Living in the city is really different to living in the country.

I've lived in 27 different towns.

He is still not accustomed to city life.

I've always lived there. I didn't like the cities

So, if you like, the whole spiritual and physical life of these cities was dominated by the grain and the harvest that sustained them.

I am tired of city life.

It's part of the social life of the city.

So I think emotion is a dimension that is important to introduce into city space, into city life.

What's new about this way of urban living?

So the event is we're a city planet. That just happened.

Not all rural areas are yet electrified.

Urban poor improving the lives of slum dwellers

But it could've been anywhere in the city, because more than half the city of Nairobi lives like this.

We are moving to cities. We are moving up in the world.

Improving livelihoods in an urbanizing world

After the townbred variety.

I hear this is a real swinging town.

Seminal research was undertaken in analysing urban economic conditions, rural urban linkages and effective strategies for improving urban self employment and livelihood for the urban poor.

He says it's best not to think of such places and the wickedness there.

But in an urbanizing world, where poverty was also urbanizing, most slum dwellers were excluded from the so called good city life .

34. Consequently, a high percentage of the population living in the cities and or having migrated from rural areas created their own jobs, giving rise to a significant sector known as the self employed, unstructured or informal urban sector.

As the level of urbanization in China continues to increase, the urban population has increased rapidly, and a large number of rural young people have left their hometowns to start urban life.

In 1980, 73 of the total population lived in the agricultural areas while the remainder lived in the 12 cities considered urban areas.

Through the Cities Alliance Programme the environmental component will be strengthened in city development activities and urban poverty reduction strategy papers.

We will have games. The people of the city will be fed.

Considering the level of progress achieved in the process of integrating municipal services and community life in both municipalities, the High Representative amended the municipality's statutes.

The contribution of UNIDO to implementation of the Habitat Agenda includes working with policy makers, city mayors and planners and the private sector to enhance the productivity of cities and improve the quality of urban life.

And the reason why is that we live on a planet that is rapidly urbanizing.

A very high percentage of the Israeli population lives in urban localities 91.5 .

Communicating Urban Water Preconditions for a Sustainable Everyday Life

And it was a beautiful urban day, and the incredible thing about it was that the city was working.

With 37 per cent of its population already living in cities, Africa's urbanization rate would be approximately 48 per cent by 2015.

New cities have joined the Programme from Asia (two), Africa (four), Latin America (four), and Arab States (two).

It's providing 1,500 households with the option of a more urban lifestyle.

Progress was made towards monitoring and promoting understanding of urban economic conditions and rural urban linkages, as well as monitoring and developing strategies and frameworks for improving urban self employment and livelihood for the urban poor.

In the decades to come, 75 percent of the world's population will live in cities, and 50 of those cities will be of 10 million people or more.

In 1980, the population considered urban, that is, living in the cities, was estimated at of 1.5 million inhabitants in other words, it was 13.2 , against 86.8 of the population living in agricultural areas.

Over time, urbanization was unavoidable as cities remained the centre of economic growth and attracted people searching for better living conditions.

Why don't we live in a nice comfortable city? Other people do.

More than half of the world's population now lived in urban areas and their lifestyles and consumption patterns had a major impact on the environment.

So I look up a person I can look up then the city where they were born then I can look up the region it's in, and the town it's in, and the population of it, and so on.

The urban population is expected to grow from 2.86 billion in 2000 to 4.68 billion in 2030, when some 60 per cent of the world's population will live in cities.

None of the rural areas in Lebanon were particularly remote, and there was no great distinction between rural life and urban life.

Some 80 per cent of the world's urban population lived in developing countries, of which one billion were poor and lived in informal settlements.

I started to realize that I could look at the whole city as a living organism.