Sentences with phrase «american cities and suburbs»

This post-war period throughout the country forever changed American cities and suburbs, as well as the manner in which it expanded and represented consumerism, creating the landscapes we know today.

The arrival of the film noir coincided with a new penchant, inspired by Italian neorealism, for moving out of the studio on occasion and onto the great rich set of the American city and its suburbs, a readily available set which became, sometimes with only minimal adjustment of light and shadow, fully as «Germanic» as anything constructed at Ufa in the Twenties.

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The prosperous postwar economy fostered the exodus of an upwardly mobile working class from the city in search of the more genuinely American housing to be found in the suburbs, and at the same time, the entry - level skilled and semiskilled manufacturing jobs once held by project residents disappeared from the urban core.

The study also found men, people who live in cities and non-white Americans are more likely to embrace other worldviews than women, people living in suburbs and rural areas and white Americans.

The American countryside is largely depopulated, with the people moving to slums and suburbs of the cities.

In a study of «the forgotten virtues of community» journalist Alan Ehrenhalt looks at three Chicago - area cornmunities between the 1950s and the 1990s: a Catholic parish in the city, an African - American section of the South Side, and the suburb of Elmhurst.

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

While only 23 members have publicly declared that they plan to vote for Heastie, these supporters are male and female, white, African - American and Hispanic, and they come from New York City, its suburbs and upstate.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

And the Chinese middle class has adopted another American habit: living in the suburbs and relying on a car to commute, whether it be in «Orange County» outside Beijing or similar suburbs on the outskirts of every other major ciAnd the Chinese middle class has adopted another American habit: living in the suburbs and relying on a car to commute, whether it be in «Orange County» outside Beijing or similar suburbs on the outskirts of every other major ciand relying on a car to commute, whether it be in «Orange County» outside Beijing or similar suburbs on the outskirts of every other major city.

«The North American suburb has gone global» «The way cities have grown since World War II is neither socially or environmentally sustainable, and the environmental cost of ongoing urban sprawl is too great to continue,» Yale University's Karen Seto said at the conference, which runs through Thursday.

As Jacobs wrote in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, originally published in 1961: «Towns and suburbs... are natural homes for huge supermarkets and for little else in the way of groceries, for standard movie houses or drive - ins and for little else in the way of theater.

Raymond Carver set a few short stories along the banks of the Sacramento River, and Sam Mendes panned the city's tree - lined suburbs in a shot from «American Beauty,» but besides the rare cameo, the state capitol is oft overlooked as a suitable setting for cinematic and literary ventures.

The flight from inner cities to the suburbs by working - and middle - class Americans affected Catholic schools as much as, if not more than, it did public schools.

This influx of cash and aid is propelling school districts around the country — from New York City to San Diego, Minneapolis to Baltimore, and Boston to Mapleton, a suburb of Denver — to radically transform one of the most firmly entrenched icons in American education.

7 Magnet schools in the Hartford area have special themes designed to draw in students from both the city and suburbs, and they are required to have a student body that is 25 % -75 % racial minority students (newly defined as African American or Hispanic / Latino) in order to be funded by the state.

While it looks a bit shocking to Americans raised within the confines of the typical, homogeneous residential suburb, the i3 seems perfectly at home in a European city like Amsterdam, where there are dramatic expressions of hyper - intensive design everywhere you look — the colorful, plastic - y forms of the modernist housing along the shores of the inland lakes and canals, the small, city - friendly cars, and even the street signs.

Located in the trendy, upscale suburb of Escazu in Costa Rica's largest city — San Jose — the newly constructed Wyndham Garden San Jose Escazu hotel offers travelers a host of modern amenities, world - class service and easy access to all that San Jose and this beautiful Central American country have to offer.

Photographer Alec Soth seeks the American South neither in traditional small towns nor in the cities and suburbs of the New South but in the forest.

Her paintings are based on vacation photosand snapshots of Americans engaged in the long - standing, class - specific summer ritual of departing the city and suburbs for shore and lake houses during the summer season.

Most Americans live in suburbs and have driveways or garages, but city dwellers often don't, and store their cars on the street, which is apparently a God - given right.

the areas covered in the study included 116 American cities, with the highest levels of soot particles found in areas including the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Central Valley of California; Birmingham, Ala.; Atlanta; the Ohio River Valley; and Pittsburgh.

As in so many American cities, the development of mass transit in the Lou» has been hampered by lacks of both funding and a vision of the city and suburbs as a metropolitan whole.

According to a new study by the EPA, new construction in the urban cores and older suburbs of American cities is beginning to catch up with the pace of home construction in the suburbs.

They lived in a forest that surrounded the suburbs of a major North American city, identifiable by a distinctive and high - reaching tower.

More Americans placed a high priority on affordable housing (60 % compared to 51 %); housing opportunities for people with moderate and low income (57 % compared to 46 %); revitalizing older suburbs (38 % compared to 26 %); and creating new development outside cities (34 % compared to 24 %).

At the same time, Americans are more likely to live in the suburbs today than they were in 2000, and even the young, affluent ones drawn to cities tend to move once their kids reach school age, Kolko's research shows.

Americans were on the move in those years, from their rural, agrarian roots to increasingly industrialized cities and, eventually, to the suburbs beyond.

As the urban revival in some American cities pushes out lower - income earners to the nearby suburbs, many of those edge cities are struggling to redefine their purpose — and identity — in a new economy.

In its recent «American Housing Survey,» the bureau found that 43 percent of those under age 25 live in the central city, compared with 34 percent in the suburbs, and 24 percent residing outside a metropolitan statistical area (MSA).