And one driver of that trend, says Gregory Guldner, director of the Center for the Study of Long Distance Relationships, is the perception that technology reduces the emotional separation of distance.
These satellite cities were expected to absorb half the growth between 1998 and 2017, but their distance from the city center, as well their lack of services and opportunities, make them unattractive and still unaffordable for the majority of Egyptians.
We're even told that we should sit a prescribed distance back, usually the dead center of the auditorium.
This is what occurs to Henry David as he squats on the bank of Fair Haven Bay, a third of the distance from Mount Misery to the center of Concord.
If a break from the water is what you're after, the hotel is near a golf course and within walking distance of Lagos' historic city center, where you can settle in on one of its many restaurant patios for fresh fish.
As would be expected, you're supposed to stand relatively center on the TV, and at a certain optimal distance.
During the contentious debate at the Citadel on Monday, a well-coached Colbert Busch repeatedly tried to distance herself from liberal positions and then seize the center.
Perlman said the applications in the demo were being run on a data center about 50 miles outside of San Francisco, but that the distance could even be several thousand miles.
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"We're the only city that has a city center airport where tourists and business people can fly right to within walking distance of the major venues, " said John Morand of the Toronto Harbor Commission.
Normally, getting in on the updates requires a trip to your friendly local service center -- or, for the 95 percent of us outside driving distance, saying goodbye to your mobile buddy for a couple days.
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Better to have that piece of work done locally by all the endpoints and have them send a light information stream to the center: a single map coordinate rather than a bunch of tower coordinates and distance measurements.
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