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• So, close to 200,000 people a day migrate from the rural to the urban areas. —  Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
• But I think people have recognized the sanctity of our urban areas. —  Rob Forbes on ways of seeing
• The change reduces the way heat accumulates in built-up areas - known as the urban heat island effect - and allows people who live and work inside to switch off power-hungry air conditioning units. —  Locally Grown
• "That every city in North America have an urban agriculture centre; centres based on real urban or peri-urban farms that model not only the social, and cultural and ecological benefits of farming in the city, but the economic benefits as well" —  Progressive Bloggers
• Smaller British ground units based in non-urban areas were on call to put down attempted coups against the king or army mutinies. —  LewRockwell.com

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