Throughout history city walls were made as protection from the enemy. They were usually massive structures, punctuated with guard towers. Some were built on hills, making invasions more difficult, while others
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A suburb of Austin (just 15 miles away), Cedar Park is known for its great schools, higher-than-average household income, and affordable home prices. Aside from its convenient proximity to Austin, its top local employers include major manufacturers like Voltabox, Corvalent, Texas Quarries, and ...
Those seeking a small town with a suburban feel should look no further than this friendly spot bordering Texas and Arkansas. Here you can find something like this 1970s house with a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace and plenty of backyard space for under $300,000. And if you love the great...
To help save its residents money, Georgetown, Texas, signed a 20-year agreement with EDF for 144 MWs of wind power. Then in 2016 the city signed a 150 MW power agreement with SunEdison, taking the city to 100 percent renewable energy. ...
The rapid growth of cities worldwide over the next two decades will cause significant risks to people and the global environment according to analysis.Researches from Yale and Stanford predict that by 2030 urban areas will expand by 590 000 square miles—nearly the size of Mongolia—to meet the...
Shared ride services such as UberPOOL, Uber Express POOL and Lyft Shared Rides, while touted as reducing traffic, in fact add mileage to city streets. Even with these shared services, TNCs put 2.6 new TNC vehicle miles on the road for each mile of personal driving removed, for an overall...
Texas The U.S. Supreme court case of Addington v. Texas set a standard for committing an individual for psychiatric treatment involuntarily. The case raised that the burden of proof for clear and convincing evidence is a requirement to commit a person for psychiatric treatment. [Pictured: A ...
Southern whites and their descendants, by contrast, remained preponderantly rural as migration took them westward across Tennessee and Kentucky to Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. These people inhabited small towns until the industrialization of the South in the 20th century, and they ...
professors Kathryn McCollister and Michael Frenchof the University of Miami and Hai Fang of the University of Colorado Denver to determine the cost of crime to society. Their findings were integrated into the broader data set to better understand the societal cost of crime within individual cities...