Sentence examples for urban improvements from inspiring English sources
Whether or not the Games prove an embarrassment, their legacy of urban improvements, along with an emerging cosmopolitanism, will have an effect beyond the world of sport.
It is a reminder that humane cities don't reserve quality architecture just for rich people, that small urban improvements help everyone because city neighborhoods are interdependent.
This message of official indifference contributed to a climate of public skepticism about government and the city that, in turn, dimmed expectations for urban improvements, large or small.
It would be much more cost-effective to invest in urban improvements that communities help shape through a participatory democratic process.
Ironically, Philadelphia had, in fact, led most cities in providing urban improvements, but they were too few and too slow, and the breakdown of law and order in the 1840s forced changes.
Government officials promise urban improvements but peddle outmoded ideas about sweeping away informal neighborhoods: ridding the city of its poor while erecting skyscrapers to produce Dubai on the Nile for the well-to-do.
Well-planned urban improvement and renewal projects can improve community health and safety [ 96, 97] (e.g., improved housing and street lighting; reducing environmental lead exposure [ 98]; more parks and green areas for recreation [ 99], safe bikeways and pedestrian paths [ 100]) and other integrated urban planning approaches such as integrated water basin development in Indonesia [ 101].
One man's urban improvement, it seems, is another man's urban debacle.
The South Bronx illustrates how government, although it can be obstructionist and infuriating, is also indispensable to urban improvement.
The Urban Landscape OCT. 1 -- The Municipal Art Society will raise money for the organization's urban improvement and preservation programs at a dinner.
Medellín now looks ahead to another urban improvement scheme, which has proved both costly and contentious: burying its central highway artery.
