Divya Sreedharan asks BDA commissioner M.N.Vidyashankar why they are nibbling hungrily at the green space in the guise of urbanisation. |
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Prions, the rogue proteins that also cause BSE, have come to be an ultra-modern bogey, a sinister by-product of urbanisation. |
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Mumbai's ordeal-by-deluge holds important caveats for India's dynamic of unconsidered, runaway urbanisation. |
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But their ascent to this status depended largely on the processes of industrialisation, urbanisation and commodification. |
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The process of urbanisation and industrialisation has accelerated rapidly in recent years. |
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He argues that we need to stem the current tide of urbanisation and reduce our reliance on foreign inward investment. |
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Certainly, for the rural Sundanese, modernity carries overtones of urbanisation, Westernisation, and corruption. |
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The report said urbanisation and the second stage of industrialisation are the two new growth engines. |
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The debate over these little-known acts was a litmus test of the issues that lie hidden beneath Australia's rapid urbanisation. |
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The high urbanisation has resulted in massive tracts of uninhabited land across the country. |
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Now, there is proof that the city's headlong rush into urbanisation has taken a heavy toll on its natural valleys. |
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With rapidly increasing economic growth, urbanisation and transportation, air pollution is a growing issue. |
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Bahia Blanca has become the scene of deep reflection as it seeks to redefine its urbanisation. |
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Given the level of increase of Benin's urban population, urbanisation is of prime concern. |
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Migration is a structural element in urbanisation and we certainly should not be frightened of it. |
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This process corresponds to the development of urbanisation and the emergence of the idea of private space in the bourgeois areas of cities. |
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Following this test run in India and China, it should serve to measure the impact of changing consumption habits in the wake of urbanisation. |
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In this roundup we meet a Venetian gondolier, watch the rhythms of Porto Alegre and hear the story of Doha's urbanisation. |
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European cities are continuing to suffer the effects of urbanisation which very often has gone too far. |
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India's vulture population had seen a steady decline due to habitat destruction caused by that omnibus aggressor, urbanisation. |
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Recognition should also be given to the pressures which the delicate marine aqua system faces from urbanisation of coastal areas. |
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In cities, above all, congestion is one of the greatest problems, partly as a consequence of the increase in urbanisation. |
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This means that land is increasingly becoming an object of controversy, while growing urbanisation requires the legalisation of urban land use. |
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At the same time, dwindling farmlands and, especially in China, urbanisation are curbing supply. Yet Malthusian doom is highly improbable. |
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There's no inevitable consequence of urbanisation that is either positive or negative. |
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Brazil's increasing urbanisation has meant that groups are often exposed to different species and the variety of sandflies that transmit them. |
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They belong to another history of urbanisation, one that is as universal and ubiquitous as the skyscraper, only much older. |
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Urban design should protect important habitats from urbanisation and promote biodiversity by incorporating it into the city's fabric. |
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The major threat to the wetland is from urbanisation and tourism development along the coast. |
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Our urbanisation projects are perceived by people as ideal cities where they want to live. |
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In his account, the government emerged with a more explicit role as a generator of economic growth, and urbanisation was shown to be a hitherto neglected feature. |
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Moreover, the built-up area thus formed will become congested with buildings, paving the way for urbanisation and consequent environmental degradation. |
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Woodlands are the butcherbird's natural habitat, but like many similar species they have adapted well to urbanisation and can be found in leafy suburbs. |
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In stagnant economies, urbanisation levels do not increase much. |
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She had taught at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, from 1976-2000, specialising in the Indus civilisation, urbanisation, trade and pastoralism. |
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Would not one be more advised to invest upstream, in the design of buildings and urbanisation, in order to smooth down the peaks of summer overmortality? |
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Since achieving independence as a result of the partition of India, the urbanisation has increased exponentially, with several different causes. |
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Immigration, from both within and outside the country, is regarded as one of the main factors contributing to urbanisation in Pakistan. |
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How do you think urbanisation will affect the way NGOs work? |
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Therefore in order to enable the rural population to share in the economic revival despite this low degree of urbanisation, progress continues apace with the country's electrification. |
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For the OECD reporters, although the urban lifestyle and the phenomena of urban spread undeniably contribute to global climate warming, urbanisation in itself is not an aggravating factor. |
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Many cities are trying to combat the disadvantages of urbanisation such as congestion and the related damage to the environment by introducing zones of reduced pollution. |
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Income inequalities also exist on a national level, supporting the idea of a two-speed region in which the most advanced areas are growing, experiencing rapid urbanisation and are relatively well integrated. |
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Nature rules and the region appears to have been spared urbanisation. |
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With 3.7 million urban citizens out of a population of 12 million, Mali has a low level of urbanisation compared to other countries in the region. |
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The disease may also have been helped by urbanisation and development, which strengthen the transport links that shuttle virus from villages to the town and back into uninfected country. |
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Major works required for urbanisation and development can threaten the coastal environment if carried out without sufficient knowledge of the coastal dynamic, by accelerating the erosion of the seashore. |
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So how can NGOs unpick all the different sub-trends of urbanisation? |
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They will help meet the ravenous needs of China's hectic urbanisation. From Ulaanbaatar, situated to the north of the Gobi, it can easily look as if parts of the south are being integrated into China. |
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By their number and the density of their patterns, they contribute to knit together the region and to bring urbanisation closer to the rural world. |
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The urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic era. |
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Ground and river water is often diverted to industrial farms from the qanats, which local government have less incentive to maintain as urbanisation spreads apace. |
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The Towns and cities of Ma³opolska play the role of local poles of growth, however the urbanisation level of the region is limited, and there are considerable spatial disproportions in social and economic development. |
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Plus, there is a strong trend towards urbanisation, ever growing megacities and increasing consumer awareness about how unsustainable some aspects of our economies have become. |
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Special issue, contributions are announced around three important chapters: urbanisation process: temporalities and spatial practices, urban system: function and activities, urban planning: techniques and society. |
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But many new buildings are designed first and greened later a cheaper but less effective approach. As for the superblocks that exemplify China's urbanisation, a dozen new ones are built every day. |
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The interrelation of karst ecological systems, human health and human activities will be studied, including agriculture, urbanisation, timbering and mining. |
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Other factors include urbanisation, the overcrowding of humans in poor, tropical countries and the movement and trade of animals. Still, about half of the zoonotic pathogens have a wildlife reservoir. |
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Despite urbanisation and loss of green cover, Delhi's black kite population has remained intact. |
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Public policy lags behind urbanisation, which often means that basic services, like schools, transportation, public spaces and land rights, are not delivered to the millions of people living in informal urban settlements. |
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The spectacular re-emergence of dengue in Latin America can be explained by the disorganised state of anti-mosquito programmes due to population growth, urbanisation and impoverishment. |
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Migration from other countries, mainly from those nearby, has further accelerated the process of urbanisation in Pakistani cities. |
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This urban pressure results in informal urbanisation, revealing the structural fragility of urban systems which are particularly sensitive to crises. |
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This makes it one of the most selective urbanisation in Catalunya, with parcels of min. 800 m², with all connections under earth inside the plots. |
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In Calpe, you can find three different style of live: the centre, the beach and urbanisation, each have a specific construction style, a different distribution of the free space and local people. |
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Others blame urbanisation, because growing cities need more asphalt and other impermeable surfaces which will not absorb water that would once have soaked into the soil. |
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Industrialisation, urbanisation and the Disruption of 1843 all undermined the tradition of parish schools. |
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Commercial development likewise increased the demand for information, along with rising populations and increased urbanisation. |
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The concentration of labour into factories has increased urbanisation and the size of settlements, to serve and house the factory workers. |
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Temple towns of various sizes began to appear everywhere as India underwent another urbanisation. |
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Most of this demand will be due to the urbanisation and rapid economic growth in Asia. |
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The trade brought urbanisation of the population, including large numbers of migrants from the Highlands and from Ireland. |
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At that time, a few streets led off Woodville Road and Cathays Terrace, but by 1900, the urbanisation of Cathays was virtually completed. |
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Some Narcissus species have become extinct, while others are threatened by increasing urbanisation and tourism. |
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It can tolerate a certain degree of urbanisation, provided the water remains clean. |
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The needs of the new capital led to an explosion both in the urbanisation and in the population within and outside the Aurelian walls. |
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At this time, Aryan society consisted of largely tribal and pastoral groups, distinct from the Harappan urbanisation which had been abandoned. |
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The county's proximity to the cities of Manchester and Liverpool means counter urbanisation is common. |
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Since the mid eighteenth century, Great Britain has gone through industrialisation and increasing urbanisation. |
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In addition to immigration, economic trends such as the green revolution and political developments, among a host of other factors, are also important causes of urbanisation. |
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The enormous growth of industrial production and industrial potential also led to a rapid urbanisation of Germany, which turned the Germans into a nation of city dwellers. |
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We will explore, for example, how Emirati artists respond to and reconcile the rapid urbanisation of their own city with the pre-existent cultural heritage. |
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Increasing urbanisation of India in 7th and 6th centuries BCE led to the rise of new ascetic or shramana movements which challenged the orthodoxy of rituals. |
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As urbanisation increased, and suburbs were built on a scale not seen before, the urban areas surrounding various towns and cities started to cross traditional county borders. |
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Throughout the next century, debates took place about what should be done about local government in respect of the increasing urbanisation of the country. |
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The demography of England has since 1801 been measured by the decennial national census, and is marked by centuries of population growth and urbanisation. |
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During the century, the population increased at a dramatic rate, accompanied by rapid urbanisation, causing significant social and economic stresses. |
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Despite the urbanisation of Cathays there is extensive parkland around the civic centre, including Gorsedd Gardens, Queen Alexandra Gardens, Bute Park and Blackweir. |
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Great Britain also experienced early industrialisation and is subject to continuing urbanisation, which have contributed towards the overall loss of species. |
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With the rapid urbanisation that accompanied the Industrial Revolution, huge swathes of terraced houses had been built to accommodate the factory workers. |
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During the 19th Century, Britain's population increased at a dramatic rate, accompanied by rapid urbanisation, which caused significant social and economic stresses. |
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Nineteenth century urbanisation, industrial revolution and, modernism had already fueled the political left's struggle for democracy and parliamentarism for a long time. |
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Mutton used to be an important part of Hungarian cuisine due to strong pastoral traditions but began to be increasingly looked down on with the spread of urbanisation. |
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The East Moors Steelworks closed in 1978 and Cardiff lost population during the 1980s, consistent with a wider pattern of counter urbanisation in Britain. |
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Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. |
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