One social-class factor which plays a large part in educational policy today is the fact that a great many school and college teachers are upward mobile from urban lower-class and lower-middle-class families.

Hughes supported Gov. Meyner's `` Green Acres '' plan for saving large tracts of open land from the onrush of urban development.

Dozens of large cities and hundreds of towns reflect pronounced urban character of the Arab world ; in most of the countries about 70 percent of people are urban dwellers.

The urban center lies in the middle of the " Golden Triangle " between Zurich, Bern, and Basel, and Aarau is having increasing difficulty in maintaining the independence of its economic base from the neighboring large cities.

It is typically practiced on large natural boulders or artificial boulders in gyms and outdoor urban areas.

Some cities had large dense populations, whereas others carried out urban activities in the realms of politics or religion without having large associated populations.

* Public access, using large numbers of base stations to provide high capacity building or urban area coverage as part of a public telecoms network.

American fallout shelters in the early 1960s were sometimes funded in conjunction with funding for other federal programs, such as urban renewal projects of the Federal Housing Authority, examples being Barrington Plaza, and other development projects of Los Angeles County Civil Defense and Disaster Commissioner, Louis Lesser, and were designed for large numbers of citizens.

Because Finland was a country with relatively small towns with a small workforce, and many industrial centers were small " islands " surrounded by large rural areas, there was social integrity between the urban and rural workers.

It was Finland's first large scale urban battle, and, along with the battles of Helsinki and Viipuri, one of the three decisive military engagements of the 1918 war.

Much of the agricultural workforce was uprooted from the countryside and moved into large urban centres of production, as the steam-based production factories could undercut the traditional cottage industries, because of economies of scale and the increased output per worker made possible by the new technologies.

Some urban centres, for example Canterbury, Cirencester, Wroxeter, Winchester and Gloucester, remained active during the 5th and 6th centuries, surrounded by large farming estates.

As school consolidation became more common and as more rural residents migrated to cities making large high schools grow even larger, smaller high schools had only a mismatch to look forward to come tournament time, as success concentrated in Indiana's large urban and suburban schools.

During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Flanders was characterised by the presence of large urban centres (...) at the beginning of the nineteenth century this region ( Flanders ), with an urbanisation degree of more than 30 per cent, remained one of the most urbanised in the world.

Nevertheless, industrialisation remained quite traditional in the sense that it did not lead to the growth of modern and large urban centres, but to a conurbation of industrial villages and towns developed around a coal-mine or a factory.

Kenya's very rapid population growth rate and considerable rural to urban migration were in large part responsible for high unemployment and disorder in the cities.

For a number of years French officials had been unsuccessful in dealing with the squalor of the growing Parisian slums, and Le Corbusier sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.

These cities have large seasonal populations that arrive from the nearby urban areas such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids and Detroit, as well as from Southern states, such as Florida and Texas.

These large mosques in urban centers are supposed to serve as community and social centers for a large group of Muslims that occupy the region.

This area of rolling hills is thus located on the western edge of the Indus valley, where, around 2500 BCE, a large urban civilization emerged at the same time as those of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Egypt.

They were initially gathered into massive urban ghettos, such as 380, 000 held in the Warsaw Ghetto, where large numbers died under the harsh conditions therein, including 43, 000 in the Warsaw Ghetto alone.

Other types of crannogs simply saw the occupants add large stones to the waterline of small natural islets, extending and enlarging them over successive phases of renewal.

A renewal of popular liberation activities took place in 1860-1861 ; during the large scale demonstrations in Warsaw the Russian forces inflicted numerous casualties on the civilian participants.

Many major city downtowns ( such as Downtown Miami, Downtown Detroit, or Downtown Los Angeles ) are experiencing a renewal, with large population growth, residential apartment construction, and increased social, cultural, and infrastructural investments.

The urban renewal process, which includes the reconstruction of the area around the Neumarkt square on which the Frauenkirche is situated, will continue for many decades, but public and government interest remains high, and there are numerous large projects underway — both historic reconstructions and modern plans — that will continue the city's recent architectural renaissance.

More significantly, under the guise of " urban renewal ", large tracts of downtown Lawrence were razed in the mid-1970s and replaced with parking lots and a three-story parking garage connected to a new Intown Mall intended to compete with newly constructed suburban malls.

In recent years, a large part of the town centre has undergone a full urban renewal.

A large swath of River Street, known as the Barbary Coast for its taverns and boarding houses ( which had been home for many dockworkers, sailors, merchant marines, and other seamen ) was leveled as part of an urban renewal project.

In the 1960s Las Cruces undertook a large urban renewal project, intended to convert the old downtown into a modern city-center.

This is because in the 1960s a large urban renewal project tore down a large part of the original downtown.

( This was actually part of an urban renewal project that removed a large part of " Old " Downtown Las Cruces.

Despite its intent of ameliorating the ravages of war the inception of the First Geneva Convention inaugurated " a renewal of military activity on a large scale, to which the people of western Europe … had not been accustomed since the first Napoleon had been eliminated.

In Glasgow, where Scotland's highest concentration of tenement dwellings can be found, the urban renewal projects of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s brought an end to the city's slums, which had primarily consisted of older tenements built in the early 19th century in which large extended families would live together in cramped conditions.

Melbourne Docklands urban renewal project, a transformation of a large disused docks into a new residential and commercial precinct for 25, 000 people

This program began the large public housing projects that later became one of the hallmarks of urban renewal in the United States: it provided funding to local governments to build new public housing, but required that slum housing be demolished prior to any construction.

Later Roman London experienced urban renewal in many areas and remained an important centre, though it was no longer a large port or centre of trade.

Sia proper, which survives today as the Dioulasoba neighborhood, was partly spared this total destruction but nonetheless modified by a large artery pierced through it in 1939 and the widening of the streets in successive urban renewal projects.

As a university in the downtown of a large urban centre, the University of Winnipeg is playing a significant role in the downtown renewal.

In the early 1960s, in an urban renewal project later considered a mistake by most analysts, a large portion of central Tremé was torn down.

Oakar's high placement on these committees allowed her to bring home to Cleveland large sums of money for urban renewal.

In the same period, the City razed large portions of Strathcona under the aegis of urban renewal.

The West End of Washington, DC-home to the Westin Georgetown, Washington D. C., the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Residences, the Park Hyatt and Fairmont hotels, numerous luxury condominiums, and several of the city's finest restaurants-exists due in large part to a 1972 urban renewal plan prepared by the District's Office of Planning and Management, designed " to bring life to a declining part of the city.

In the United States, early government policies included " urban renewal " and building of large scale housing projects for the poor.