Sentence examples for city surface from inspiring English sources

Since one‐fourth of the city surface is streets, he urged paying attention to them.

This system is composed of a series of canals, retention tanks and the Vaigai River running across the city surface.

Although representing only 11% of the city surface, the not-urbanized blocks showed the highest species richness, which corresponded to 96.3% of the richness estimated in the city.

Cultivated forests, urban woodlots and domestic garden tree stands are far the most dominant types of green spaces in terms of coverage of city surface area.

But she makes no secret of her crusade to save the ancient manhole covers, coal-chute covers and vault covers that dapple the city surface by the hundreds of thousands, some of them still-active portals to the netherworld.

But it was Chicago's misfortune, in mid-July, to be in the grip of an unusually strong temperature inversion: the air in the first thousand feet above the city surface was cooler than the air at two and three thousand feet.

At its best, graffiti is a kind of graphic art, treating city surfaces as gallery walls where anyone with a spray can may give a show.

The impervious nature of modern cities is only exacerbating this problem by increasing runoff from city surfaces, triggering combined sewer overflow events in cities with single-pipe wastewater conveyance systems and intensifying urban flooding.

Recognising the inconsistent roles graffiti has played within processes of degradation and regeneration, the artist Moose uses powerful pressure washers to create inscriptions on city surfaces, highlighting the boundary between legality and illegality.

Finding an explanation for such a significant difference seems possible, if the inhomogeneities of population density and city surfaces are taken into account.

Now researchers have identified an important but seemingly innocuous factor: the differences in how well smooth city surfaces and natural landscapes shed heat to the atmosphere.