Sentence examples for going urban from inspiring English sources

The going urban rate for a day's labour is 250 Kenyan shillings, around $3.Unsurprisingly, crime is a national obsession.

Zoë Kravitz has said she was blocked from auditioning for a small role in the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises because the film-makers said they "weren't going urban".

Perhaps for Kravitz, the fact that her character's race is never acknowledged is refreshing in an industry where she was once rejected for a role in Batman because the directors weren't "going urban".

In came social housing and down – spectacularly – went urban homelessness.

So perhaps it was a matter of time before the safari went urban.

By the late 1990s, the Mungiki went urban, taking over Nairobi's minibus trade.

The local crowd buzzed with excitement at this provocative suggestion, but Apple won't go urban anytime soon.

For its encore, the company went urban, and opened a second citizenM last year in Amsterdam proper, with sleek and modular rooms beginning at 79 euros a night.

Until big cities have a web of car-free routes that can carry most people on two wheels where they need to go, urban cycling will remain dangerous.

Here you can go urban foraging with the Edinburgh Larder, find a fetish club in a cave, welcome May Day with fire, or sit in Scotland's first cat cafe with a fat Persian called Guillaume.

Kevin Walsh, the 50-year-old, Brooklyn-born creator of the Web site forgotten-ny.com — a vast cornucopia of facts, photographs, conjecture, mythology and infrastructure — rarely goes urban exploring in the guerrilla sense of the term.