urban infrastructure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofurbanandinfrastructure
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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈɜː.bən/us/ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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infrastructure
noun[C usually singular]
uk/ˈɪn.frəˌstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈɪn.frəˌstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to ...
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(Definition ofurbanandinfrastructurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofurban infrastructure
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The choice has been over-subjective and probably too heavily focused on health, disease, medicine, demography,urbaninfrastructureand public utilities.
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Rather, it is associated with a growth in public goods related tourbaninfrastructureand public health.
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Instead, the game was part of a business relationship between a capitalist and the city government, which harnessed existing tastes, finance capital andurbaninfrastructure.
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However, the large-scale investment inurbaninfrastructure, not least the highly innovative new dock necessary for this growth, was accomplished between 1695 and 1715.
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Improving economic conditions in the late 1940s eased the pressure onurbaninfrastructureand perhaps encouraged this tendency.
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This does not just apply to monuments or primary objects, but also tourbaninfrastructure.
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This has been a good year for those concerned with the history ofurbaninfrastructureand transport.
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Indeed, these shortcomings actually discouraged public debate as successive municipal councils strove to downplay their failure to improve theurbaninfrastructure.
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Manufacturing was not only spatially and physically integrated into theurbaninfrastructure, but also, and perhaps even more importantly, there was a synthesis of purpose between civic and commercial promotion.
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The concern with rural-urban migration has become all the more acute sinceurbaninfrastructureis overextended, and can no longer absorb the new migrants and their families.
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Public services, a very importanturbaninfrastructure, experienced remarkable growth.
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Second was the level of rates needed to provide modernurbaninfrastructureand services such as public transport and education.
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Moreover, local government initiatives must actively pursue partnership between the public and private sectors and implement innovative strategies for the development ofurbaninfrastructure.
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A major opportunity to promoteurbaninfrastructureand regeneration is being squandered.
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I believe that the humanity in our planning and development of urban areas are all ultimately more important than the simple and more obvious functional operation of theurbaninfrastructure.
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Many oil-related projects require to be sited in areas which satisfy certain criteria—good transportation facilities, housing, availability of labour, easy access to the sea and a developedurbaninfrastructure.
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The program encompassed the historic zone, transportation routes, tourism, and improvements to theurbaninfrastructure.
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By overlaying art, public access, sewage treatment, habitat restorations, and agriculture, she embedded majorurbaninfrastructurewithin living nature.
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The development program encompassed such sectors as irrigation, hydraulic energy, agriculture, rural andurbaninfrastructure, forestry, education and health.
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The popularity of the car also had a dramatic impact onurbaninfrastructureand roads in particular.
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