The current systems wring too little parking revenue from city-dwellers and maximize their frustration.
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The new permissiveness affects city-dwellers more than country people, the rich more than the poor.
Villagers there depend on the health of their natural environment in ways that most city-dwellers have forgotten.
Yankelovich, a market research firm, estimates that city-dwellers are now exposed to about 5, 000 ad messages each day.
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But those xenophobic sentiments are disappearing in a new society of young city-dwellers hunting for jobs all over Europe.
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Internet grocers are more popular in Britain, largely because many city-dwellers lack cars.
In their urban cocoons, city-dwellers take for granted the abundance and availability of the economic goods that they consume.
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In all poor countries, city-dwellers are better informed, and less deferential, than peasants.
But we city-dwellers have a crazy belief that planning decisions in our city should focus primarily on our own interests.
In practice, nobody knows who would do what if American city-dwellers faced a lethal cloud of anthrax or nerve gas.
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If water is mainly a problem for people in the country, it does not mean that city-dwellers are unconcerned about their surroundings.
The closure of the famed Russian Tea Room in 1995 was greeted with dismay by city-dwellers who had never set foot in it.
Farmer's markets known as "Kiosks" sprang up providing city-dwellers with access to locally-grown fruit and vegetables, cutting the use of oil in transporting food in from the countryside.
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Admittedly, city-dwellers have cooled to him dramatically since then.
Though the proportion of city-dwellers has soared, they are different from the atomised individualists of Europe or North America: the extended family and traditional social networks have survived even in teeming Tehran.
Not for Mr Smith the lazy myths of a lost, rural golden age, to which many city-dwellers are prone to succumb after a day spent negotiating the noise, traffic and smog of their man-made environments.
If the party is to keep the peace in cities and if it is to continue to attract migrants in sufficient numbers, it needs to find ways to turn them into full-fledged city-dwellers, with the consumer power to match.
One is the establishment of virtual ghettos, be these either the tower-blocks of the suburbs, built from the 1950s onward with the noble intention of providing cheap housing for migrants and other new city-dwellers, or the squalid medieval centres of towns in the south such as Carpentras.
Brazil's overall housing shortage shrank, slowly, from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, as public and private developments managed to keep ahead of the swelling population though, during that period, many migrants exchanged a shack in the countryside for another in the burgeoning favelas, giving city-dwellers the impression of a deterioration.
Baker, 39, moved to a larger house with all the amenities, but his experience underscored a simple fact that most city-dwellers ignore: Even in a prosperous country like Britain, hundreds of thousands of people still lack high-speed Internet service, particularly in rural areas, where homes are just too far from telephone exchanges to get a megabit connection.
While big-city dwellers are often maligned by those who prefer the charms of small-town life, Park and Peterson note that most people in the country live in big cities and that studies prove that the vast majority of those living in metropolises are happy about it.
He promises to be inclusive, seeking to attract black people and inner-city dwellers, perhaps even trade unionists who would never normally dream of voting Tory.
The mourners at his funeral included Israelis from all walks of life -- religious, secular, farmers, city dwellers, Jews, non-Jews, new olim and sabras.
The changes to Britain's edible landscape have sprouted out of concerns about the environment and healthy living, and city dwellers like 44-year-old Sharp have been inspired to do what villagers in the countryside have done for years: Grow and harvest their own.
City dwellers have become used to self-service machines and telephone-keypad transactions, which don't require attendants.
But many of Hill Country's newest wineries are popping up much closer to Austin - only about 30 miles away - making it even more convenient for city dwellers seeking the wine country experience.
Similarly, there are neither facilities dispersed around the country to provide a measure of collective protection for the non-combatant population nor well-developed contingency plans for evacuating to uncontaminated rural areas city dwellers who may be the targets of chemical strikes.
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Similarly, training and facilities should be offered around the country to provide a measure of collective protection for the civilian population, together with well-developed contingency plans for evacuating to uncontaminated rural areas city dwellers who may be the targets of chemical or other forms of genocidal warfare.
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For now the biggest threat isn't Obama but cash-strapped state governments like New York's, where Governor David A. Paterson's income-tax hikes could push the top rate for New York City dwellers to 12.6%.
At the redeveloped Traverse City State Hospital in Michigan, you will more likely find wine-makers, coffee roasters and condo dwellers than paranormal specialists and thrill-seeking teenagers.
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