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Urban in sentence

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So, close to 200,000 people a day migrate from the rural to the urban areas.
The issue is not urban poverty.
And I've spoken with hundreds of urban planners, development specialists, architects and civic activists, and a number of recurring principles keep coming out.
And urban governance plays a key role.
In 1971, Singapore set a 50-year urban strategy and renews it every five years.
Cities need to know when not to build, so as not to reproduce urban sprawl and slums of downward accountability.
The urban renaissance is only going to be enabled when cities start borrowing from one another.
Just take a look at the Global Parliament of Mayors, set up by the late Ben Barber, who was driving an urban rights movement.
Because so much of that book was a celebration of the power and creative potential of density, of largely urban density, of connecting people and putting them together in one place, and putting them on sidewalks together and having them share ideas and share physical space together.
And it was a beautiful urban day, and the incredible thing about it was that the city was working.
I must have caught him on a good day, though, because when I told him what we were doing and how we started our nonprofit urban beekeeping laboratory, he said, "That's great!
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.
Painted with squirrel-hair brushes on vellum or parchment by monks, nuns, and urban craftspeople, these bizarre images populate the margins of the most prized books from the Middle Ages.
Now, hip-hop song references are a really good tool for teaching content to students from hip-hop culture or urban communities.
By some measures, it's the poorest urban postal code in Canada.
We have a challenge, because the urban population is growing in this century from two billion to six billion in a very short amount of time.
In many ways, the novel follows a common narrative thread where a promising youth is seduced and corrupted by the dangers of urban life.
She prepared me for this world with lessons in black history, in martial arts, in urban farming, and then she sent me in the seventh grade to the private Sidwell Friends School, where US presidents send their daughters, and where she sent me looking like this.
And by gently wiggling the blocks, we can actually create curves or any organic form, adapting to any urban context.
So imagine where a traditional urban master plan, you typically draw the street grid where the cars can drive and the building plots where you can put some buildings.
This master plan, we sat down with a handful of scientists and basically started with all of the renewable, available natural resources, and then we started channeling the flow of resources through this kind of human-made ecosystem or this kind of urban metabolism.
I spend a lot of time in urban areas looking for design, and studying design in the public sector.
Down the road, there was another building, a nice visual structure: horizontal, vertical elements, little decorative lines going across, these magenta squiggles, the workmen being reduced to decorative elements, just a nice, kind of, breakup of the urban place.
And as I look at it, I sort of say, you know, the publications that report on problems in the urban area also contribute to it, and it's just my call to say to all of us, public policy won't change this at all; private industry has to work to take things like this seriously.
A lot of urban areas have been converted into parking lots in a sort of indiscriminate use.
But they're real examples in urbanization and the change that's occurred in the last number of years, and the heightened sensitivity to the importance of our urban environments as cultural centers.
But I think people have recognized the sanctity of our urban areas.
The U.S. is actually becoming a bit of a leader in kind of enlightened urban planning and renewal, and I want to single out a place like Chicago, where I look at some guy like Mayor Daley as a bit of a design hero for being able to work through the political processes and all that to improve an area.
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