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This effort began to attract other companies and families back to the urban center.

Portland is the major urban and legal center in the state.

Economic development has not had as large an impact outside of urban centers.

The population of its urban center in 2002 was 18,354 people.

The others live in the area around the urban center.

San Francisco has been the cultural, financial and urban center of the region for a long time.

About 95.4 percent of the inhabitants live in the city's urban center.

Nor will much be made of the city as the most heavily black urban center in America.

In 1985, he received 62 percent and carried every urban center.

By 1980, the majority of the state's population was living in urban centers.