Sentence examples for urban frontier from inspiring English sources

But the couple called the space home for 27 years, rearing two daughters as they watched SoHo's gradual evolution from urban frontier to upscale address.

In "The Urban Frontier," published in 1959, Dr. Wade argued that cities like Pittsburgh, Louisville and Cincinnati were the catalysts for westward expansion.

Then, in 1832, with the northern stretches of the urban frontier nearing 14th Street, Houston Street became the southern boundary of the new 15th Ward.

But Kirsten has adapted to her urban frontier, traveling from one girl's home to another's for two weeks at a time, spending nights inside cramped apartments in public housing projects and inside luxury high-rises with sweeping city views.

And so is the week's refrain -- this is a safe haven, these are the best schools, the best people, the best neighborhoods scratched from farmland at the far urban frontier.

In addition to "The Urban Frontier," his books include the influential "Slavery in the Cities: The South, 1820-1860," and, with Harold M. Mayer, "Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis".

They are urban frontiers: gritty, sometimes lawless and eventful.

For those who study and create urban planning policy, the fast development of urban frontiers is creating confusion about how the government should handle these areas.

Many belong to that hardy genus Artista domestica, a group unusually skilled at foraging in urban frontiers, and long-known for sacrificing "normal" creature comforts in favor of other boons like low overhead and capacious, atmospheric habitats.

Some of its fiercest opponents are its instigators: the media types and liberal young professionals of every kind who settle the wild and "edgy" urban frontiers, not necessarily to the delight of people already there, and in so doing quite literally prepare the ground for the value "uplift" to come.

Scope seemed to be in the grip of the dubious urban-frontier trend in décor.