City-county consolidation is advanced as a good government reform to promote efficiency, equity, and accountability and, more recently, to reduce growing disparities between central cities and suburbs. Whether these objectives are realized is more doubtful than the fact that local reorganization embodies...
the canine closed in fast. In just a few seconds, it stood on its hind legs and pawed my chest and knees with such a strong force that I almost lost my balance on the side of a newly paved rural path.
000 limit on deducting state and local taxes on a taxpayer’s federal return imposed by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office estimates that this new limit will cost 1.7 million of the state’s taxpayers, primarily in New York City and its surrounding subu...
city?shistoryallaroundyou,fromthetraditional Doricaccentoflocalresidents(居民)tothebeautifulgranite(花岗岩)buildingsalongthestreets. Impressivearchitecture Aberdeenis well-knownallovertheglobe becauseofitsgranitebuildingsandmonuments. Tothenorthofthecitycenter,thestonestreets andhistoricuniversitybuildingsofOldAberdeen ...
解决城市植被缺乏的方法 T he relentless spread of buildings and roads turns urban areas into heat islands, discomforting residents and exacerbating dangerous heatwaves,which are in any case likely to become more frequent as the planet warms.2 A possible answer to the problem of heat is trees....
Memphis, the largest city in the state of Tennessee, and its surrounding suburbs depend on a confined aquifer, the Memphis aquifer, for drinking water. ... Jeannie R.B. Barlow,James A. Kingsbury,Richard H. Coupe - 《Jawra Journal of the American Water Resources Association》 被引量: 8发表...
Andresen (2010) calculated that some Vancouver suburbs double their daily population, while others lose half of their population due to daily routines; these plusses and minuses affect crime risks. For the city of Ottawa, Larue and Andresen (2015) linked vehicle theft and burglary risks to ...
Study area and data sources Taiyuan is located in the central part of Shanxi Province in China. The city is surrounded by mountains in the east, west and north. The terrain is high in the north but low in the south. Its urban area contains six districts, namely Yingze District, Xinghual...
Parma, a city on the other side of the Cuyahoga River — which bisects Cleveland both geographically and transcendentally — was on the precipice of a wild population sprout in ’49. The city’s neat rows of modest houses still speak to the enthusiasm of its post-war suburban sprawl. In...
During the SPCC, the temperature changes in the urban areas and their surrounding suburbs should be monitored. The temperature monitoring data before and after the SPCC should cover the average daily temperatures from June to September for at least the recent 5 years and 1 year, respectively. Onl...