Sentence examples for urbanizing world from inspiring English sources

"The United States stands apart as an anti-urban nation in an urbanizing world," Mr. Katz told me.

As highlighted in Fig. 2, the local climate conditions where people live and work create most of the direct human health hazards, such as those due to the urban heat-island effect (especially in a rapidly urbanizing world) (16), while the more indirect health effects are often associated with global or large-scale regional climate change.

We show the potential conservation benefits of water systems in urban areas, but further studies are needed to investigate the optimal design of cities to include biodiversity as an integrated part of the urban environment, thereby sustaining a higher biodiversity in an increasingly urbanizing world.

The broader consequence of these phenomena is that we should think beyond clearly defined nations and "nation building" toward integrating a rapidly urbanizing world population directly into regional and international markets.

"That may seem like pie in the sky," says Daniel B. Botkin, an ecologist and author of "Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the 21st Century," but in the crowded, urbanizing world to come, he concludes, such an understanding will be essential.

Researchers and planners worldwide have emphasized the need for a better planning in an urbanizing world.

Yet public infrastructure and government programs are not keeping pace with population growth in a rapidly urbanizing developing world, resulting in variable landscapes characterized by inequalities in housing, socioeconomic status, environmental conditions, and health (7, 8).

Overall, this study provides a quantitative approach for research and practice in urban sustainability, and should be of value to other rapidly urbanizing regions around the world.

China is one of the most rapidly urbanizing countries in the world, and during the past three decades its urban expansion has encroached on productive lands and caused myriad environmental problems.

China is the largest and most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, and is projected to add an additional 200 million city dwellers by the end of 2030.

I recently returned from a trip to meet a dynamic group of colleagues who are working to bring nature to cities in one of the fastest-urbanizing nations in the world ­­- China.