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URB
This article is about the magazine titled URB. For the band of Shawnee denoted by the initials URB, see United Remnant Band of the Shawnee Nation. If you are looking for University Radio Bath, which is shortened to URB, see 1449AM URB. URB is a monthly American magazine devoted to electronic musi..

URB597
In pre-clinical laboratory tests researchers found URB597 increased the production of endocannabinoids by blocking their degradation, resulting in measurable antidepressant effects. URB597 is also known as KDS-4103. KDS-4103 is being developed by Kadmus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for clinical trials ..

URB754
2-Arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG) is an endogenous agonist of the central cannabinoid receptor (CB1) receptor.[1,2] It is present at relatively high levels in the central nervous system and is the most abundant molecular species of monoacylglycerol found in rat brain.[1,3] Monoacyl..

Urbain Grandier
Urbain Grandier Urbain Grandier (1590 - 18 August 1634) was a French Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft. Grandier served as priest in the church of Sainte Croix in Loudun, in the diocese of Poitiers. He seems to have had several sexual and romantic..

Urbain Le Verrier
Urbain Le Verrier. Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (March 11, 1811 – September 23, 1877) was a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics. He worked at the Paris Observatory for most of his life. Biography Le Verrier was born in Saint-Lô, France. His most famous achiev..

Urbain Olivier
Urbain Olivier (1810-1888) was a Swiss writer. The brother of Juste Olivier, he was well known from 1856 onwards as the author of numerous popular tales of rural life in the Canton of Vaud, especially of the region near Nyon. ..

Urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement (Russian: , posyolok gorodskogo tipa; #redirect [[Template:Lang-uk]], selyshche mis'koho typu; abbreviated as п.г.т. in Russian and as с.м.т. in Ukrainian) is an official designation for a certain type of urban settlements used in some of the countries of the former Sovie..

Urban75
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Urban75 (also sometimes referred to as u75 or urban) is a Brixton-based website and messageboard. It was founded..

Urbana
Urbana is the name of some places in the United States of America: Urbana, IllinoisUrbana, MarylandUrbana, MissouriUrbana, New YorkUrbana, OhioUrbana is the name of a place in Italy: Urbana, ItalyIn addition, there is also, with a slightly different spelling: Urbanna, VirginiaUrbana may also refer t..

Urbana, Illinois
A snowy day in Carle Park west of the Urbana High School. On the right is a statue of Abraham Lincoln by Lorado Taft. Urbana (pronounced [ɝbænə]) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 36,395 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Champaig..

Urbana, Iowa
Urbana is a city in Benton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,019 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Notable natives4 External links Geography Urbana is located at [42°13′27″N, 91°52′41″W] (42.224286, -91.877950)[G..

Urbana, Maryland
Urbana is an unincorporated community located in southern Frederick County, Maryland. It lies at the I-270/MD Rt. 80 interchange, about 7.5 miles from Frederick. Growth The original Urbana community has been somewhat overshadowed by new developments, the Villages of Urbana and the Urbana Highlands..

Urbana, Missouri
Urbana is a city in Dallas County, Missouri, United States. The population was 407 at the 2000 census. Geography Urbana is located at [37°50′38″N, 93°9′59″W] (37.844025, -93.166316)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city ..

Urbana, New York
Urbana is a town in Steuben County, New York, USA. The population was 2,546 at the 2000 census. The Town of Urbana is in the northeast part of the county. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 Communities and locations in Urbana5 External links History The tow..

Urbana, Ohio
Urbana is a city in Champaign County, Ohio, 47 miles (76 km) west of Columbus. Urbana was laid out in 1805, and for a time in 1812 was the headquarters of the Northwestern army. Urbana was named after a town in Virginia. It is the burial-place of the Indian fighter Simon Kenton. In 1900, 6,808 peopl..

Urbanate
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Urbana (convention)
Urbana is a major Christian missions convention sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for college students. This event is designed to inform Christian students about current issues around the world that missionaries face, to declare the biblical mandate for cross-cultural missions, and mot..

Urbana University
Urbana University is a small university specializing in liberal arts education. Urbana is located in Urbana, Ohio, approximately one hour west of Columbus and one hour northeast of Dayton. History Urbana University was founded in 1850 by followers of the 18th century Swedish philosopher and sci..

Urbanball
Urbanball is a recreational activity and competitive sport that consists of accomplishing figures with a ball, using any part of the body and elements in the surroundings. It has originated in France, where it retains its strongest influence. Contents 1 History2 The discipline3 Th..

Urbancrest, Ohio
Urbancrest is a village in Franklin County, Ohio, United States. The population was 868 at the 2000 census. Geography Urbancrest is located at [39°53′55″N, 83°5′8″W] (39.898611, -83.085443)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, t..

Urbandale, Iowa
Urbandale is a city in Polk County, and partially in Dallas County, in the state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 29,072; a special census taken by the city in 2005 counted 35,904 residents. Contents 1 History2 Government3 Geography4 Demographics5 ..

Urbane
Urbane mentioned in the Bible: Romans 16:9*Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to t..

Urbanfetch
Urbanfetch was an Internet company founded in 1999 which enabled customers to order products (DVDs, music, books, snacks, gifts, etc.) online and have them delivered by bike messenger in under an hour within a certain delivery areas covering most of Manhattan and London. The company's business plan ..

Urbania
Urbania is a fictional country in the planned movie 'The Arabian Way Of Life' which is to be released sometime in 2010 or so. It is going to be an Arabian country, set in the middle of the Lebanese/Syrian border, but not reaching all the way to Turkey and Golan Heights. Its capital will be Porches..

Urbanice
Urbanice is name of several locations in the Czech Republic: village Urbanice in Pardubice Region (Pardubice District)village Urbanice in Hradec Králové Region (Hradec Králové District) This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list ..

Urbanice (Pardubice District)
See other places named Urbanice. Urbanice is very small village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 73 inhabitants. External links [Short official information about the village] (cz) ..

Urbanism
Urbanism is both descriptive and prescriptive. Prescriptively, urbanism is the study and practice of creating human communities for living, work, and play; it covers the more human aspects of urban planning, where the prescriptive aspects of urbanism are more fully covered. Descriptively, urbani..

Urbanism (album)
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. urbanism is an album of 11 conceptual tracks by the members of the third incarnation of demoscene netlabel Hellven. The album features guest re..

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Urbanity
The concept of urbanity, of the characteristically citified view of life, referred originally to the view of the world from Rome, and the popes who took Urbanus for a pontifical name were expressing their solidarity with the city they ruled as Bishop of Rome. The converse of Urbanus is Rusticus. Urb..

Urbanization
Urbanization (or Urbanisation see here) is a natural expansion of an existing population, namely the proportion of total population or area in urban localities or areas (cities and towns), or the increase of this proportion over time. It can thus represent a level of urban population relative to tot..

Urbanization in Africa
This article concerns Urbanization in Africa, but since it is based on a paper about the relationship between urbanization and politics in Sub-Saharan Africa its main focus lies there. Please update as needed and remove this notice when you find the article sufficiently balanced Contents 1 U..

Urbank, Minnesota
Urbank is a city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 59 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.9 km² (0.7 mi²), all land. Demographics As of the census2 of 2000, there were 59 people, 32 household..

Urbanna, Virginia
"Urbanna" redirects here. A common misspelling of Urbanna is Urbana. Urbanna is a town in Middlesex County, Virginia, United States. The population was 543 at the 2000 census. Geography Urbanna is located at [37°38′16″N, 76°34′23″W] (37.637796, -76.573149)[Geographic refer..

Urbano Barberini
Urbano Barberini (b. 1962 in Rome) is a leading Italian actor and the older brother of actress Veronica Zinny. Filmography The Fine Art of Love (2005)[[Adored: Diary of a Porn Star]] (2003)Come Mi Vuoi (1996)Moses (1996)The Black Cat (1990)Courage Mountain (1989)Torrents of Spring (1989)Outlaw of ..

Urbano González Serrano
Urbano González Serrano (Navalmoral de la Mata; 1848 - Madrid; 1904) was a Spanish philosopher, psychologist, educator, and literary critic of the late 19th century. Biography Serrano was a supporter of the thought of the German philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, developing his own stran..

Urbano Lazzaro
Urbano Lazzaro was an Italian resistance fighter who captured Benito Mussolini. Lazzaro died 3.1.2006. ..

Urbano Lugo
Lugo Jr. with Leones del Caracas Rafael Urbano Lugo Colina (born August 12, 1962 in Punto Fijo, Venezuela), best know as Urbano Lugo, is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the California Angels (1985-88), Montreal Expos (1989) and Detroit Tigers (1990). Lugo..

Urbano Rattazzi
Urbano Rattazzi (June 20, 1808–June 5, 1873) was an Italian statesman. Biography Born in Alessandria (Piedmont), in 1848 he was sent to the chamber of deputies in Turin as representative of his native town. By his debating powers he contributed to the defeat of the Balbo ministry, and for a ..

Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (1923 - ) is a Portuguese literary critic and fiction writer. Urbano Tavares Rodrigues was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1923. He did, however, spent his childhood near Moura, in Alentejo, a southern region of the country. He has links to the Portuguese Communist Party since ..

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Urbanus
This article is about the Belgian comedian. Urbanus is also the Latin name for a number of popes. See Pope Urban. Urbain Servranckx (July 17, 1949, Schepdaal, Belgium), also known as Urbain and Urbanus van Anus, is a Belgian comedian, actor, singer and comic book 'hero'. Biography He has produced..

Urbanus (Roman usurper)
Urbanus (d. 271?) was a Roman usurper. Urbanus staged an uprising in the beginning of the reign of Aurelian. According to Zosimus (1,49,2) he was soon defeated. It is possible that this usurper never existed. References "Urbanus", s.v. ["Aurelian"], De Imperatoribus Romanis site ..

Urban (disambiguation)
Urban may refer to: Urban area, a geographical area (including cities and towns) distinct from rural areasUrbanization, the development and expansion of urban areasUrban culture, associated with cities, especially hip hop culture which originated in New York CityUrban contemporary and Mainstream U..

Urban (name)
Urban is a male name from the latin urbanus (from the city). A popular name for popes. Famous Urbans Pope Urban I, popePope Urban II, popePope Urban III, popePope Urban IV, popePope Urban V, popePope Urban VI, popePope Urban VII, popePope Urban VIII, popeUrban Hiärne, scientistUrban Sahlin, actorU..

Urban Academy Laboratory High School
The Urban Academy Laboratory High School is a progressive, alternative high school located in New York, New York. Founded in 1986, its goal was to create a place where students could learn in a nontraditional sense. The classes, for example, are mostly all based on discussion. Students tend to sit ..

Urban Adult Contemporary
Urban Adult Contemporary is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format. Radio stations using this format usually would not have rap music on their playlists. The format was designed by Barry Mayo when he, Lee S. Simonson and Bill Pearson organized Broadcast Partner..

Urban agriculture
Urban (or peri-urban) agriculture is the practice of agriculture (include crops, livestock, fisheries, forestry activities) within or surrounding the bounderies of cities. The land used may be private residential land (use of private pieces of land, balconies, walls or building roofs), public roads..

Urban Alien
Urban Alien is a psychedelic trance album released by Children of Paradise in 1999. Track listing "Z's Y""Alien Nation Part 2""New Cop""El Nino""Bloodsuckers""Alien Nation Part 1""Fairy in the Dragonforest""Concrete Canyon" ..

Urban America Television
"UATV" redirects here. For , see United Artists Television. Urban America Television (UATV) is an over-the-air television broadcast network in the United States. According to the company's website, the network has 70 affiliate stations. The company has recently announced an agreement with Nielsen ..

Urban and regional planning
Urban and regional planning is generally accepted as an academic discipline centred upon studies of urbanism in geography. The regional component is the study of how cities that co-exist in the same regional area interact with one another, such as economic co-operation, civic ties and travel to wor..

Urban and Suburban Transit Association
The Urban and Suburban Transit Association (VEKE) (Hungarian: Városi és Elővárosi Közlekedési Egyesület) is a Hungarian non-profit organization, aimed at developing city transport in Hungary. Contents 1 Organizational structure2 Workgroups3 VEKE's results so far4 See..

Urban Animal
Urban Animal is a monthly magazine published in North Texas with articles of interest to animal rescue organizations, animal shelters, and animal-concerned individuals. It contains a wide listing of area animal shelters, rescue organizations, animal-help organizations, and animal-related events. Eac..

Urban Arcana
Urban Arcana is a campaign setting for the d20 Modern roleplaying game that builds on small campaign model included in the original rulebook. It adds much in the way of magic and monsters to the game, and contains rules for things such as playing Shadowkind characters. In the world of Urban Arcana..

Urban archaeology
Urban archaeology is a sub discipline of archaeology specialising in the material past of towns and cities where long-term human habitation has often left a rich record of the past. Humans produce waste. Large concentrations of humans produce large concentrations of waste. Faeces, kitchen waste, br..

Urban area
The city of San Luis Obispo, an example of an urban area. An urban area is a term used to define an area where there is an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. This term is at one end of the spectrum of suburban and rural areas. An urban are..

Urban areas in Sweden
The terminology on urban areas in Sweden is notoriously hard to translate to people outside of Scandinavia because they are unique and because some terms are only used for statistical purposes and are not used by laymen. Basically, each of the 26 counties of Sweden is divided into several municipali..

Urban areas of New Zealand
Statistics New Zealand defines New Zealand urban areas for statistical purposes. The urban areas comprise cities, towns and other 'conurbations' (an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities) of a thousand people or more. In combination, the urban areas of the country constitute New Zea..

Urban Artillery
Urban Artillery is a Los Angeles-based band founded by Jeff Hollie (Frank Zappa, Burning Sensations, Bonedaddys) and Steve Young (Beef Box, Urban Artillery, Q Styles Infinity). Their overall sound has been described as a cross between George Clinton and Rage Against the Machine. During their mercena..

Urban Assault
This article is about the computer game. See Urban Assault (band) for the Nevada-based Skeeno hardcore band. Urban Assault is a combined first-person shooter and real-time strategy computer game developed by the German company TerraTools and published by Microsoft. It was released on January 31 ..

Urban asthma
Urban asthma in New York City Asthma is now the leading cause of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and missed school days in New York City’s poorest neighbourhoods. Urban asthma is frequently described as one of America’s fastest growing epidemics. The epidemic is particularly acute amon..

Urban Bank
Urban Bank (PSE: UBI), also known by its initials (and ticker symbol) UBI, was one of the largest banks in the Philippines. The bank, along with its two subsidiaries, was arbitrarily closed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation on April 26, 2000. Th..

Urban beach
A jogger cools off at the urban beach in the heart of downtown Toronto at Yonge and Dundas Square (multiple exposure picture). An urban beach, or urbeach, is a place in the downtown core of a city that has a water feature that people can use to cool off on hot days. However, unlike a waterpa..

Urban blight
Symptoms of urban blight: graffiti-covered abandoned and deteriorating buildings and garbage-strewn vacant lots. Blight is a "condition of property or the uses of property in parts of a city, town, or neighborhood that are detrimental to the physical, social, and/or economic well-being of a co..

Urban breed
Urban breed is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal band Tad Morose. He has appeared on A Mended Rhyme (1997), Undead (2000), Matters of the Dark (2002) and Modus Vivendi (2003). He left the band in December 2005. Urban's style has been described as similar to Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbat..

Urban Canvas
Graffiti art is regarded by most as the first forms of Urban Art in modern society. This was the truest form of the Urban Canvas of life as pictorially displayed across our cities. The art form itself has been transformed over the years into an expression of political and cultural diversity which ..

Urban canyon
An urban canyon is an artifact of an urban environment similar to a natural canyon. It is caused by streets cutting through dense blocks of structures, especially skyscrapers. An example of an urban canyon is the Magnificent Mile in Chicago. Urban canyons can cause problems for radio reception, p..

Urban car
An urban car is a car designed to be used in city traffic. They are small in size and not powerful, but fuel efficient. Urban cars are often hailed as the answer to the escalating levels of air pollution and traffic congestion that result from increases in numbers of larger personal vehicles. They..

Urban Carmichael
Urban Carmichael, (died February 13, 2006), was a well-known entertainer from Prince Edward Island, Canada. With his signature hat and red-check jacket, he was a font of down-home humor and an expert storyteller. A memorable performer at comedy and folk festivals in Eastern Canada, he also appeared ..

Urban Center
The Urban Center is a gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City (USA), which is run by the Municipal Art Society (MAS). The gallery serves to champion the fields of urban planning and design in New York, and is also the site of MAS' community development workshops, seminars, lectures, and other edu..

Urban Champion
Urban Champion is a fighting game produced by Nintendo in 1985. Gameplay The purpose of the game is to knock the other player into a sewer manhole.There is a time limit, and the player has a set limit of stamina, both of which are represented by numbers. The player has two types of attacks: a ligh..

Urban Chaos
Urban Chaos became the debut video game of English developer Mucky Foot Productions with its initial release in 1999 on the PC. It was subsequently released on the PlayStation and Dreamcast. The game was published by Eidos Interactive. Urban Chaos is unrelated to [[Urban Chaos: Riot Response]] a f..

Urban Chaos: Riot Response
Urban Chaos: Riot Response is a first-person shooter videogame developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Eidos Interactive for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and PC. The game was released in spring 2006. In the game, you play as Nick Mason, a member of the newly-formed "T-Zero" riot response squad..

Urban Chipmunk
Urban Chipmunk was the first country album by The Chipmunks. It parodies the 1980 motion picture Urban Cowboy. It was released on February 4, 1981 (see 1981 in music). Contents 1 Critical reaction2 Track listing2.1 Side 12.2 Side 22.3 CD Bonus tracks3 Band Lineup..

Urban climate
Urban climate refers to climatic conditions in an urban area that differ from neighboring rural areas and are attributable to urban development. Urbanization tremendously changes the form of the landscape and also produces changes in an area's air. Contents 1 Temperature2 Rainfall3 ..

Urban Communities
This article lacks information on the [Importanceimportance] of the subject matter. If you are familiar with it, please expand the article, or discuss its significance on the talk page. Urban Communities was a loose commune formed in 1969 in Pacific Grove, California. The physical structu..

Urban Community of Bordeaux
Communauté urbaine de Bordeaux (Urban Community logo) Founded January 1, 1968 President PS) (since 2004) Communes 27 Area 551.88 km² Population1999 census city of Bordeaux) Density 1,196/km² Budget 1 852 million euros (2004)(US .128 billion) 1 After compensa..

Urban Community of Lille Métropole
The Urban Community of Lille Métropole (French: Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine) is the intercommunal structure gathering the commune of Lille (France) and some of its suburbs. The Urban Community of Lille Métropole encompasses only a part of the metropolitan area of Lille (see infobox at L..

Urban Community of Lyon
Communauté urbaine de Lyon (Urban Community logo) Founded January 1, 1969 President PS) (since 2001) Communes 55 Area 486.81 km² Population1999 census city of Lyon) Density 2,398/km² Budget 1 1.146 billion euros (2004)(US .517 billion) 1 After compensatory t..

Urban Community of Marseille Provence Métropole
Communauté Urbaine Marseille Provence Métropole (Urban Community logo) Founded July 7, 2000 President UMP) (since 2000) Communes 18 Area 604.75 km² Population1999 census city of Marseilles) Density 1,623/km² Budget 1 approx. 250 million euros (2004)(US 0 milli..

Urban Community of Nantes
Communauté urbaine de Nantes (Urban Community logo) Founded January 1, 2001 President PS) (since 2001) Communes 24 Area 523.35 km² Population1999 census city of Nantes) Density 1,059/km² Budget 1 654 million euros (2004)(US 6 million) 1 After compensatory tr..

Urban Community of Strasbourg
Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg (Urban Community logo) Founded December 4, 1967 President UMP) (since 2001) Communes 28 Area 305.97 km² Population1999 census city of Strasbourg) Density 1,475/km² Budget 1 955.8 million euros (2004)(US .263 billion) 1 After ..

Urban Community School
Urban Community School is an elementary school located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Contents 1 Mission2 General Information3 Historical Timeline4 External links Mission Urban Community School exists to provide a quality, individualized, Catholic-Christian education to children li..

Urban contemporary
The term urban contemporary was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap music, contemporary R&B, and, on occasion, Caribbean music such as reggae and reggaeton. The term "urban contemporary"..

Urban Cookie Collective
Urban Cookie Collective are a British techno and house band best known for their hit single "The Key The Secret", which was originally released in 1993. Contents 1 Career2 Discography2.1 Singles2.2 Album3 References4 External links Career Rohan Heath (born 19 July,..

Urban Council
The Urban Council (UrbCo, }) was a municipal council in Hong Kong responsible for municipal services on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon (including New Kowloon). These services were provided by the Urban Services Department. The equivalent body for the New Territories was the Regional Council...

Urban Council Centenary Garden
The Urban Council Centenary Garden (Chinese: 市政局百周年紀念公園) is a public park in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was named to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the establishment of the Urban Council. Since the abolishment of the Urban Council in 2000, the park has..

Urban Cowboy
Urban Cowboy is a 1980 film movie starring John Travolta and Debra Winger about the love-hate relationship between Travolta's cowboy character Bud Davis and Winger's cowgirl character Sissy. Tagline: Hard hat days and honky-tonk nights. Contents 1 Plot summary2 Other information3&nbs..

Urban Crew
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Urban culture
Urban culture is the culture of cities. Cities all over the world, past and present, have behaviors and cultural elements that separate them from otherwise comparable rural areas. In the US and UK, "urban" is often used to refer to hip hop culture or subsets of black culture. It can also refer to..

Urban Dance Squad
Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch band, celebrated as being one of the most innovative and important music groups to come from The Netherlands#redirect [[Template:fact]]. Their music was a blend of genres such as heavy rock, funk, soul and rap, but also reggae and ska, which were not commonly mixed at t..

Urban Dead
Official logo of Urban Dead Urban Dead is an HTML/text-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Kevan Davis. Set in a quarantined region of the fictional city of Malton, it deals with the immediate aftermath of a zombie outbreak. New players choose to start as a human s..

Urban debate league
The urban debate league is a group of high school policy debate teams from urban high schools. Because each school may have a number of individual teams, there can be a very large number of students who have participated in an urban debate league. Contents 1 History1.1 Funding2 How..

Urban decay
Urban decay and renewal in Cincinnati Urban decay is the popular term for both the physical and social degeneration of a cities and large towns. It is characterized by depopulation, property abandonment, social problems, crime, and desolate and unfriendly urban landscapes. Urban decay is asso..

Urban design
Urban design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities. Its focus is particularly on public space (a.k.a. the ‘public environment’, ‘public realm’ or ‘public domain’) including the totality of spaces that are used freely on a day-to-day basis by the gen..

Urban Development Authority
The Urban Development Authority (Malay: Perbadanan Pembangunan Bandar; commonly abbreviated as UDA) is an agency of the government of Malaysia. It serves to launch and oversee urban development projects related to business, industry, and housing. It is also tasked with developing urban infrastruc..

Urban Development Corporation
The Urban Development Corporation (doing business as the Empire State Development Corporation) is a public authority of the state of New York in the United States. Created in 1968, it supports various kinds of commercial and noncommercial urban development. It can exercise powers of eminent domain..

Urban Dictionary
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Urban Discipline
Urban Discipline is the second album from Brooklyn hardcore punk band Biohazard. Track listing "Chamber Spins Three" – 3:41"Punishment" – 4:44"Shades Of Grey" – 3:27"Business" – 4:04"Black And White And Red All Over" – 4:04"Man With A Promise" – 3:20"Disease" ..

Urban district
In the British Isles an urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected Urban District Council (UDC), which shared local government responsibillities with a county council. England and Wales In England and Wales, urban districts..

Urban division
Contents 1 Prince Albert Urban Schools2 Elementary3 Junior High4 High school Prince Albert Urban Schools When the merger between urban and rural school divisions in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, happened there were some changes made to both divisions to make things homogenized..

Urban Dubz Records
Urban Dubz is a Techno and House record label based in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. The labels producers include Jeremy Sylvester and Slarta John of Basement Jaxx. See also List of record labels External links [Official site][Jeremy Sylvester] ..

Urban ecology
Urban ecology is the subfield of ecology which deals with the interaction of plants, animals and humans with each other and with their environment in urban or urbanizing settings. Analysis of urban settings in the context of ecosystem ecology (looking at the cycling of matter and the flow of energy..

Urban economics
Urban Economics is a branch of Microeconomics that studies the location of households and firms. While other forms of economics do not account for spatial relationships between individuals and organizations, urban economics focuses on these spatial relationships to understand the economic motivation..

Urban engineering
Urban engineering is a subset of the general practice of urban planning. It is limited to civil engineering in an urban setting. It does not include designing buildings or their functions. ..

Urban Enterprise Zone
Urban Enterprise Zones (UEZs) encourage development in blighted neighborhoods by offering entrepreneurs and investors tax and regulatory relief if they start businesses in the area. Originating in Britain, the concept was introduced to the United States by Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation ..

Urban exploration
An urban explorer stands near the outfall of a muffin shaped brick and concrete storm drain, under Saint Paul, Minnesota. Urban exploration, urbex or UE, is the examination of the normally unseen or off-limits parts of human civilization. Urban exploration is also commonly referred to as infi..

Urban fantasy
Urban fantasy is a subset of contemporary fantasy, consisting of magical novels and stories set in contemporary, real-world, urban settings -- as opposed to 'traditional' fantasy set in wholly imaginary landscapes, even ones containing imaginary cities, or having most of their action take place in t..

Urban fiction
Urban fiction is a literary genre set, as the name implies, in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the race and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city life, and the characters tend to be Af..

Urban field
The urban field is a form of urban habitat of relatively high density involving a good transportation system and a broad array of economic, social and recreational oppurtunities. Even though the sections of the urban field may still be in agricultural use, the area is nonetheless urbanized because a..

Urban Folk
Urban Folk is a form of folk music which combines elements of traditional folk and post-punk/new wave influences. It got its name from the fact that the songs often reflect urban life. The style borrows more from the "Feeling" of punk (i.e. the directness and, often, the political subject matter) th..

Urban forest
Urban forest is a forest or a collection of trees that grow within a city, town or a suburb. In a wider sense it may include any kind of tree vegetation. In a narrower sense it describes areas whose ecosystems are inherited from wilderness leftovers. Urban forests play an important role in ecology ..

Urban forestry
Urban forestry is the care and management of tree populations in urban settings for the purpose of improving the urban environment. Urban forestry advocates the role of trees as a critical part of the urban infrastructure. Urban foresters plant and maintain trees, support appropriate tree and fore..

Urban Gad
Peter Urban Gad (February 12 1879 - December 26 1947) was a Danish film director. He directed 40 film between 1910 and 1927. His wife Asta Nielsen starred in 30 of his films. Also in his debut the famous movie Afgrunden (The Abyss) from 1910. They moved to Germany in 1911 where Gad worked until 1922..

Urban gaming
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since April 2006. Urban gaming is the branch..

Urban gardening
Urban gardening involves using available soil and containers to grow plants in an urban environment. Usually this refers to growing inside the home or on a roof or terrace, though urban gardening may also include growing plants in windowboxes. This definition sets urban gardening apart from urban ag..

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Urban Getaway
"Urban Getaway" is a single by Elemeno P released in 2003. Track Listing Urban GetawaySisterHiphop VeronaVerona (Video) ..

Urban golf
This article is about the game of Urban Golf. For the verdant brother see golf. For other meanings, see Golf (disambiguation). Urban golf is a game, derived from the original game of golf, in which individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole or at a specified target using various clubs. ..

Urban Gothic
Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on UK terrestrial Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a comparatively low budget, it nonetheless acquired a cult following despite its late air time and the patchy coverage of Channel 5. Set in t..

Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew
Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew is a non-fiction book by English writer Bernard Hare. It is an eye-opening, jaw-dropping account of Britain's dispossessed youth and inner city wastelands. Hare was on society's margins, living on a rough estate in Leeds, England and with a liking for drink and dr..

Urban growth boundary
An urban growth boundary, or UGB, is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urbanization by designating the area inside the boundary for high density urban development and the area outside the boundary for low density rural development. An urban growth boundary circumscribes an entire u..

Urban Guerrilla (song)
"Urban Guerrilla" is the name of a single 45 rpm record released in the United Kingdom by the band Hawkwind in 1974, but rapidly withdrawn following a terrorist outrage. The lyrics in question '"I'm an urban guerrilla, I make bombs in my cellar, I'm a derelict dweller, I'm a potential killer".' ..

Urban guerrilla warfare
Urban guerrilla redirects here. For the Hawkwind song, see Urban Guerrilla (song). Urban guerrilla refers to someone who fights a government or dictatorship using unconventional warfare in an urban environment (see: guerrilla warfare). Many have been on the left-wing of the political spectrum (espe..

Urban H. Broughton
Urban Hanlon Broughton (April 12, 1857-January, 1929) was a civil engineer, railroad and mining executive, and Member of Parliament. In 1929, he was in line for elevation to the peerage, but he died in January before the process was finalized. However, his wife, Cara Leland (née Rogers)Broughton be..

Urban Harvest
Urban Harvest is a local nonprofit organization in Houston, Texas dedicated to strengthening communities through gardening education. They support a network of inspirational and educational gardens and orchards throughout the greater Houston area which build community health, vitality and pride. ..

Urban Health Resource Centre
Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC) is a non-profit Indian organization which aims to address health issues of the urban poor through a consultative and knowledge-sharing approach in partnership with government and civil society. USAID/India developed a child survival strategy in November 2000 th..

Urban heat island
An urban heat island (UHI) is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surroundings. As population centers grow in size from village to town to city, they tend to have a corresponding increase in average temperature, which is more often welcome in winter months than in summertime. ..

Urban Hettich
Urban Hettich (born March 2 1953 in Schonach). Is a former West German Nordic combined skier. His best know finish was a silver at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in the Individual event. He is the father of four-time Winter Olympic medalist Georg Hettich and are the only father-son combina..

Urban History
Urban history is an field of history that attempts examine the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanisation. The approach tends to be multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like local history, architectural history, urban sociology and urban geography. At leas..

Urban housework
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Urban Housework began in December of 2000 as the Urban Housework Project. It introduced Urban Vacuuming as a spo..

Urban Hymns
Urban Hymns was a Alternative Rock/Space Rock album released on September 29, 1997 by British rock band The Verve. After the release of the band's previous album, A Northern Soul, The Verve broke up due to growing tensions between Richard Ashcroft and Nick McCabe. They reunited in 1996 (see 1996..

Urban Institute
Based in Washington, D.C., the nonpartisan Urban Institute collects data, conducts policy research, evaluates social programs, educates the public on key domestic issues, and provides advice and technical assistance to developing governments abroad. Contents 1 History and Funding2 ..

Urban jazz
Urban jazz is the fusion of smooth jazz and R&B/hip-hop music. Urban jazz usually contains strong R&B percussion and bass lines. The better known urban jazz artists are Boney James, Urban Jazz Coalition , Nick Colionne , Wayman Tisdale, and Paul Jackson, Jr. Due to the natural progression from ja..

Urban Jungle
Urban Jungle is an educational computer game published in Croatia by [Autoklub Rijeka] and [DIR]. It's an educational traffic simulator aimed at kids in schools and all others that are about to drive a car. The game is 100% violent-free and it's distributed as freeware in Croatia..

Urban Land Institute
The Urban Land Institute, or ULI, is a non-profit organization with offices in Washington, D.C. and London. It was founded in 1936 and currently has over 28,000 members. More than 20% of the members work in government, academia, or public-private partnerships. Most of the rest are involved in the..

Urban Latino
Urban Latino magazine is an American lifestyle publication geared toward Latinos and Latinas 18-34. It was started in 1995 by a member of an art collective and a New York University student. External link [Urban Latino] ..

Urban League of Central Carolinas
Urban League of Central Carolinas previously known as the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Urban League is the division of the National Urban League in Charlotte, North Carolina. ..

Urban legend
Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor). The term is often used with a meaning similar to the expression "apocryphal story." Urban legends are not necessarily untrue, but they are often false, distorted, exaggerate..

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary is a 2005 thriller film starring Kate Mara, Robert Vito, Tina Lifford, Ed Marnaro, Michael Coe, Lillith Fields, Nancy Everhard, Audra Lea Keener, Don Shanks, and Jeff Olson. It went straight to DVD in mid-2005. Urban Legends: Bloody Mary starts off in 1969 at a high scho..

Urban Legends: Final Cut
Urban Legends: Final Cut is a 2000 slasher film. Advertised as a sequel to 1998's Urban Legend, the film shares little in common with that film aside from general themes. It stars Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Loretta Devine, Joseph Lawrence, Anson Mount, Eva Mendes, and Anthony A..

Urban Legends Reference Pages
The Urban Legends Reference Pages, also known as snopes.com, is a website dedicated to determining the truth about many urban legends, internet rumors and other such stories of uncertain or questionable origin. Snopes is run by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a couple from California who met on the ne..

Urban Legend (album)
Urban Legend is an album by the rapper T.I., released in late 2004, which instantly generated crossover success with the hit single "Bring 'Em Out". He used a sample from Jay-Z's The Black Album to create the hook, and featured production from Ruff Ryders producer Swizz Beatz. His album was the fa..

Urban Legend (film)
Urban Legend (1998) is a thriller starring Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Robert Englund, Tara Reid, Joshua Jackson, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Michael Rosenbaum, Danielle Harris, John Neville, and Loretta Devine. Urban Legend is based on the premise that a killer is using the methods o..

Urban legend lawsuits
Urban legend lawsuits are a particularly popular form of urban legend that describe the proceedings of lawsuits supposedly filed at court. Some of these are actually true; others are false, and still further are misunderstandings of actual lawsuits. Examples A woman bought a coffee from McDonald..

Urban lifestyle
An urban lifestyle or an "urban way of life" is a way in which residents of a densely-populated region go about daily business. Many see this epitomized by people living in places such as New York City, London, São Paulo, Sydney, Paris or Tokyo as well as other large and long-established cities. ..

Urban lifestyles
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Urban Male Magazine
Urban Male Magazine was Canada's first men's interest magazine. Urban Male Magazine Homepage: http://www.umm.ca ..

Urban Mass Transportation Act
The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (PL 88-365, codified in Chapter 53 of Title 49 of the U.S. Code) provided $375 million for large-scale urban public or private rail projects in the form of matching funds to cities and states. The Urban Mass Transit Administration (now the Federal Transit Ad..

Urban Media
Urban Media Ltd. is a British ethnic media company established in 2002 and based in Birmingham, England. Urban Media currently produces two major British Asian publications, including The Asian Today and Desi Xpress. The Asian Today is a free fortnightly community newspaper serving the Midlands re..

Urban Meyer
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Urban morphology
Contents 1 Inroduction2 Some key concepts3 Schools of thought4 Selected references5 External links Inroduction Urban morphology is the study of the physical form of a city, which consists of street patterns, building sizes and shapes, architecture, population density and ..

Urban Müller
Urban Dominik Müller (also spelled Urban Dominik Mueller when umlauts are not available) is the creator of the Aminet Amiga archive, the original author of the XPK compression library and the creator of the Brainfuck programming language. Besides this, he enjoys skydiving, juggling hard drives, an..

Urban Mystic
Urban Mystic (born Brandon Williams in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1984) is an American R&B singer. The son of a minister, Urban Mystic currently has a Billboard R&B hit with the ballad "I Refuse", which is receiving substantial airplay around the country. ..

Urban myths related to Catherine II of Russia
The flamboyant and non-trivial character of the Russian Empress Catherine II of Russia as well as the dramatic changes the country underwent under her long rule gave rise to many urban myths, most putting her in quite an unfavorable light. Some myths were loosely based on true events (greatly exag..

Urban Myth Club
Urban Myth Club is a UK–based collective consisting of a number of established artists and vocalists. Known to have worked as part of the collective has includes electronica artist Dezz, samplist and producer Ian Sanderson aka Cuckooland (with Simon Mills of Bent), Hollywood film composer Stephen..

Urban oasis
An urban oasis is a public open space, park, or plaza which is located in between buildings or formed by surrounding buildings in an urban setting. It can exist in any kind of culture. There are various sizes of urban oases. Central Park, Fredrick Law Olmsted’s park in New York City, can be con..

Urban online community
An urban online community consists of a website that caters to one or more urban demographics.Today the focus of many online communities include dating, employment and other social activities. A successful online community is based on the specific needs of the demographics that are being targeted. ..

Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters store in San Francisco. redirect[[Template:Portal]]Urban Outfitters NASDAQ: [URBN] is a clothing retail store with more than 140 shops in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Urban Outfitters also runs Anthropologie and Free People. The first ..

Urban park
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a [WikiProject Countering systemic biasworldwide view].Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the [talk page]. An urban park, also known as a municipal park, is a park that is built in citie..

Urban Pasifika
Urban Pasifika is a sub-genre of hip hop which combines American style hip hop or R&B rhyming and beats with Pacific Island or Maori instrumentation (such as ukulele samples) and Pacific Island or Maori language singing/rapping. It originated in Auckland, New Zealand in around 1993 with the release..

Urban Peasant
Urban Peasant was a Canadian cooking show starring James Barber. Barber has written a number of books, including several companion books to this series: The Urban Peasant: Recipes from the Popular Television Cooking Series (1995, ISBN 0803893701)Peasant's Choice: More of the best from the urban pe..

Urban planner
Urban planners work with local governments to formulate plans for the short- and long-term growth and renewal of urban and suburban communities. They study economic, environmental, and social trends and problems to determine the best use of land and resources. In developing their plan for a communit..

Urban planning
Urban planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest towns to the world's largest cities. Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which deals with the physical, social, and economic development of metropolitan regions, municipal..

Urban planning areas in Singapore
Singapore is divided into 55 urban planning areas by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, organised into five regions. A Development Guide Plan is then drawn up for each planning area, providing for detailed planning guidelines for every individual plot of land throughout the country. Since the imple..

Urban planning in Singapore
One of the challenges of urban planning in Singapore is the arrangement of housing blocks in the maximum density possible, without compromising transport efficiency. Urban planning in Singapore has formulated and guided its physical development from the day the modern city-state was founded i..

Urban prairie
Urban prairie is a recently-coined term to describe what is occurring to the core areas of some North American cities as the process of urban sprawl takes hold. When people abandon a city's central core to relocate to the suburbs, large swaths of buildings are torn down or neglected due to a shrinki..

Urban rail transit
Urban rail transit is an all-encompassing term for various types of local rail systems serving urban or older suburban areas. The vast majority of modern urban rail vehicles run on electricity. The set of urban rail systems can be roughly subdivided into four categories, which sometimes overlap, cau..

Urban Rapsody
Urban Rapsody is a 1997 Rick James album. Track listing Urban RapsodyWest Coast ThingSomebody's Watching YouBack in You AgainTurn It OutGood Ol DaysPlayer's WayNever Say You Love MeIt's TimeSo Soft So WetBring on the LoveMama's EyesSoul SistaFavorite FlavaUrban Rapsody (Reprise) ..

Urban Rapublic
Urban Rapublic is a Czech and German hip hop and reggae festival held annually in June. 2005 Line-Up Scratch ex-The RootsTajai - Souls Of MischiefPhi - Life CypherThe RegimeZion IInsightMr. MentionRanking Fire & Brother ComsUnited Flavour External links [Official site of the festival] ..

Urban Records
Urban Records is a German subisdiary of Universal Music Group. See also List of record labels ..

Urban Redevelopment Authority
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is the national urban planning authority of Singapore, and one of the departments under the Government of Singapore. This is of especially critical importance to the city-state, because Singapore is an extremely dense country where land usage is requir..

Urban Redevelopment in Sacramento
The City of Sacramento, which serves as the state capital of California, was founded in December of 1848 by John Sutter. The following year, California's Gold Rush brought an influx of forty-niners and, shortly thereafter, goods, services, and industry to meet the needs of the booming population. Th..

Urban Regeneration Company
Urban Regeneration Companies are private companies in the United Kingdom that seek to achieve a radical physical transformation of their areas through masterplanning and co-ordinating financial assistance to developers from both the public and private sector. The Companies 1st East for Lowestoft an..

Urban Registry
[Urban Registry Inc.], based in New York City, is a startup company, which launched a free online service in mid-May 2006, for home-seekers looking to buy real estate, and for those searching rental apartments/houses in urban metros. This service is useful primarily for people who wish to ..

Urban Reign
Urban Reign is a multiplayer Beat 'em up game developed by Namco in the tradition of Capcom's Final Fight, River City Ransom, and Double Dragon. The game has a very strong multiplayer component. Its fighting engine was influenced by Power Stone, Tobal 2 and Ehrgeiz. Contents 1 Plot2 G..

Urban Renaissance
Urban Renaissance is a term used to describe the recent period of repopulation and regeneration of many British cities, including, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, and parts of London after a period of suburbanisation during the mid-20th century. This was achieved through a number of in..

Urban renewal
Blight often stands side-by-side with new structures during urban renewal efforts. Note the reflection of the new construction in progress. Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in British English) is a function of urban planning that in the United States reached its peak from the lat..

Urban Renewal Authority
The Urban Renewal Authority (市區重建局; URA) is a statutory body in Hong Kong responsible for accelerating redevelopment to provide a better living environment and neighbourhood. It was set up in 1999, replacing its predecessor Land Development Corporation (土地發展公司, or 土發 for ..

Urban revolution
In anthropology and archaeology, the urban revolution is the process by which small, kin-based, nonliterate agricultural villages are transformed into large, socially complex, civilized urban centres. The term "urban revolution" was introduced by V. Gordon Childe, an Australian archaeologist. Wit..

Urban Ring Project (MBTA)
The Urban Ring is a project of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the state of Massachusetts to develop new public transportation routes that would provide improved circumferential connections among many existing transit lines that project radially from downtown Boston, allowing subu..

Urban Runner
Contents 1 Gameplay2 Plot3 Characters4 Reception5 References6 External links6.1 Official site6.2 Reviews6.3 Data entries Gameplay This game is a movie adventure spanning four CD-ROMs controlled by a mouse, divided into Clue and Actions turns. . Plot..

Urban Rural Fringe
The Urban Rural Fringe (or urban hinterland) can be described as the "landscape interface between town and country" [link], or alternatively as the transition zone where urban and rural uses mix and often clash. Its definition shifts depending on the global location, but typically in Euro..

Urban Rural Trade Unionist Party of Peru
Urban Rural Trade Unionist Party of Peru (in Spanish: Partido Sindicalista Rural Urbano del Perú), was a political party in Peru. Founded in 1939 by Jorge Badani. ..

Urban Safari
Urban Safari is a 1996 comedy directed by Reto Salimbeni starring David Naughton. External link ..

Urban Sax
Urban Sax is an ensemble founded by the French composer Gilbert Artman made up of massive numbers of saxophones, accompanied by percussion and sometimes voices. The group is directed by Artman and performs his compositions, which are generally repetitive and minimalist, often sounding somewhat mech..

Urban search and rescue
Urban search-and-rescue (USAR) involves the location, extrication, and initial medical stabilization of victims trapped in confined spaces. Structural collapse is most often the cause of victims being trapped, but victims may also be trapped in transportation accidents, mines and collapsed trenches..

Urban secession
Urban secession is a city's secession from its surrounding region, to form a new political unit (usually a state or district or province of the same country as its surroundings, but not always). It is the extreme form of urban autonomy, which can be expressed in less formal terms or with ordinary l..

Urban seismic risk
A mixed group of structures Urban seismic risk is special subset of the general term seismic risk. It involves the specific problems of cities when they are subjected to earthquakes. Many problems can be solved with good earthquake construction, and seismic analysis. Toronto, Ontario, Canada..

Urban Services Department
Urban Services Department (Traditional Chinese: }) was a government department in Hong Kong. It carried out the policies and managed the facilities of the former Urban Council.After being abolished with the Urban Council in 1999, its functions were inherited by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Dep..

Urban settlement
Urban settlement may refer to: Urban area, area with high density of human-created structuresUrban-type settlement, an official designation for a certain type of urban settlement used in some of the former republics of the Soviet Union This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list..

Urban Shamanism
Urban Shamanism, also known as Digital Shamanism or Psychedelia, is an artistic school of thought born out of the social upheavals of the past four decades, the artistic and technological movements of the 20th century, and the philosophies of various non-western cultures. It parallels and is often a..

Urban Shocker
Urban James Shocker, born Urbain Jacques Shockor (August 22 1890 in Cleveland, Ohio - September 9 1928 in Denver, Colorado), was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns from 1916 to 1928. The right-handed hurler had four consecutive 20-game-winning seasons with ..

Urban sociology
Urban sociology is the sociological study of the various statistics among the population in cities. Chiefly the study of urban areas where industrial, commercial and residental zones converge. This practice sheds light on the influence of the city scape environment in burghal areas of poverty in r..

Urban Soul
Urban Soul is a house music studio project assembled by producer, songwriter and vocalist Roland Clark. Urban Soul hit the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart seven times through the 1990s, including hitting #1 in 1997 with the track "Show Me." Other Urban Soul tracks feature vocals by Sandy B, Ceybil..

Urban Splash
Urban Splash which was setup in 1993, is a company which regenerates decaying industrial warehouses and mills into modern apartments and penthouses as well as construct new build developments. They are mainly based in the northwest cities of the United Kingdom such as Manchester and Liverpool, but..

Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl (also: suburban sprawl), a term with pejorative implication, refers to the rapid and expansive growth of a greater metropolitan area, traditionally suburbs (or exurbs) over a large area. "Urban sprawl" may be a loaded term and it can have negative connotations. The phrase has been used..

Urban stoop
In architecture, an urban stoop is a small staircase leading to the entrance of an urban apartment building. Contents 1 Etymology2 History3 Urban Stoops as a Social Device4 Popular Culture Etymology Originally brought to the Hudson Valley of New York by settlers from the Net..

Urban Strawberry Lunch
Urban Strawberry Lunch (USL) are a Liverpool, England, based group who make music on everyday objects. Formed by Benjamin F Tin and Ambrose Reynolds in 1987, USL began making their own musical instruments after a fire destroyed all of their (uninsured) musical instruments. USL operate in three int..

Urban structure
Urban structure is the arrangement of land use in urban areas. Sociologists, economists, and geographers have developed several models, explaining where different types of people and businesses tend to exist within the urban setting. Three models are described in this article. Concentric Zone Model..