Many urban neighborhoods are not conducive to keeping a car, which a long-time suburban dweller may be reluctant to give up.
Demographics and market trends arguably look positive too: consumers, even in the U.S., are gravitating toward urban neighborhoods where shopping and homes intermingle.
But crashes that occur when vehicles travel at lower driving speeds in American urban neighborhoods are also a major problem, a new report found.
Anyone who has ever been to Rwanda can tell you that the hills here are no joke: every hairpin turn boasts views of mountains and more mountains, and even the urban neighborhoods are built on steep hillsides.
Now, in many older neighborhoods, the urban forest has matured, making our suburban spaces shadier, and increasingly our garden understory is affected by tree roots.
They used the power of eminent domain to push freeways through the heart of urban areas, destroying some neighborhoods outright and cutting others off from the rest of the city.
One of his urban policy proposals, called Promise Neighborhoods, focuses on children in low-income neighborhoods with early childhood education and weekend community centers.
Mr. Otteau said foreclosure activity is heavily concentrated in specific neighborhoods, especially lower-income urban and rural areas.
WSJ: New York Area Housing Recovery: Signs the Slump May Be Over
The area is getting a general face-lift, though in the absence of any urban planning, sections of old, gritty neighborhoods remain.
Potential market saturation for new stores has been exacerbated to some degree by the reluctance of some urban areas to welcome Wal-Mart to their neighborhoods, as politicians play to anti-Wal-Mart pressure in areas that tend to be more heavily unionized than the company's rural roots.
FORBES: Wal-Mart Warranties Don't Threaten Circuity City, Best Buy
According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, roaches "are common even in the cleanest of crowded urban areas and older dwellings" and are found in all types of neighborhoods.
CNN: Greyhound bus ride turned into roach-fest, passengers say
She has provided thousands of hours of CERT and community preparedness trainings to community members and organizations in multiple diverse communities including Youth Organizations, low-income Hispanic neighborhoods, multi-ethnic Muslim populations, multi-tribal urban Native Americans, African American, Faith Based and Asian American communities.
The iconic design of NYC Loop and the relationship of its public space units to the city's neighborhoods will become an integral part of New York City's urban identity.
ENGADGET: NYC awards six Reinvent Payphones finalists, asks public to select favorite via Facebook
Some New Orleans neighborhoods remind me of pre-1980 Greenwich Village, offering a charming urban environment without either the extortionate price tag or oppressive density.
The desire is also substantiated by real estate prices for urban residential space, which are 40 to 200 percent higher than in traditional suburban neighborhoods -- this price variation can be found both in cities and small communities equipped with walkable infrastructure, he said.
CNN: Is America's suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?
The urban traditional groups Kenis was looking for were either disbanded, turned to the bush, or tucked away in remote neighborhoods of the city.
Westview used that intelligence to home in on the northern San Diego neighborhoods of Escondido and Oceanside, where Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps base, provides jobs and limits urban sprawl.
应用推荐