design, and not surprisingly, most cities are designed by adults.
Boulder's senior urban planners stepped over blocks and stuffed animals to explore preschool students' full-size classroom recreation of the Civic Area.
you need the bones of an urban model.
But now, in the name of urban renewal and progress, these communities are pushed out, in service of bringing them into the 21st century.
They offer dedicated green space in both urban and rural areas.
One study of the 171 largest cities in the United States concluded that there is not even one city where whites live under equal conditions to blacks, and that the worst urban contexts in which whites reside is considerably better than the average context of black communities.
The deepest mines are much deeper than the tallest buildings are tall, so you can alleviate any arbitrary level of urban congestion with a 3D tunnel network.
But these are solutions that are relevant in urban and rural settings, high and low-income countries, and they have cascading benefits.
In the urban rush for a new, more embellished survival, things started to look a little different.
It's an urban mosquito, and it's the female that does the dirty work.
But worse still, assemblies of glass towers like this one in Moscow suggest a disdain for the civic and communal aspects of urban living.
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