Urban News
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By AFP
Yaound -
Maps, road signs, sat navs, Google maps -- it all makes travelling so easy. But how do you get around in a city with few street names, where buildings have no numbers?
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The move from living in rural settings to cities altered human exposure to certain microorganisms. In turn this residential shift appears to have impacted upon immune function.
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By AFP
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Green, tidy, with safe public areas and winding bicycle paths -- Steyn City is a vast "self-sufficient" development outside Johannesburg, that highlights growing controversy over South Africa's divided urban society.
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By AFP
Cairo -
Ahmed and Mohamed are both married with children but still live with their mother, unable to afford one of the hundreds of thousands of homes sitting empty in Egypt's capital.
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By AFP
Madrid -
Tourists love it, locals are proud of it, but beyond Madrid's tree-lined boulevards, pavement cafes and world-class museums lies a world of inequality that its new mayor vows to fight.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Thousands of people eke out an existence living in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, a giant city racing to overhaul itself ahead of next year's Olympics.
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London -
The challenges linked to the urban environment requires following multiple paths to find solutions. Academic voices are often overlooked, but the reality is countless scholars offer crucial insights that can clarify contemporary concerns.
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Philadelphia -
Urban farmer Ryan Kuck alleges that his garden was slowly poisoning his children in Philadelphia. Lead poisoning has often been a problem in United States and we'll explore the reasons behind this.
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As of today, Google has begun rolling out a new feature for Street View, the component of Google Earth and Google Maps that lets you view places as if you were actually there, that allows you to travel back in time and view the place in the past.
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By AFP
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After a lifetime of farming and mining in the hills of southwest China, Zhang Zongfu was thrust into subsidised housing closer to town, and into a monumental urbanisation drive aimed at boosting growth.Zhang likes his newly built digs, which are effect...
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Phoenix -
People living in densely populated urban areas affect the health and fitness of native wildlife. A new study draws a link between the degree of urbanization and the prevalence of two parasites in wild house finches.
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Nashville -
The sights and sounds of the urban city can differ greatly from those of a more rural environment. While one area may be more pastoral and peaceful, scenes found in any of environment can hold a certain beauty.
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New York -
Author Susie Moloney is a renowned author of horror fiction. Small-town Canadiana infuses every inch of her work, which has garnered praise from critics and the notice of major Hollywood players.
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Carletonville -
The South African Army demonstrated its urban warfare skills to lawmakers and the media with house-clearing, parachute insertion and helicopter fast-roping tactics among other things.
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Pontypridd -
Three men who viciously attacked a tame fox in Wales, causing it to die, were given suspended sentences when they appeared in court.
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There used to be a dirt bicycle trail in River Rouge Park. While there still is, it turns into a newly paved stone road.
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The New York City Department of Health has taken the first step towards allowing residents to keep bees within the city.
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A recent article published on Digital Journal described 2009 as "The Year of the Gun". This article mentions an increase in the deaths of police officers by firearms in 2009. While it is horrible, we cannot assume that this is due to changes in gun laws.
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The City of Charlottetown has no problem with backyard chickens, but are watching a flock of a dozen birds in Lewis Point Park.
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Hellmann's are best known for their mayonnaise but they are also sponsors of 94 garden plots almost all across Canada. The plots are for gardeners who wouldn't otherwise have an opportunity to plant vegetables.
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Urban kids who live near parks and playgrounds have been found to be less overweight than other urban kids.
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In what sounds like a science fair project on steroids, engineers at Stanford University plan to have an unmanned robot car ready to navigate urban traffic in less than a year.
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Country singer Keith Urban has filed a lawsuit against a painter of the same name, claiming that the lesser known Keith Urban's Web site infringes trademark and cyber-squatting laws.
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I have no clue how this guy did this i can't even make a loop
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For the first time in human history, the world's population is about to become mostly urban.
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Man's cities have a tremendous impact on the behavior of the birds as they are known to alter their singing styles according to the city that they live in. "The urban songs were shorter and sung faster than the forest songs"
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Its been 9 months sing the whippet show dog escaped her cage at the Kennedy Airport.
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No-audio, cell-phone video capture of a busted fire hydrant in sunnyvale California.
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New York - Those who love New York know it as an ever-changing city, where a neighborhood can take on a new character in a matter of weeks and the sight of digging workers usually signals the coming of a new apartment building or office tower.
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Urban Image
Pictures of various urban sights in Nashville, TN
Graffiti on fence surrounding development property in downtown Toronto.
Pictures of various urban sights in Nashville, TN
Pictures of various urban sights in Nashville, TN
Pictures of various urban sights in Nashville, TN
A market in Lagos, south west Nigeria. Zouzou Wizman
Pictures of various urban sights in Nashville, TN
Pictures of various urban sights in Nashville, TN
The Thin Blue Line Ride heading out of Rock Hill SC for the less busy country roads along the route.
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"Rue de Constantine (Fourth Arrondissement), 1866", albumen silver print from glass negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986 (1986.1141) cat. no. 56. Charles Marville / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"Banks of the Bièvre River at the Bottom of the rue des Gobelins (Fifth Arrondissement), ca. 1862", albumen silver print from glass negative. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
cat. no. 54 Charles Marville / Musée Carnavalet, Paris
The Manhattan Bridge and the New York City Skyline. "A wonderful person shared a quote last year by Henri Matisse that really resonated with me," says Gucwa."'A large part of the beauty of a picture arises from the struggle which an artist wages with his limited medium.' I think that there is a tremendous amount of truth in the (idea) that when you are limited, you are forced to work extremely hard to get the results you desire." Vivienne Gucwa
Deserted streets on a rainy day in Lyon France
Pictures of various urban sights in Nashville, TN
Cleveland, Ohio skyline Big Slow
Pictures of various urban sights in Nashville, TN
Pictures of various urban sights in Nashville, TN
Erik Johansson photo, where images are manipulated with Photoshop Courtesy Erik Johansson
Pictures of various urban sights in Nashville, TN
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