neighbourhood

The second misses the point: at home, you know which neighbourhoods are rough and who the troublemakers might be.

They're so used to coming to see me in seedy neighbourhoods with two rooms and a bed that pulls out of the wall.

Initially, we did it just as you might imagine: by surveying people in so-called up-scale neighbourhoods across the country.

This time round, the mood in neighbourhoods recovering from looting involves relief as well as anger, and a strong desire to fix things.

Hungry for "diversity" and rushing into relatively rundown black neighbourhoods, they snapped up the only housing bargains left.

They say that the streets are now empty with the police and army moving through neighbourhoods firing shots into the air.

He cites one study which showed that in west Africa malaria tends to spread faster in suburban neighbourhoods than in cities and slums.

The neighbourhoods in which they live end up permanently destabilised by the frequent circulation of adults in and out of prison.

Officials hoped they were backing what would become one of the greenest, most attractive residential neighbourhoods in North America.

Determine the look and feel of your city as you watch the cities neighbourhoods evolve.

Much of the new demand for city homes is in neighbourhoods close to light railway stations, hastening the move away from a car culture.

Lincoln Heights is one of the neighbourhoods that were planned specifically for blacks migrating from the South in the early 1920s.

Being a kindly person, he never have conflict with his neighbourhoods.

Our neighbourhoods are bathed in high-intensity light; we do not want to afford ourselves even so much a luxury as a shadow.

Except in one significant incident, in the plush seventh arrondissement, rioters were never able to get into affluent neighbourhoods.

That the latest wave is more dispersed at least suggests less feedthrough to house prices from decaying neighbourhoods.

But now victory gardens are springing up in backyards, school grounds and even on front lawns in posh neighbourhoods.

Over the years the city, foundations and community groups have poured money into neighbourhoods without a broader strategy.

"The money poured into [historic Shanghai neighbourhoods] has provided a natural protection to these houses, " Wallis adds.

Residents of neighbourhoods across the city have been quietly adding flowers and other plants to lanes, boulevards and traffic circles.

to this end , it has developed two retail brands designed to meet the needs of shoppers in towns , neighbourhoods and villages.

Using hidden cameras and cheap bicycles as bait, an Argentine publicist set out to gauge crime in different neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires.

The metro is quickly creating hubs for new neighbourhoods that are recreating some of the social vibrancy the city once enjoyed.

The researchers checked which schools had the most students with the best prospects for academic success in their neighbourhoods.

But Virginia has plenty of conservative neighbourhoods with megachurches and Bushites you've heard of living on your block.

American units will be "embedded" within Iraqi formations to help them hold neighbourhoods wrested from armed groups.

Somehow the dust continues to fall: Met-Mex employees can be seen on vacuuming errands in many neighbourhoods of the city.

Representatives of the African community said they felt harassed by frequent passport checks in their neighbourhoods, China Daily reported.

In one of the worst-hit towns, helicopters were grounded, making it difficult to reach hillside neighbourhoods.

Reports from the Syrian city of Hama say government tanks have been shelling residential neighbourhoods indiscriminately.

There was not much sign of humanitarian relief today, with Kyrgyz drivers too scared to enter Uzbek neighbourhoods.

He worked at a law firm renowned for its civil rights advocacy and its efforts to improve deprived neighbourhoods.

Despite the modern trend towards fractured neighbourhoods, families and workplaces, humanity cannot survive without banding together.

People, funnily enough, like their neighbourhoods and either do not want, or cannot afford, to move.

Mobs went on a rampage, looting shops and government buildings, and spreading fear in middle-class neighbourhoods.

Some know Broadway is a former Indian trail, and that neighbourhoods, like Canarsie and Maspeth, are named for tribes long gone.

Nevertheless, developers are confident the faux foreign neighbourhoods will soon win the hearts of the city's newly affluent.

In the summer of 2007, authorities raided neighbourhoods all over Tehran to confiscate illegal satellite dishes.

Distinct architectural and decorative characteristics help to define neighbourhoods.

Gunmen control the streets of their neighbourhoods. Pro-Gaddafi forces are nowhere to be seen.

On Fridays it is even worse, he says; the authorities block off neighbourhoods so the wounded cannot be taken to hospital.

A federal initiative called Project Safe Neighbourhoods (PSN) pays for the programme; the federal district attorney directs it.

Crime and urban decay can begin to build in neighbourhoods that signal that crime and urban decay has already begun and no one really cares.

Stable neighbourhoods and widespread home ownership can go together but do not need to.

Safe, cohesive, child-centred neighbourhoods, communities, and villages matter for early child development.

Some of the new money is also going on installing the paving, lighting and sewerage that turn favelas into neighbourhoods.

In Rio, the authorities moved physically to wipe out favelas (slums)that had grown up on the hills separating middle-class neighbourhoods.

The shockingly rapid deterioration in health experienced by women in poor black neighbourhoods also directly affects mothers.

Fathers in deprived neighbourhoods are more likely to be absent, which could be because they are following "fast" strategies of their own.

Individual properties and neighbourhoods differ, which makes it hard to construct accurate hedges.

Just north of downtown, one of Miami's oldest African-American neighbourhoods, Overtown, is on the upswing .

I want to see all of them in poorer neighbourhoods, or in areas crying out for more school places.

Mr Arpaio "goes into Hispanic neighbourhoods and rounds up people" while neglecting many ordinary criminals, he charges .

She quitted her job from management position, and then launched a store selling facility stuffs to families around neighbourhoods.

On August 7th trouble broke out in various neighbourhoods around London. The carnage on August 8th was worse.

Earlier this month, HUD said it would provide $2 billion in stimulus funds to stabilise neighbourhoods hit by foreclosure.

A companion study also found children from low and medium-income neighbourhoods were more likely to eat chips, sweets and chocolate.

Yet the vast majority of homes destroyed in Osh, the centre of the violence, are in Uzbek neighbourhoods.

The old neighbourhoods are almost intact, and the city's irrepressible people have mostly returned.

Which neighbourhoods should be saved? What will happen to residents of declining ones?

Founded in 1973, it set out to prove that money could be lent profitably to poor people in poor neighbourhoods.

Our route follows the Pacific coast through densely populated neighbourhoods.

This will hurt the city's poorer residents, some of whom live in neighbourhoods with unemployment rates close to 25%.

Officers now cruise neighbourhoods in squad cars more often than in the elderly, lumbering armoured Land Rovers they once used.

At present, a number of villages and neighbourhoods have set up population or marriage education schools.

They fear a bust-up will radicalise their already-turbulent southern and eastern neighbourhoods.

The group painted hundreds of bicycles white and placed them in lots of neighbourhoods around Amsterdam for people to use.

FEW American neighbourhoods are so exuberantly Mexican as Boyle Heights in east Los Angeles.

Another possibility is that schizophrenia is more likely to be detected in more socially cohesive neighbourhoods.

In response, the National Police are stepping up patrolling of city streets and neighbourhoods.

Imperial College, London, aims to ensure that fewer students from poor neighbourhoods drop out.

Many in these neighbourhoods and beyond appear to have fled.

House prices in the leafier neighbourhoods have almost doubled in the past two years.

Cavalã o, formerly one of the most violent neighbourhoods in Rio state, has seen no murders since 2003.

WhipCar provides suggestions for the prices different cars might fetch in various neighbourhoods.

The army deployed vehicles to to protect residents of wealthy neighbourhoods and five star hotels.

Many of those loyal employees were thrown out of work and those once-nurtured neighbourhoods abandoned.

I focused on a half dozen neighbourhoods and visited them many times over these five years.

The internet lets people compare cities and neighbourhoods by whatever criteria matter to them, from house prices to commuting times.

roadblocks by drug-trafficking gangs have forced the suspension in 15 neighbourhoods of home visits for lead-poisoning victims.

Imcine takes portable screens to neighbourhoods that lack cinemas, holding free screenings for Mexican flicks.

The occupation forces are now bulldozing the neighbourhoods to cover up their crime.

eg. At the end of the day we all go back to our own neighbourhoods.

Even seemingly stable neighbourhoods have boarded up houses.

More stable neighbourhoods are more law-abiding.

In all but the sharpest neighbourhoods, it'll be a surprising proportion.

Snipers took to buildings and shot people, and looters raided wealthy neighbourhoods and terrorised poor ones.

Lawrence Park High School - (Lytton Park, Bedford Park and Lawrence Park neighbourhoods) Toronto - 8.

Schools in nearby neighbourhoods have been closed since November 10th.

People in neighbourhoods of Homs have taken to shouting "Allahu akbar! " ( "God is great! " ) in unison from balconies at night.

Sandbags mark the corners of troubled neighbourhoods.

Even the romantics of Liebig 14 play their part, seeding neighbourhoods with colour and creativity.

It is a pleasant town with glassy cafes next to old souqs and new concrete low-rise neighbourhoods.

The neighbourhoods people care about are much smaller.

Most are young, male and come from poor neighbourhoods. Many are black.

Her group, launched by RSF, visits local neighbourhoods to teach parents about new schools and how to send their children there.

More affluent parents in America shop for schools, move neighbourhoods and spend a great deal on private tuition for their children.

When people become involved in their neighbourhoods they can become a potent force for dealing with local problems.

Most are young, male and come from poor neighbourhoods.

Today the tyres are not in flames. Instead, they help the white van that is terrorizing our neighbourhoods to speed away.

in the same neighbourhoods, turn grey in these same houses.

The city usually plants low junipers in the traffic circles that act as traffic calmers in some neighbourhoods.

As we are all aware, marijuana grow ops are being found by police in all neighbourhoods.

My host is keen to avoid the Alawite neighbourhoods but we drive past so he can point to the empty streets and shuttered windows.

On the other, security costs and insurance rates will fall and neighbourhoods will become better for people to live in.

Today's sprawl of track will make way for new "carbon-neutral" neighbourhoods.

Governments subsidise home ownership because they think it encourages stable, more law-abiding neighbourhoods.

Libyas state TV says Libyas green national flag has been hoisted in most neighbourhoods of Benghazi.

The difference in adult mortality between least and most deprived neighbourhoods in the UK is more than 2. 5 times.

By contrast, many of America's least-educated women live in neighbourhoods where single motherhood is the norm.

In the worst-hit neighbourhoods, such as Dale City, the foreclosure signs are everywhere.

In the past month, authorities in China's north-east have cracked down with dawn raids on neighbourhoods in search of North Koreans.

Zurich has 12 kreis, or districts, many of which contain multiple neighbourhoods.

Lamenting the disparity is easy; of course poor and minority neighbourhoods should not be society's dumping grounds.

One reason for this is that in some poorer neighbourhoods there may be little fresh food on sale.

Nor is it certain that owners always take better care of their neighbourhoods than rentes do.

After several years living in the city, it can be difficult to remember how certain neighbourhoods first appeared;