* Urban exploration, an activity similar to caving, but done in urban areas

Smaller areas of woodland in cities may be managed as Urban forestry, sometimes within public parks.

Urban planning of the Hobart CBD in particular the Heritage listed areas such as Sullivans Cove are also intensely scrutinised by State Government, which is operated out of Parliament House on the waterfront.

Urban and migratory workers have adopted Western ways, but in rural areas, traditional society remains intact.

Urban breweries usually import water from other areas, because of the difficulty of getting water of sufficient quality locally.

Thessaloniki's Thessaloniki Urban Area | urban and Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area | metropolitan areas as of 2011.

* The 1976 Act for the Promotion of Urban Development and the 1977 Housing Modernisation Act, which ( together with the 1971 Act for the Promotion of Urban Development passed by the Brandt Administration ) by the end of the Seventies had enabled most West German cities to introduce programmes aimed at renovating their pre-war residential areas.

It was adopted as a theoretical framework for analyzing redevelopment processes in large urban distressed areas in European cities ( see “ LUDA: Improving quality of life in Large Urban Distressed Areas ” project – Research funded by the European Commission, EVK4-CT2002-00081 ).

Related to zoning ordinances, an Urban Growth Boundary ( UGB ) is a tool that several U. S. cities now use to contain high density development to certain areas.

This plan would as one of it components include a Spatial Development Framework plan which would normally, certainly for the larger metropolitan areas, indicate an Urban Edge beyond which urban type development would be severely limited or restricted.

The First Wilson Government made assistance to deprived urban communities a specific policy of national government in 1969 with the passage of the Local Government Grants ( Social Need ) Act, which empowered the Home Secretary to dispense grants to assist local authorities in providing extra help to areas “ of special social need .” The Urban Aid Programme was subsequently launched to provide community and family advice centres, centres for the elderly, money for schools and other services, thereby alleviating urban deprivation.

Urban areas are also far more prone to violence, drugs, and other urban social problems.

For example, Eric Hobsbawm's book The age of revolution: 1789 – 1848 ( published 1962 and 2005 ) chapter 11, stated " Urban development in our period was a gigantic process of class segregation, which pushed the new labouring poor into great morasses of misery outside the centres of government and business and the newly specialised residential areas of the bourgeoisie.

* The Urban Program focuses on environmental issues in urban centers and surrounding areas.

Urban minority communities may face environmental racism in the form of parks that are smaller, less accessible and of poorer quality than those in more affluent or white areas in some cities.

Urban areas are experiencing rapid population growth since the Karzai administration began in late 2001, which is mainly due to the return of over 5 million expats.

FEMA's emergency response is based on small, decentralized teams trained in such areas as the National Disaster Medical System ( NDMS ), Urban Search and Rescue ( USAR ), Disaster Mortuary Operations Response Team ( DMORT ), Disaster Medical Assistance Team ( DMAT ), and Mobile Emergency Resource Support ( MERS ).

Other areas of specialization include such roles as tactical paramedics working in police units, marine paramedics, hazardous materials ( Hazmat ) teams, Heavy Urban Search and Rescue, and paramedics on offshore oil platforms, oil and mineral exploration teams, and in the military.

* Natural Growth Rate: + 0. 11 % per year (+ 0. 01 % in Urban areas & + 0. 34 % in Rural areas ).

Urban areas had grown beyond their capacities to sustain themselves.

Birth rate was recorded at 11. 6 for 2007 ( 11. 1 for Urban areas and 13. 8 for Rural areas ) per 1000 people.

* Hee Haw Honky Tonk: When the Urban Cowboy craze was in full swing, Hee Haw had its honky tonk, where all the cast would throw out their one liners.

As a so-called " bleeding-heart conservative ", Kemp was a logical choice for Bush as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, whose job would be to foster public sector and private sector methods to meet the demands of public housing.

After the death of Pope Urban VII on 27 September 1590, the Spanish ambassador Olivares presented the conclave a list of the seven cardinals who would be acceptable to his master Philip II of Spain.

For two years Urban IV negotiated with Manfred regarding whether Manfred would aid the Latins in regaining Constantinople in return for papal confirmation of the Hohenstaufen rights in the realm.

Urban replies that forgiveness is as impossible as it would be for his papal staff to blossom.

Five months after his election, the French cardinals met at Anagni, inviting Urban, who realized that he would be seized and perhaps slain.

Urban VIII issued a 1624 papal bull that made the use of tobacco in holy places punishable by excommunication ; Pope Benedict XIII would later repeal the ban.

These schemes would attempt to put into practice many of the findings Koolhaas made in his book Delirious New York ( 1978 ), which was written while he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, directed by Peter Eisenman.

Urban replies that forgiveness is as impossible as it would be for his papal staff to blossom.

Although some critics would say that contemporary Czech literature ( since 1989 ) is relatively marginalised in comparison with Czech film-making, writers such as Petr Šabach, Ivan Martin Jirous, Jáchym Topol, Miloš Urban, Patrik Ouředník, and Petra Hůlová are public figures and sell books in large numbers.

Many in the Congress felt the Secretary of Homeland Security should have been placed higher in the order – the rationale being that, as the officer responsible for disaster relief and security, the Secretary would be more capable of acting as President than, say, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

During the time of the Roman Republic the Urban Praetor allegedly issued an annual edict, usually on the advice of jurists ( since the Praetor himself was not necessarily educated in the law ), setting out the circumstances under which he would grant remedies.

Hector Ceballos-Lascurain popularized ( and he would say coined ) the term ' ecotourism ' in July 1983, when he was performing the dual role of Director General of Standards and Technology of SEDUE ( the Mexican Ministry of Urban Development and Ecology ) and founding president of PRONATURA ( an influential Mexican conservationist NGO ).

Urban spread of south London, and surrounding villages growing into towns, had by now enclosed Croydon Airport and left it with no room for further expansion, and it would soon be too small to meet evident travel demands.

Despite this popular enthusiasm, however, Urban ensured that there would be an army of knights, drawn from the French aristocracy.

Others soon followed: James Lake ; Pleasant Green Taylor, who settled on the Urban Stewart claim ; David Jenkins, who put up a small house on the south portion of Stewart's claim ; William W. Dixon, who settled by a small creek that would bear his name ; Stephen Ordway ; Luman A. Shurtleff ; and others.

The Rothwell Urban District had a total population of around 25, 000, but if it still existed today, that figure would be closer to 30, 000.

" Urban Struggle " depicts the constant fighting that would occur in the early 1980s Los Angeles / Orange County music scene between the punk rock fans who congregated at a Costa Mesa, California club called the Cuckoo's Nest and the country music fans who gathered at nearby Zuby's.

Urban Terror started out in 1998 as a planned mappack for Quake III Arena, in which real world environments would be featured.

The First Complete Documentation of the Facts behind the Legend, are assuming that a more plausible time-frame would be 1086 – 1108, when there were a lot of antipopes, and the reign of the legitimate popes Victor III, Urban II and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since this city was occupied by Emperor Henry IV, and later sacked by the Normans.

In 1993, during the bitter confirmation battle over Roberta Achtenberg, a lesbian, as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Pell stated that his daughter was a lesbian, and that he hoped that it would not be a barrier to federal employment for her ; Achtenberg became the first openly gay person to be confirmed by the U. S. Senate.