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The idea of Los Angeles as a wildlife preserve disrupts its image of glitzy urban sprawl.
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Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2024
In Los Angeles, where urban sprawl and diverse venues present unique security challenges, AI will play a central role in coordinating large-scale operations across multiple sites.
—Brian Gumbel, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Designed for 200,000 people, the population of its urban sprawl now exceeds 1 million.
—Ricardo Hernández, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024
The hubris of believing that people can control water with concrete will be increasingly exposed as more of those kinds of projects fail, unable to buffer the knock-on impacts from rapid population growth, urban sprawl and climate change.
—Erica Gies, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2018
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Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2024
In Los Angeles, where urban sprawl and diverse venues present unique security challenges, AI will play a central role in coordinating large-scale operations across multiple sites.
—Brian Gumbel, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Designed for 200,000 people, the population of its urban sprawl now exceeds 1 million.
—Ricardo Hernández, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024
The hubris of believing that people can control water with concrete will be increasingly exposed as more of those kinds of projects fail, unable to buffer the knock-on impacts from rapid population growth, urban sprawl and climate change.
—Erica Gies, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2018
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Climate Central estimates the first freeze is arriving later in 85% of U.S. cities, about 11 days later than in the 1970s on average.Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2024
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San Diego is an expensive city, but the magnitude can vary substantially from ZIP code to ZIP code.Andrew DePietro, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Fort Valley is a majority-Black town in a rural swing county, in a historically Republican state that the Democrats have targeted.Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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The sprawling estate sits on a whopping 550 acres in Santa Claus, a real-life town that celebrates Christmas year-round.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024
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In addition to getting to know the men in the program, Kiyan has also worked with his mom on a holiday program to help make Christmas possible for 400 inner city kids.Anna Halkidis, Parents, 16 Oct. 2024
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Living in the inner city in L.A., there’s smog, light pollution, sound pollution; we’re towered by these skyscrapers and all these street lights — our access to seeing the stars is blanketed.Allison Noelle Conner, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
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After voters passed a ballot initiative in 2022, municipalities in Michigan are required to hold at least nine days of early voting for each statewide and federal election, with early voting locations mandated to remain open for at least eight hours on those days.Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
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Check Local Building Codes: Many municipalities are updating building codes to account for new climate realities.Monica Sanders, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Our beautiful neighborhoods will become an asphalt jungle!Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
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But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
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From the stunning metropolis, guests hop aboard the final train, the Eastern & Oriental Express – Wild Malaysia, which travels deep into the neighboring Malaysian jungle before returning to Singapore.Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2024
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In the vast metropolis of Kolkata, for instance, state health officials reported in 2021 that the fertility rate was down to an amazing one birth per woman, less than half the replacement level and lower than in any major city in Germany or Italy.Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
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Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia.Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
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Lee Kuan Yew, the city’s first prime minister, launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967.CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
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Your beauty, music and STEM eras can align this weekend with a downtown Indianapolis Taylor Swift fan event that involves makeup and bracelet making.Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Oct. 2024
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Farah sits in a makeshift tent in downtown Beirut cradling her newborn daughter.UNICEF USA, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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