Cars are indispensable to suburban life.

You can call it suburban sprawl.

They have urban streetscapes, but suburban parking ratios.

The forested hills became a sprawling suburban community.

And this isn't some suburban iPhone using teen phenomenon.

No, forget about those suburban restaurants you've been testing.

In Japan, almost 90 of municipalities have made a nuclear free declaration,

Over 50 of the Japanese municipalities are considering to implement it too.

The National Council of Japan Nuclear Free Local Authorities, comprising of these municipalities,

It can envy many municipalities, the color, the taste, the purity of this water.

Well, there, there are good statistics, because many municipalities recorded the cause of death.

Agriculture uses 60 times more land than urban and suburban areas combined.

Here is another pretty typical scene. This is a suburban Las Vegas neighborhood.

Suburban sprawl encourages people to drive many miles to work, school and stores.

Smart infrastructure can provide cost saving ways for municipalities to handle both infrastructure and social needs.

There's also a burgeoning suburban farming movement sort of victory gardens meets the Internet.

It travels on rails down a suburban road, and the cars travel underneath it.

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And then you finally get squatter homes like this, which is built on the suburban model.

Researchers at the CDC and other places have increasingly been linking suburban development patterns with sedentary lifestyles.

This is an ordinary suburban house, and this is the owner of the property, Mrs. E. Homstein.

We want make it completely open and transparent, so our know hows can be passed on to benefit other municipalities.

I want you to join the protest and start demanding more sustainable suburban places more sustainable places, period.

And what we would see here as a suburban development a similar thing, but they're all high rises.

The Declaration will be sent to UN member states leaders and all local municipalities nationwide, and transmitted worldwide through the Internet.

They were actually high school classmates together at the same high school in suburban Los Angles in the 1960s.

lots of recyclable stuff ends up getting incinerated or in landfills and leaving many municipalities, diversion rates they leave much to be recycled.

And up in the sun, you have a single layer of apartments that combine all the splendors of a suburban lifestyle,

I showed here two years ago a little bit about a design of your basic, uncompromised, quintupled efficiency suburban assault vehicle (Laughter)

Cultural variables seem to explain a lot religion and politics accounted for about half of the variation across municipalities. Municipalities tended to have more entrepreneurs if they had a high proportion of pensioners who were members of the Church of Sweden (the official state church until 2000) and a high proportion of right wing voters.

This hypothesis is supported by Giannetti and Simonov, who argue that differences in the prestige of entrepreneurs across municipalities may account for differences in levels of entrepreneurship. In some municipalities, entrepreneurs enjoy high social status, regardless of whether they are already successful elsewhere they are looked down upon and other occupations are more admired.

I walked round the corner, saw the City and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I had solved my problem.

There isn't anybody in Washington lobbying to make it happen or in those municipalities, to build out their cities with these wireless networks because there's zero ongoing communications cost.

There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage building depot.

Suburban expansion to cheap land, for the last 50 years you know the cheap land out on the edge has helped generations of families enjoy the American dream.

Installed into a protective wall surrounding the suburban home of Louis Novaes, who's the head of the Novaes family, are these turret holes, which were used for shooting and looking.

So Sudhir, the suburban boy who had never really been in the inner city, dutifully took his clipboard and walked down to this housing project, gets to the first building.

Our municipalities, rural and urban, play the operational course of infrastructure things like waste disposal, energy demand, as well as social costs of unemployment, drop out rates, incarceration rates and the impacts of various public health costs.

They're being put out about two hours the communities that have been around for literally hundreds of years, or maybe even thousands of years, are being broken up and spread across in the suburban areas outside of Shanghai.

If we look at this carefully, we find it's about 40 percent of the Earth's land surface is devoted to agriculture, and it's 60 times larger than all the areas we complain about, our suburban sprawl and our cities where we mostly live.

The fix, as it's called, may be much more difficult for the dominant society than, say, a 50 check or a church trip to paint some graffiti covered houses, or a suburban family donating a box of clothes they don't even want anymore.

But when we move out to the suburbs, to this cellular condition, really, there's some interesting work that's being done in terms of dividing the house, an existing suburban house into, say 2 or 4 even, but that's still keeping things contained within that single dwelling.

Just from the perspective of climate change, the average urban dweller in the U.S. has about one third the carbon footprint of the average suburban dweller, mostly because suburbanites drive a lot more, and living in detached buildings, you have that much more exterior surface to leak energy out of.