Sentence examples for edge of cities from inspiring English sources

Messy but productive slums on the edge of cities are growing fast.

The real restriction on Britain's construction sector is planning policy, which constrains building near existing infrastructure at the edge of cities.

It argues that most South Africans, 60% of whom live in towns, are keener to have somewhere to live than somewhere to farm: land invasions occur mainly on the edge of cities.

Often, they are finding them on the edge of cities, in the older suburbs, which long ago ceased being a refuge from urban problems and now tend to look much more like the cities themselves, racially and socioeconomically.

"It's true that we lose a little green space at the edge of cities as suburbs grow," Dr. Huber said, "but that loss is more than offset by all the wilderness gained from the farms abandoned farther away".

If it first expanded on the basis of social planning, Ikea later thrived on its opposite: unplanned out of town developments, with their immense blue and yellow boxes being built on the edge of cities, alongside motorways.

And as luck would have it, our no-frills but functional edge-of-city-centre hotel had one very good thing going for it: a roof-top pool.

Khamis won two free-kicks on the edge of City's goalmouth within the first 10 minutes.

With regard to traffic, its unfavorable conditions (i.e., inconvenience, overcrowding) cause women, whether those stranded in villages or hovering at the edge of city, difficulty in going about their daily lives with comfort and ease.

Some of the newest branches are on the edges of cities — Denver, Austin — that epitomize sprawl.

Many more lived at the edges of cities in makeshift shantytowns their residents derisively called Hoovervilles.