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| Â | Urban district - Enpsychlopedia |
 | | In England and Wales, urban districts and rural districts were created in 1894 (by the Local Government Act of 1894) as subdivisions of administrative counties. | | | Urban districts had an elected Urban District Council (UDC), which shared local government responsibillities with a county council. | | | Urban districts usually covered smaller towns, usually with populations of less than 30,000, From the 1930s onwards, many urban and rural districts were merged, and so many urban districts often covered some rural areas as well. |
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| Â | URBAN (I. - VIII.) - LoveToKnow Article on URBAN (I. - VIII.) |
| | The only territory gained during Urban's pontificate, the duchy of Urbino, the last addition to the papal states, was acquired by reversion (1631); and in his one war, with the duke of Parma, for the district of Castro, he met defeat and humiliation (1644). | | | Urban bore a hand in the condemnation of Galileo. | | | URBAN (I. - VIII.) - LoveToKnow Article on URBAN (I. schism but for whom the pope was unable to secure assistance. |
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| | Well, in Srinagar district, 78 per cent of the population is urban. | | | The infuriated young people of Danwhadpora village in Kokernag constituency in the district of Anantnag were chanting slogans right before us when we went there to observe polling: "Hum chahtehen Azadi, Kashmir banega Pakistan". | | | During my stay in Srinagar, for more than a week, I conducted a survey on the basis of random sampling spread over all the 10 constituencies of Srinagar district, commensurate with the demographic composition of the population of Srinagar district as per the 2001 Census. |
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| Â | Dick W. J. Foeken (Leiden University) |
| | Dick Foeken works as a human geographer and his main research interest at present concerns urban agriculture in Africa. | | | Current research: Kenya coast handbook: regional development in social perspective ; Street foods in Nairobi ; The Kenya Coast: problems and perspectives ; Urban farmers in Nakuru, Kenya ; Sustainable urban agriculture in Tanzania (NIRP-project 97-10.1) Publications: Dick Foeken (with R.A. Obudho) Urban Agriculture in Africa: a Bibliographical Survey. | | | He is currently involved in two projects, notably "Urban Farmers in an East African Town: the Case of Nakuru Town" (Kenya) and "Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Tanzania". |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/data/indiv/area/idass/FOEKEN,Dick.htm
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| Â | Conference Report: Section 1 - Urban and Environmental Studies |
| | Due to the approach to create a multifunctional urban district, office space, shopping facilities, cultural and leisure facilities as well as 1030 flats were integrated including 520 rental flats provided by the HUDC. | | | It remains to be seen which effects the introduction of a new district plan for the development of disaster proved urban blocks in 1997 will have on the renewal of districts congested with wooden houses, which are designated for the application of this new planning tool. | | | Pelletier pointed out that since the end of the 1980's foreign people from Asia have come to settle down in this area, adding a new indicator normally used to identify a district burdened with problems, although special care and prudence is required to avoid false, deterministic conclusions. |
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| Â | Shanghai, China |
| | Eight of the districts govern suburbs, satellite towns, and rural areas further away from the urban core: | | | Nine of the districts govern "Puxi", or the older part of urban and suburban Shanghai on the west bank of the Huangpu River: | | | Shanghai is divided into 19 county-level divisions: 18 districts and 1 county. |
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http://creekin.net/c2771-n40-shanghai-china.html
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| Â | Neighbourhood Management - A Key Instrument in Integrative Urban District Development |
| | There is no normative concept of the "ideal" urban district; the guiding principle must be what is feasible and appropriate for the district. | | | It combines new perspectives on the role of government in social and local government policy and in urban development and renewal policy with an appeal to all concerned to be open to new ideas and ways of thinking in coping with new patterns of action and behaviour. | | | This is also shown by the results of a national impulse congress "Socially Integrative City" on the subject of neighbourhood management staged in Leipzig in late October 2000 by the German Institute of Urban Affairs, which threw the problems and opportunities of neighbourhood management into strong relief. |
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http://www.difu.de/english/occasional/neighbourhood-management.shtml
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| Â | Japan's geeks retreat to a world of their own |
| | Maligned by mainstream society, here they stayed, their tastes and habits transforming the district also known as Electric Town into what sociologists are calling an urban first: a ghetto of geeks. | | | Sociologists and urban planners compare the phenomenon to ethnic and social enclaves such as New York's Chinatown or San Francisco's Castro district, born of a blend of discrimination and shared cultural cues. | | | It was just another night out with the pocket-protector crowd in Tokyo's neon-splashed Akihabara district, where "costume cafes" are the latest of hundreds of new businesses catering to Japan's otaku, or nerds. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/12/MNG9TD6B7R1.DTL
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| Â | SchoolBoardMatters.org - San Francisco School Board election |
| | She is on the National Steering Committee of the Council of Urban Boards of Education of the National School Boards Association, has been a Director of the California School Boards Associaiton, President of the Association of California Urban School Districts and is active in the Council of the Great City Schools. | | | Below is the complete list of candidates running for a seat on the School Board of the San Francisco School District. | | | As the former Executive Director of Wu Yee Children’s Services, I have the administrative and financial background to make educated decisions on the School District’s budget. |
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| | Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, but the president was given permission to prevent the moving of the US embassy from Tel Aviv. | | | Owing to its proximity to the port of Jaffa, and its status as the first Jewish community that immigrants saw when coming into the country, Tel Aviv quickly grew to become the centre of Israeli urban life, and it remains so to this day. | | | Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv's Soccer Club (Once Israeli champion, twice Israeli cup holder and twice Israeli Toto cup holder) is the only Israeli Soccer team on the highest Israeli soccer league (Ligat Ha'al) that represent only a neighbourhood - Shechunat Hatikva (The Hope Neighborhood) in Tel Aviv - and not an entire city. |
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| Â | Nicosia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Nicosia has an organised network of Urban Busses that is managed by the Nicosia Bus Company Ltd. All the bus routes start at the Solomos Square terminal in the centre of the city and cover all the areas of the city. | | | Nicosia was the scene of extreme violence in the period just prior to Cypriot independence in 1960. | | | The Municipality of Nicosia is now headed by the Mayor, who is Mihalis Zambellas (supported by the conservative party Democratic Rally and the United Democrats) and the council comprising of 26 councilors, one of who is Deputy Mayor. |
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| Â | Sender: H-URBAN Urban History discussion list <H-URBAN@UICVM |
| | The University of the District of Columbia is an exclusively urban land grant university. | | | > Eleven years ago, when I was chair of Urban Studies at the >University of the District of Columbia, I interviewed for a fellowship >in academic administration. | | | With the exception of the discussion of University of the District of Columbia no one has mentioned historically black colleges and the urban neighborhoods that surround them. |
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| | On our travel to Viseu we will have a stop at EXPO98 District to acknowledge some recent urban planning and modernist urban architecture by Calatrava, Alvaro Siza, S.O.M, Vittorio Gregotti, etc., contrasting with the historic landmark the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in Belém and the spectacular Ponte de 25 de Abril over the Tejo,... | | | The Convento de Cristo is an extraordinary complex ensemble founded in 1162 by the Grand Master of the Templar Order of Tomar, and developed, and expanded over centuries into a sophisticated and inspiring urban monument, a great historical synthesis of building crafts and urban architecture! | | | Check-in in Viseu Hotels and Lunch on your own, at the Hotel, or in the city centre.The Hotel Grão Vasco is right near the Historic Centre whereas the Hotel Montebelo is about 15 walking minutes from the City Centre. |
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http://www.ceu-net.org/id17_m.htm
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| Â | Bambooweb: Shanghai |
| | Eight of the districts govern suburbs, satellite towns, and rural areas further away from the urban core: | | | Nine of the districts govern "Puxi", or the older part of urban and suburban Shanghai on the west bank of the Huangpu River: | | | Shanghai is divided into 19 county-level divisions : 18 districts and 1 county. |
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http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/s/h/Shanghai.html
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| Â | Rural district - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The typical shape of a rural district was a doughnut shaped ring around a town (which would be either an urban district or a municipal borough). | | | All rural districts in England and Wales were abolished in 1974 (by the Local Government Act 1972) and were typically merged with nearby urban districts or boroughs to form a uniform pattern of districts, which contained urban and rural areas. | | | In what is now the Republic of Ireland (then a part of the United Kingdom) rural districts were created in 1898 by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. |
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| Â | Rhein-Sieg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It district as known today was created in 1969 as one of the reorganization of the districts in North Rhine-Westphalia, by merging the former district Sieg with the former district Bonn (which Bonn did leave in 1887 to become an urban district). | | | Neighboring districts are Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Oberbergischer Kreis, Altenkirchen, Neuwied, Ahrweiler, Euskirchen, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, the urban district of Cologne, and nearly completely surrounded by the district is the independent urban district of Bonn. | | | Cities and Districts in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) |
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| Â | Sunderland - encyclopedia article about Sunderland. |
| | And in that year was merged with several surrounding urban districts urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. | | | In England and Wales, urban districts and rural districts were created in 1894 (by the Local Government Act of 1894) as subdivisions of administrative counties. | | | The district had a population of 280,807 at the (2001 Census). |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sunderland
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| Â | Mauritius Districts |
| | In 1970, Mauritius consisted of three district councils, five urban councils, and three dependencies. | | | The five urban councils were apparently absorbed into their respective districts. | | | The district councils (and their capitals) were Moka-Flacq (Quartier Militaire), North (Mapou), and South (Rose Belle). |
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| | Waipa District, in New Zealand's North Island, has a resident population of around 40,000 fairly evenly mixed between urban and rural, with the main urban populations centred in the towns of Te Awamutu, Cambridge, Pirongia and Templeview. | | | Visit the Taupo District Council website for more information. | | | More information on Rotorua is available from the Rotorua District Council website. |
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| | Vielen Dank noch einmal für Ihre Gastfreundschaft.” - Paddy Behan, cathaoirleach Naas Urban District | | | He said he was ‘enthralled’ by the facilities available in Dillingen and believed ‘the future lies in co-operation between both towns.’ He said the visit would not have been possible without the help and guidance of Naas teacher Orla O’Connell, who acted as interpreter and Naas resident Gunni Schulz, originally from Berlin. | | | There are also a number of other such facilities in the town. |
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| Â | Travel Guide - Online Reservation - Warsaw Accommodation |
| | It district as known today was created in 1969 as one of the reorganization of the districts in North Rhine-Westphalia, by merging the former district Sieg with the former district Bonn (which Bonn did leave in 1887 to become an urban district). | | | Neighboring districts are Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Oberbergischer Kreis, Altenkirchen, Neuwied, Ahrweiler, Euskirchen, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, the urban district of Cologne, and nearly completely surrounded by the district is the independent urban district of Bonn. | | | The red lion is the symbol of the dukes of Berg, who owned big part of the district. |
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| Â | Hiroshima - Unipedia |
| | Hiroshima was founded in 1589, on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, and became a major urban center during the Meiji period. | | | Hiroshima was founded by Mori Motonari as his capital. | | | Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial |
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| Â | ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1980 |
| | and the urban districts of Cobh, Fermoy, Mallow, Midleton and Youghal. | | | and the urban districts of Clonakilty, Kinsale and Skibbereen. | | | and the urban districts of Buncrana and Letterkenny. |
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| Â | Cultural diversity in European cities - General European experiences and city examples of best practices |
| | By instituting the principle of social mix, the law on Solidarity and Urban Renewal reinforces the fight against discrimination by organising solidarity within the agglomerations. | | | The urban political challenges are therefore to combat the negative consequences of urban segregation without eradicating important social structures and platforms in local urban areas. | | | In this sense all urban citizens should be able to feel a kind of ownership both in the urban area where they live and in the city as a whole. |
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| Â | Basic Policy Relating to Construction of the Kansai Science City |
| | In agricultural utilization districts that contain favorable farmland or are suited for use as farmland, an effort will be made to prevent invasive urbanization while ensuring an accurate understanding of the intentions of farmers in order to provide and maintain those districts in the form of suburban agricultural districts that offer a favorable living environment. | | | Moreover, district centers, which integrate urban service functions based on systematic collaboration in functional terms by taking advantage of the characteristics of the arrangement of the cultural and scientific research districts, will be provided scattered throughout the cultural and scientific research districts. | | | Together with promoting the construction of cultural and scientific research facilities such as advanced research/educational facilities and research and development-oriented industrial facilities by taking advantage of this district being the site of the Kansai Gaidai University, the construction of residential facilities will also be promoted. |
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| Â | Board of Directors Highlights |
| | The South Wisconsin District of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | | | The Strategic Plan for 2003-05 was presented and includes reducing or eliminating the capital debt of $2.4 million; to do necessary capital improvements and development; to start new congregations; to refocus ministry in the urban Milwaukee area; and the DELTO (Distance Education Leading To Ordination) program. | | | The program will be self-supporting, and administered through the South Wisconsin District as an RSO (a recognized service organization of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod). |
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| Â | NameTraq Last Name: Kato |
| | Kato Patissia station on the Piraeus-Kifissia urban electric railway (ISAP) is to remain closed tomorrow due to works, ISAP said yesterday. | | | Bill Kato said yesterday that Sao was "not so serious" at the Queen's Medical Center, but could not confirm he had been upgraded from critical to serious... | | | Hiroshi Kato, the head of the Japanese relief group, was himself deported from China in October 2002 after being detained for about a week in Dalian, Liaoning... |
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| Â | Basic Policy Relating to Construction of the Kansai Science City |
| | In agricultural utilization districts that contain favorable farmland or are suited for use as farmland, an effort will be made to prevent invasive urbanization while ensuring an accurate understanding of the intentions of farmers in order to provide and maintain those districts in the form of suburban agricultural districts that offer a favorable living environment. | | | Moreover, district centers, which integrate urban service functions based on systematic collaboration in functional terms by taking advantage of the characteristics of the arrangement of the cultural and scientific research districts, will be provided scattered throughout the cultural and scientific research districts. | | | In addition, the number of employees in the cultural and scientific research districts of the city is estimated to be approximately 70,000. |
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