With another three billion people expected to join the urban ranks by 2050, international humanitarian financing has not kept pace with this changing dynamic.
That same Blue Book report found that China's urban residents ranked unemployment as their second highest concern, after social security.
The Urban Land Institute ranked the city as fourth-best in the country for office buildings thanks to its projected job growth of 1.2 percent and its roster of expanding brand-name companies like Starbucks, Nordstrom and Boeing.
Urban residents ranked it as the most well-known poultry disease, but rural residents ranked it fifth.
Last year we ranked Urban Outfitters seventh on our list, but its spike in price has pushed it beyond our $5.5 billion market value limit, knocking it off the 2008 best mid-cap list.
In the 1830 and 1840 censuses, Albany was ranked as the 9th-largest urban place in the nation, then back to 10th in 1850.
Using Wellington, New Zealand as a research site, the aim of this research is to show how the most suitable patches of vegetation in urban landscapes can be identified, ranked, and prioritised as potential urban wildlife sanctuaries.
When she worked there, Arbitron ranked the urban station #2 out of 60 radio stations in the Chicago market.
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite was ranked as one of the year's top-10 best albums by Time, Rolling Stone and USA Today.
Neighborhoods were ranked by "urban area disadvantage index" scores, calculated by the percentage of children living in households without piped water, flush toilets, electricity, or nonpolluting cooking fuel; whose mothers were unemployed or uneducated; and whose households were overcrowded or among the poorest 40%.
