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Last night 40,000 people rented accommodation from a service that offers 250,000 rooms in 30,000 cities in 192 countries.

Districts all over the country are taking notice, along with mayors in cities like New York, Chicago and San Diego.

And the rain is spread out over more days than those cities.

As smaller cities copy the model of these "24-hour cities", more affordable versions of these places will be created.

Capital cities are full of tourists and are never friendly.

Cities that get more rainfall than Seattle include Huston, Memphis, Nashville, and pretty much every major city on the eastern coast, such as New York, Boston, and Miami.

In fact, Seattle ranks 44th among major US cities in average annual rainfall.

In other words, when it comes to cities—or anything else—it is hard to predict the future.

It could also get people out of cities in danger of being bombed.

Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports.

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areas.

More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.

That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walk ability and transit oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successfu

The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies.

There have been a lot of Utopian (乌托邦的) cities in history.

These stages will span sectors, take people to different cities, and provide a foundation for building a wide variety of skills.

Today I found out that Seattle doesn't really get that much rain compared with most US cities.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

Yet cities in sub-Saharan Africa are not getting richer the way cities in the rest of the world have.

Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life.

His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress

Smith touches on construction methods, the revolutionary invention of the automatic lift, the practicalities of living in the sky and the likelihood that, as cities become more crowded, apartment living will become the norm.

The population increase in cities reached a new peak in Asia and Africa

It aggravates the squalor of cities.

It has fewer violent crimes than big cities.

Many coastal cities will be covered with water.

How vulnerable the coastal cities are

Among global warming's most frightening threats is the prediction is that the polar ice-caps will melt, raising sea level so much that coastal cities from New York to Los Angles to Shanghai will be flooded.

If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley.

18-hour cities combine the best of 24-hour and 9-5 cities, which contributes to downtown revitalization.

Analyzing and comparing cities using the lens of this basic divide gives interesting context to how investment capital flows and housing prices have shifted.

Because of their smaller size, most keep hours that allow people to enjoy themselves, then have some quiet after midnight, as opposed to large major cities like New York, where the buzz of activity is ongoing.

But simply switching to electric can will not mean pollution-free cities.

Cerling's team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences.

For decades, many downtown cores in small to mid-sized cities were abandoned after work hours by workers who lived in the suburbs.

Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.

However, this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg as smart buildings and even cities increasingly become the norm as leaders and business owners begin to wake up to the massive savings that technology can deliver through connected sensors and new fo

In many of these cities such as Denver, a diverse and vigorous economy attracted to the urban core has offered stable employment for residents.

In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.

It's time to wake up to the fact that making smart buildings, cities and homes will dramatically improve our quality of life in the years ahead.

The biggest and most exciting challenge of this technology is how to creatively leverage this ever-growing amount of data to deliver cost savings, improvements and tangible benefits to both businesses and citizens of these smart cities.

The persistent haze over many of our cities is a reminder of the polluted air that we breathe, over 80% of the world's urban population is breathing air that fails to meet World Health Organisation guidelines.

The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food.

The same goes for numerous big cities around the world.

These 18-hour cities are beginning to make waves in real estate rankings and attract more real estate investment.

These 18-hour cities are rapidly on the rise and offer great opportunities for homeowner investment.

Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the US landscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.

Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers.

with the rise of a new concept in urban planning that aims to make life easier and more convenient, however, increasing popularity for urban areas that caused the real estate pushes, in major cities like San Francisco or New York, has inspired a type of f

You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities.

Although Dr Dominoni has only studied light pollution, other research concluded that robins living in noisy cities have started to sing at night to make themselves heard over loud noise.

Among the bag makers' arguments: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport.

Big cities generally have heavy traffic and expensive parking, but there you have a choice of taking public transport, which is cheaper than driving.

But gold was discovered there in 1897, and two years later, it was one of the largest cities in the west, with a population of 30, 000.

But however long it takes, the technology has the potential to change our transportation systems and our cities, for better or for worse, depending on how the transformation is regulated.

But not all cities develop slowly over a long period of time.

By painting buildings white, cities may slow down the warming process.

By rail: the nearest station is Cark-in-cartmel with trains to Carnforth, Lancaster and Preston for connections to major cities & airports.

Cities usually have a good reason for being where they are, like a nearby port or river.

Companies have been testing their vehicles in cities across the country.

Dawson did not have any of the natural conveniences of cities like London or Paris.

He added that he hopes people in other cities might try similar projects and post their own videos on the Internet.

Hilversum is a medium-sized city between the major cities of Amsterdam and utrecht in the Gooi area of north Holland, the netherlands.

However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace in eastern cities.

I also love the exciting life in big cities.

If the air you're breathing is clean—which it would be if you're away from the smog of cities—then the air is filled with life-giving, energizing oxygen.

In cities all over the world, people go to cafés to relax alone or with friends.

In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze that mirrors our fear of the dark.

It is cut off from big cities.

Of course, safety should be considered, and that's one area where small towns are better than big cities.

So many end up in tree branches or along highways that a growing number of cities do not allow them at checkouts.

Surely small towns and big cities both have some problems in terms of transport.

The bags are prohibited in some 90 cities in California, including Los Angeles.

The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.

The coming technological advancement presents a chance for cities and states to develop transportation systems designed to move more people, and more affordably.

The final thing I like about large cities is that you can meet different kinds of people.

The move, imitating a similar structure in far eastern cities such as Hong Kong, is designed to increase the number of people using long escalators at the busiest times.

The number of cities producing co beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9.

They have lowered their co-levels in forty cities.

This example should act as an inspiration for all cities.

This is how much temperatures would rise by 2100 even if nations live up to the initial Paris promises to reduce carbon emissions; this rise could still put coastal cities under water and drive over half of all species to extinction.

Today all three generations regard the move to a success, giving them a closer relationship than they would have had in separate cities.

What's particularly interesting is the attitude various cities have toward dubanchet's cause.

Among other weaknesses, the measures cities must employ when left to tackle dirty air on their own are politically contentious, and therefore vulnerable.

But it is really happiness that's linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities explain why firms there spend more on R and D?

Cooper and her colleagues argue that the success of the crown for Hull, where it brought in £220m of investment and an avalanche of arts, out not to be confined to cities.

The sensible place to build new houses, factories and offices is where people are, in cities and towns where infrastructure is in place.