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An edge city is a term coined by Joel Garreau's in his 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, for a place in a metropolitan area, outside cities' original downtowns (thus, in the suburbs or, if within the city limits of the central city, an area of suburban density), with a large concentration of jobs, office space, and retail space ...
Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics. Oakland: PM Press. ISBN 978-1-60486-051-1; Haenfler, Ross (2006). Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813539911
For example, the World Economic Forum notes that the top percent of US earners made 158% more in 2018 than in 1979, whereas the bottom 90 percent of earners made only 24% more. [1] In a review of the report, Hanna Ziady, a CNN Business contributor, states that in order for an American household with low income to reach the American median ...
Aerial view of Bellevue, Washington, a typical edge city with a large amount of office and retail space La Défense, an edge city of Paris The Rosslyn–Ballston corridor in Arlington County near Washington, D.C. Century City, an edge city of Los Angeles Zona Río, 1980s master-planned edge city and largest commercial district in Tijuana, Mexico Dadeland is sometimes referred to as "downtown ...
The forest is a natural system that can supply different products and services. Forests supply water, mitigate climate change, provide habitats for wildlife including many pollinators which are essential for sustainable food production, provide timber and fuelwood, serve as a source of non-wood forest products including food and medicine, and contribute to rural livelihoods.
The left-hand column lists the names of the studies (frequently randomized controlled trials or epidemiological studies), commonly in chronological order from the top downwards. The right-hand column is a plot of the measure of effect ( e.g. an odds ratio ) for each of these studies (often represented by a square) incorporating confidence ...
Equal squares can tile the plane edge-to-edge in the square tiling. Square tilings are ubiquitous in tiled floors and walls, graph paper , image pixels , and game boards . Square shapes are also often seen in building floor plans , origami paper , food servings, in graphic design and heraldry , and in instant photos and fine art.
The vertical–horizontal illusion. The vertical–horizontal illusion is the tendency for observers to overestimate the length of a vertical line relative to a horizontal line of the same length. [1] This involves a bisecting component that causes the bisecting line to appear longer than the line that is bisected.