The most common place to find the non-scoopers at work is on the city sidewalks in residential areas, suggesting that either haste or laziness is the culprit.

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The town has been held by anti-Gaddafi forces for several days and rebels still reportedly control the inner city and residential areas.

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Dakar's mayor, Khalifa Sall, told RFM radio that the ramshackle development of densely-populated residential areas in the city made it impossible for the emergency services to operate effectively.

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The business community, which had holed up in the city's higher-ground residential areas or across Lake Pontchartrain, re-engaged in civic life.

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Factories are widely scattered all over the country with several located in city centers, even in residential areas.

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Those are the outer suburbs and exurbs, residential areas far from a major city.

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The growth and expansion of Mahabalipuram, Chennai are extended to major areas of the city, so home dreamers are looking to buy the residential apartments at an affordable cost.

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"The residential areas have become car parks for commuters and that's not acceptable in a city, " he said.

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These playgrounds were once concentrated in areas like Georgetown and Capitol Hill, while the rest of the city was given over to residential neighbourhoods with many family homes and few restaurants, bars, concert spaces or diners.

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