The closest BART stations are Lake Merritt, near the exit to the Posey Tube, and Fruitvale, near the Fruitvale Bridge.

San Francisco Bay provided the nation's first wildlife refuge, Oakland's artificial Lake Merritt, constructed in the 1860s, and America's first urban National Wildlife Refuge, the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge ( SFBNWR ) in 1972.

While living at his rented villa on Lake Merritt in Oakland, London met poet George Sterling and in time they became best friends.

In Oakland, they were concentrated around Lake Merritt and Temescal Creek, a stream that enters the San Francisco Bay at Emeryville.

Brooklyn, a large municipality southeast of Lake Merritt, was part of what was then called the Brooklyn Township.

Concurrently, a strong City Beautiful movement, promoted by Mayor Frank Kanning Mott, was responsible for creating and preserving parks and monuments in Oakland, including major improvements to Lake Merritt and the construction of Oakland Civic Auditorium, which cost $ 1M in 1914.

View of Lake Merritt looking southwest from the northeastern tip of the lake

It resulted in redevelopment projects in the Jack London District, where Brown purchased and later sold an industrial warehouse, which he used as a personal residence, and in the Lakeside Apartments District near Lake Merritt, where two infill projects were approved.

At one point, a second encampment was established at Snow Park on Lake Merritt.

The greater divisions in the city include downtown Oakland and its greater Central Business District, Lake Merritt, East Oakland, North Oakland, West Oakland, and the Oakland Hills.

East Oakland, which includes the East Oakland Hills, encompasses more than half of Oakland's land area, stretching from Lakeshore Avenue on the east shore of Lake Merritt southeast to the San Leandro border.

Originally a marsh-lined wildlife haven, Lake Merritt was dredged and bordered with parks from the 1890s to the 1910s.

Lake Merritt is surrounded by residential and business districts, including downtown and Grand Lake.

On April 14, 1985, Evan Merritt, caught a 41 pound Long Nose Gar in Lake Panasoffkee, Florida, this is the largest long nose gar caught in the state of Florida.

In 1928, the orchestra made a series of recordings at Oakland's Scottish Rite Temple on Madison Avenue near Lake Merritt, now the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California.

A downtown site adjacent to Lake Merritt and the Oakland Auditorium ( which itself, many years later, would be renamed the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center ) was also originally considered.

Lake Merritt is a large tidal lagoon that lies just east of downtown Oakland, California.

Trash removal is coordinated by the non-profit Lake Merritt Institute under contract with the City of Oakland.

The current configuration of 12th Street is six lanes in each direction, as an expressway merging and splitting from 14th Street and International on either side, which many consider a detriment to pedestrian and bicycle access to landmarks on the other side, such as Laney College, Oakland Museum of California, Kaiser Convention Center ( closed ) and Lake Merritt Channel.

The Lake Merritt Channel will also be daylighted where it crosses under the east split of 12th Street through a culvert ; the reconfigured 12th Street will have a bridge crossing over the channel.

The renovation of Lake Merritt, paid for with money from Measure DD, has been stalled by an environmental review lawsuit, which was filed in 2006 by a group of concerned residents, " Friends of the Lake ," as well as cost overruns for the project.

On October 17, 2007, an Alameda County Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit intended to prevent cutting trees around Oakland's Lake Merritt, making way for city workers to begin removing the trees in the spring.

Jadavpur University is semi-residential, which at present operates out of two urban campuses: one in Jadavpur () and another in Salt Lake ().

Agricultural and urban runoff from the watershed or drainage basin is the primary source of excess phosphorus, which exacerbates algae blooms in Lake Champlain.

On Toronto's Lake Shore Drive, many were simply bulldozed and the now-valuable urban land used for condominiums and urban development.

Salt Lake City is further situated in a larger urban area known as the Wasatch Front, which has a population of 2, 328, 299.

Congestion is a significant problem in the county, as east-west transportation is restricted by the narrow urban corridor and many of its citizens commute south to Salt Lake County.

In Australia, the short-beaked echidna may be found in many environments, including urban parkland, such as the shores of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, as depicted here.

* runs north along the western edge of the county, staying near Lake Michigan, until bending inland to skirt the St. Joseph / Benton Harbor urban area.

Since then ramp-meters have been systematically deployed in many urban areas including Los Angeles ; San Diego ; Sacramento ; the San Francisco Bay Area ; Fresno ; Seattle ; Denver ; Phoenix ; Las Vegas ; Salt Lake City ; Portland ; Minneapolis-St. Paul ; Milwaukee ; Columbus ; Cincinnati ; Houston ; Atlanta ; Miami ; Washington, DC ( only along Interstate 395 and Interstate 66 in Arlington County, Virginia ); Kansas City, Missouri ; and along the Queen Elizabeth Way in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

It is situated near Noosa Heads between the Pacific Ocean and the Sunshine Coasts's northern area of urban development and extends southwards, past Lake Weyba to Coolum.

Due to the lack of the urban heat island effect, Crystal Lake experiences colder nights and lower precipitation than recorded at Chicago.

With another name change in 1977, to primarily disassociate itself from the urban decay and crime of Gary, the city reverted to its more historical designation of Lake Station.

An area on the east side of Morrison Lake in the Coldwater River is considered to be part of the Coldwater urban area, although it remains unincorporated.

Surrounding the shores of Lower and Upper Prior Lake, the city lies south of the Minnesota River in an area known as South of the River and establishes the urban fringe of the south-southwest portion of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the sixteenth largest metropolitan area in the United States.

The census-designated place of Arnold is located entirely within Rice Lake Township, adjacent to the north side of the city of Duluth, and is considered to be a part of the urban area.

The contiguous urban area, or locality of Rättvik lies on Lake Siljan, and had 4, 588 inhabitants in 2005 ;< ref name = scb > it is widely known for its old tradition of folkmusic and the beauty of the surroundings close to Lake Siljan ; it is included on many tours of Sweden as an example of a traditional Swedish and Scandinavian way of living.

While Oak Point, positioned on a scenic Lewisville Lake peninsula, provides a tranquil setting away from the pressures of a more urban environment, Oak Point is located just from the Dallas North Tollway, from Interstate 35E, and from the Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport.

Swift concluded that “ suspended inorganic sediments and phytoplanktonic algae both contribute significantly to the reduction in clarity, and that suspended particulate matter, rather than dissolved organic matter, are the dominant causes of clarity loss .” The largest source of fine sediment particles to Lake Tahoe is urban stormwater runoff, comprising 72 percent of the total fine sediment particle load.

This data set, together with more recently acquired data on urban runoff water quality, is being used by the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board to develop a program ( mandated by the Clean Water Act ) to limit the flux of nutrients and fine sediment to the Lake.

The Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge spans the Lady Bird Lake and is home to North America's largest urban colony of Mexican Free-tailed Bats, with a summer population of 1. 5 million bats.

The program will be carried out by the Municipal Department of Management and Strategic Support and will focus on: Improving water quality in Guaíba Lake and the Cavalhada River ; Developing urban infrastructure to reduce flood risk along the Cavalhada River ; Improving the environmental management in the Municipality of Porto Alegre ; and Promoting efficient municipal water, sanitation and storm drainage services.

This program will improve the quality of life of the population of Porto Alegre by restoring water quality along the west side of Lake Guaíba and directly benefitting more than 700, 000 residents through expanded public sanitation services and urban environmental improvement.