And if the affection for the suburban branch reflects a desire to shop with `` nice people '', rather than with the indiscriminate urban mass which supports the downtown department store, the central location may be in serious trouble.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

The urban grid was based on the usual central north-south road ( cardo ) and central east-west route ( decumanus ).

Rother has a policy of urban expansion in the area immediately north of Bexhill, but this requires infrastructure improvements by central Governments which have been under discussion for decades.

The company continued its urban focus with the Society Hill project in central Philadelphia.

Central party control is tightest in central government offices and in urban economic, industrial, and cultural settings ; it is considerably looser over government and party organizations in rural areas, where the majority of China's people live.

In determining which areas are considered " urban " and which are " suburban ", the national statistical agency, Statistics Canada, has examined a number of potential methods for drawing the distinction, including municipal boundaries, age of the housing stock, distance from city hall or the central business district, and housing ( but not population ) density.

The GPP was based on the " accumulation of forces in silence ": while the urban organization recruited on the university campuses and collected funds through bank holdups, the main cadres were to go permanently to the north central mountain zone.

Paved roads link the major urban and industrial centers, and rail lines managed by the National Railways of Zimbabwe tie it into an extensive central African railroad network with all its neighbours.

Some urban central office MDFs are two stories high so they don't have to be more than a city block long.

Leopards in west and central Asia avoid deserts, areas with long-duration snow cover and areas that are near urban development.

A few medieval cities were admired for their wide thoroughfares and orderly arrangements, but the juridical chaos of medieval cities ( where the administration of streets was sometimes passed down through noble families ), and the characteristic tenacity of medieval Europeans in legal matters prevented frequent or large-scale urban planning until the Renaissance and the early-modern strengthening of central government administration, as European society transited from city-states to what we would recognize as a more modern concept of a nation-state.

During the 1970s and 1980s, urban decay was often associated with central areas of cities in North America and Europe.

This pattern was different than the pattern of " outlying slums " and " suburban ghettos " found in many cities outside of North America and Western Europe, where central urban areas actually had higher real estate values.

Starting in the 1990s, many of the central urban areas in North America have been experiencing a reversal of the urban decay, with rising real estate values, smarter development, demolition of obsolete social housing and a wider variety of housing choices.

Viet Nam ’ s road system includes: national roads administered by the central level ; provincial roads managed by the provincial level, district roads managed by the district level, urban roads managed by cities and towns: and commune roads managed by the commune level.

However, the overall responsibility to formulate strategies and policies for human settlement in the country rests with the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement of the central government, as the nodal agency, with its subordinate Department of Urban Development and Engineering Services made responsible for executing urban water supply and sanitation programmes.

The plan included in its wide ranging remit: population changes, employment, housing, pollution, transport, roads, the central area, growth and development areas, urban open spaces and the urban landscape, public services and utilities and planning standards.

By the 10th century, many of Paris's parish cemeteries were well within city limits, and eventually some, because of their central location in dense urban growth, were unable to expand and became overcrowded.

* The Plains: Heartland of Álava comprising Vitoria and Salvatierra-Agurain, with a central urban area and crop landscape prevailing around and bounded south and north by the Basque Mountains.

CBSAs are delineated on the basis of a central urban area or urban cluster — a contiguous area of relatively high population density.

The best protection would be on the ground floor in the central part of the house.

You can install it yourself -- this is a central system that will cool every part of your house.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

By making comparisons across cultural traditions ( time-based ) and cultural regions ( space-based ), anthropologists have developed various kinds of comparative method, a central part of their science.

This is crossed by foot-hills and rolling prairies in the central part of the state, where it has a mean elevation of about, becomes lower and more level toward the southwest, and in the extreme south is flat and but slightly elevated above the sea.

The central part, which reaches the last floor, is a multicolored section with protruding balconies.

The central part of the facade evokes the surface of a lake with water lilies, reminiscent of Monet's Nymphéas, with gentle ripples and reflections caused by the glass and ceramic mosaic.

Finally, above the central part of the facade is a smaller balcony, also iron, with a different exterior aesthetic, closer to a local type of lily.

The Berber peoples of the Maghreb in the early Middle Ages could be roughly classified into three major groups-the Zenata across the north, the Masmuda concentrated in central Morocco and the Sanhaja, clustered in two areas-the western part of the Sahara and the hills of the eastern Maghreb.

In the historical period, the Achaeans were the inhabitants of the region of Achaea, a region in the north central part of the Peloponnese.

Many letters look similar but are distinguished from one another by dots () above or below their central part, called.

Within the valley itself are two " major " rivers, the Annapolis River which flows west from the Caribou Bog in the central part of the valley into the Annapolis Basin, and the Cornwallis River which flows east from Caribou Bog into the Minas Basin.

The Archbishop of Canterbury plays a central part in national ceremonies such as coronations ; due to his high public profile, his opinions are often in demand by the news media.

The French physicist Pierre Victor Auger also discovered it in 1923 upon analysis of a Wilson cloud chamber experiment and it became the central part of his PhD work.

Abakan (; Khakas: Ағбан ) is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers.

The central part of Berlin can be traced back to two towns.

The major cities are the capital Sarajevo, Banja Luka in the northwest region known as Bosanska Krajina, Bijeljina and Tuzla in the northeast, Zenica and Doboj in the central part of Bosnia and Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina.

The Vrbas flows through the central part of Bosnia and flows outwards to the North.

* most of the north and central region of the country is part of the Okavango inland drainage basin ;

* Cymbal bell, the most central part of a cymbal

This formula describes the central tendency, but every family of mammals departs from it to some degree, in a way that reflects in part the complexity of their behavior.

Banca d ' Italia ( Italian for Bank of Italy ) is the central bank of Italy and part of the European System of Central Banks.

The Book of Revelation, often simply known as Revelation or by a number of variants expanding upon its authorship or subject matter, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central part in Christian eschatology.

She plays a central role in the first part of G. A. Henty's novel Beric the Briton and in a children's novel by Henry Treece.

For liturgy they looked to Laud's book and in 1724 the first of the ' Wee Bookies ' was published, containing, for the sake of economy, the central part of the Communion beginning with the Offertory.