• The difference between urban and rural settings comes in how easily the rules can be waived.

    WSJ: As energy boom nears cities, a backlash grows

  • The dispute has driven a wedge between urban and rural Australia and between church and state.

    ECONOMIST: Australia

  • The widening gap between urban and rural areas is to be narrowed.

    ECONOMIST: China

  • Autocar India's Sorabjee, who recently took a Nano for a test drive, expects demand to be split evenly between urban and rural buyers.

    FORBES: Market Scan

  • Inequality between urban and rural areas has recently stabilised and that between regions has begun to fall slightly, but from an extraordinarily high level.

    ECONOMIST: Why Asia, too, is becoming increasingly unequal

  • Other economists note that allowing farmers to devote their labour and their land to more lucrative crops would help solve one of China's most pressing structural problems: the vast discrepancy between urban and rural incomes.

    ECONOMIST: China

  • More than 20 field projects followed, on such themes as energy flows and recycling in Lae (Papua New Guinea), urban flora and fauna in Berlin (Germany) and in Xalapa (Mexico), children in the city of Toronto (Canada), urban green spaces in Dayton (USA), Seoul (Rep. Korea) and Valencia (Spain) and linkages between the urban and rural environments in Bangkok (Thailand) and Rome (Italy).

    UNESCO: Urban connections of biosphere reserves

  • The State Council also pointed to a big wealth gap between the urban and rural regions and vowed to provide more fiscal support for the less developed central and western regions of the country.

    WSJ: China to Make State Firms Turn Over More Profits

  • Mr Hogg added that he was looking at the "policing model" and the distribution of officers between rural, urban and coastal areas of the two counties and Isles of Scilly.

    BBC: PCC Tony Hogg

  • And sometimes we're so divided between rural and urban, and folks whose hunting is part of their lives and folks whose only experience with guns is street crime.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on Reducing Gun Violence

  • Results for patients with lung, prostate and ovarian cancer, however, did not differ significantly between rural and urban dwellers - a finding that Dr Campbell said could not currently be explained.

    BBC: Countryside - Wales

  • John Edwards dares to stand in the gap between rich and poor, black and white, urban and rural, a vision of a new America.

    CNN: Jackson: Candidates 'represent hope and healing'

  • Yet the more significant reason is the growing rift in state politics between rural and urban constituencies.

    ECONOMIST: City politics

  • Set in 1969, Small Things relates the trials of a family caught somewhere between rural and urban, tradition and change.

    CNN: The start Of something big?

  • But none of these policies will change the fundamental cause of inequality between rural and urban areas: massive underemployment in the countryside.

    ECONOMIST: Reforms to keep things the same

  • That dichotomy between rural and urban undoubtedly affected his aesthetic.

    FORBES: Simon Spurr Proves You Don't Have To Wear Tweed In The Country

  • There are differences between how people feel in urban areas and rural areas.

    WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories

  • However, it also suggests that such convergence can be expected to take place over many decades and, in the short run, enhanced rural-urban migration might even widen the income divide between the countryside and cities.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • Some of the Republican split on the vote reflects the difference between the metropolitan view framed by urban gun violence and the rural perspective where guns are mostly associated with law-abiding hunters and the constitutional rights.

    WSJ: Analysis: In liberal NY, conservatives fight back

  • That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between blacks and whites, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persist in so many of today's urban and rural communities.

    NPR: Obama And The Politics Of Being Biracial

  • Swizerland was fairly neatly split between its rural and largely mountainous east and the more urban west.

    ECONOMIST: Joining the UN doesn't mean the Swiss will join the EU too

  • The SCRSJ is a collaboration between the department of urban studies at Glasgow University and the Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research at Aberdeen University.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | City's warm welcome to refugees

  • The issue reflects the regionalization of America's deep partisan divide, with splits in many states between populous urban areas that tend to be more liberal and larger, less populated rural areas that generally are more conservative.

    CNN: Some GOP-led states look at electoral vote changes

  • Obama and others are touting such efforts as signs that the country can bridge one of its deepest cultural divides: The split between mostly rural Americans who cherish guns for hunting and self-defense and urban citizens who equate them with gang violence, drive-by shootings and young lives lost.

    NPR: US Arms Control Advocates Must Show They Like Guns

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