One of the reasons for the high percentage of Jewish teen-agers in college is that a great many urban Jews are enabled to attend local colleges at modest cost.

The urban areas of Canberra are organised into a hierarchy of districts, town centres, group centres, local suburbs as well as other industrial areas and villages.

The local public transport organisation, Transports en Commun d ' Ajaccio ( Ajaccio public transport ) provides 8 urban routes, 4 " citadines "

Cities of Late Antiquity underwent transformations as the urban power base shrank and was transferred to the local bishop ( see Late Roman Empire ).

He also stressed that attention should be given to local, urban and folkloric sources regarding such creatures, arguing that while often layered in unlikely and fantastic elements, folktales can have small grains of truth and important information regarding undiscovered organisms.

An account of a design studio conducted with Berkeley students, it shows how convincing urban networks can be generated by requiring individual actors to respect only local rules, in relation to neighbours.

Most local residents are urban dwellers ; the remainder are pastoralists.

The City of Dublin is the area administered by Dublin City Council, but the term " Dublin " normally refers to the contiguous urban area which includes parts of the adjacent local authority areas of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin.

Her paintings are often of flower designs above shops and stores in her local urban area of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Each local government services all the suburbs that are within its geographical boundaries and are responsible for their own urban area, up to a certain scale, and residential planning as well as waste management and mains water storage.

In times of asymmetrical warfare, local crises, and urban combat, the IFV is more important than ever.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

According to the United States scholar Nicholas Eberstadt and demographer Judith Banister, vital statistics and personal information on residents are kept by agencies on the ri, or ni (,: village, the local administrative unit ) level in rural areas and the dong (,: district or block ) level in urban areas.

Recent studies ( 2006 ) substantiate that smoke from urban firestorms in a local nuclear war would lead to long lasting global cooling but in a less dramatic manner than a global nuclear war, while a 2007 study of the effects of global nuclear war supported the conclusion that it would lead to full-scale nuclear winter.

The royal courts operated alongside and in competition with ecclesiastic, manorial, urban, mercantile, and local courts.

In the 1970s, squatting in West German cities led to " a self-confident urban counterculture with its own infrastructure of newspapers, self-managed collectives and housing cooperatives, feminist groups, and so on, which was prepared to intervene in local and broader politics ".

Its place in small rural communities, for example, when it establishes itself in a local church hall, and absorbs substantial numbers of the population, is very different from its situation in large urban centres, where its presence is marginalised by other social and economic activities.

Many, but not all, of the activities associated with urban exploration could violate local or regional laws and certain broadly-interpreted anti-terrorism laws or be considered trespassing or invasion of privacy.

The local government attempt to shut the night markets down in this year, but with the decline of the government's authority by the mid 9th century, this edict ( like many others ) is largely ignored as urban dwellers keep attending the night markets regardless.

In 1965 and 1974 – 1975, a major re-organisation of local government created in England and Wales several new administrative counties such as Hereford and Worcester and also created several new metropolitan counties which served large urban areas as a single administrative unit.

* Development and operation of the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center ( NARAC ), which provides real-time, multi-scale ( global, regional, local, urban ) modeling of hazardous materials released into the atmosphere.

The most populous and prosperous urban center in this new county was George Town, but its location at the far southern edge rendered it worthless as a seat of local government.

The Spanish sent viceroys to Naples to directly deal with local issues: the most important of which was Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, who was responsible for considerable social, economic and urban progress in the city ; he also supported the Inquisition.

Regardless, all successful urban planning considers urban character, local identity, respects heritage, pedestrians, traffic, utilities and natural hazards.

* The White Lady is a type of female ghost reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy.

It became an object of local folklore and legend.

According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

* Dartmoor prison is implicated in the local Dartmoor ' Hairy hands ' ghost story / legend.

According to local legend, Joseph of Arimathea landed here with the child Christ.

Nevertheless, instances in legend of humans reincarnated as wolves are often classed with lycanthropy, as well as these instances being labeled werewolves in local folklore.

* Thilo of Trotha, bishop, known through the local legend of the raven

Among the Nevisians recorded were chantey-singing fishermen in a session organised in a rum shop in Newcastle ; Santoy, the Calypsonian, performing calypsos by Nevisian ballader and local legend Charles Walters to guitar and cuatro ; and string bands, fife players and drummers from Gingerland, performing quadrilles.

It contains many of the elements still associated with the legend, from the Nottingham setting to the bitter enmity between Robin and the local sheriff.

This debate is hardly surprising of course, given the considerable value that the Robin Hood legend has for local tourism.

According to local legend, many of them settled there.

However, despite the prevalence of the legend and the local assertion of its truth, no concrete evidence exists to substantiate the claim.

* The Trevelyan family of Cornwall takes its coat of arms from a local legend, in which a man named Trevelyan escaped the innundation by riding a white horse.

Set into the pavement of Fore Street is the ' Brutus Stone ', a small granite boulder onto which, according to local legend, Brutus first stepped from his ship.

Man seems to have inhabited the island already in 5000 BC, though a local legend gives the eponymous name " Liparus " to the leader of a people coming from Campania.

According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear.

The legend says that his sister was asked for, and a marriage alliance sought with the local Berber leader.

From the moment a legend is retold as fiction its authentic legendary qualities begin to fade and recede: in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving transformed a local Hudson River Valley legend into a literary anecdote with " Gothic " overtones, which actually tended to diminish its character as genuine legend.

According to local legend, the location of this monastery is the holy place where Avalokiteshvara revealed himself as " the self-emanated form of the Wrathful Hayagriva ".

* ~ 400 AD The Chinese Silk Road city-state of Niya was abandoned rapidly, perhaps because of a sandstorm, as local legend would suggest.

Some historians have suggested that Sánchez built his account on an indigenous oral tradition local to the area, a variant of the earlier legend of the appearance of the Virgin of Los Remedios.

Its habit of producing a circle of white epicormic leaves on the bole every spring gave rise to a local legend.

In putting together the story he was heavily influenced by the folklore and landscape of the neighbouring Alderley Edge where he had grown up as a child, taking the local legend of " The Wizard Under the Hill " as a partial basis for the novel's plot.