Those were enjoyable urban treats of my childhood, not crops we relied upon for survival.
For example, the basic technologies needed for improving water and sanitation in high-density urban areas – treated water piped directly into people's homes, sewers to take away waste, and drains to cope with surface water – have changed little in a hundred years.
The sewage sludge originated from urban waste treated at the sewage sludge treatment station in the city of Franca, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The trial is being run at 12 centres in the UK which encompass a mix of rural and urban populations, treated within district general and specialist hospitals.
Patients of these communities have a reduced risk to get infectious diseases from resistant pathogens than people from urban areas treated with traditional antibiotics.
We conducted an outbreak investigation including a case control study; cases were all urban residents treated for VL between 2000 and 2008 at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, a university hospital in the city.
Given that the study was conducted on a population located in an urban area, treated by university-affiliated rheumatologists, we cannot generalize our findings to patients seen in other clinical settings.
After Papua New Guinea, Cambodia has one of the highest rates of gang-rape in the region, with many young men in urban areas treating it as a recreational activity.
We used this methodology rather than simply identifying the biggest city in a metro as "urban" and treating the rest of the metro as the "suburbs," as other reports on cities-versus-suburbs often do.
The same officials have no problem closing schools in poor urban districts, treating citizens there as chess pawns, but they dare not offend an organized bloc in politically powerful communities.
