urban

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The Local Theatre Touring Alliance welcomed the report, which it said "provides important and timely evidence of the pressures facing touring across theatre, dance and music, particularly in venues outside major urban centres".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

ICE agents, who often work in urban settings, had little prior experience handling hostile crowds.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

But in some local government and urban planning circles, the windowless establishments are seen as hogging land and creating dead zones where there ought be street life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Whereas the broader CPI tracks prices affecting all consumers, CPI-W only looks at prices affecting urban hourly wage and clerical workers.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

A quarter to a third of the adult urban population is engaged fulltime in the nurture and education of the children.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin