Sentences with phrase «city a model of»

For all of these reasons, this is the moment for the Mayor and Council to build on the momentum from last year's investment and use their leadership to make New York City a model of adult literacy service provision.

Kelley's work resonates much more comprehensibly as a gesamtkunstwerk, a totality of rather astonishing consistency ranging from his earliest bird house sculptures and performance artifacts of the late 1970s, still a graduate student at CalArts, to the terrifying beauty of the Kandors, small city models of the birthplace of Superman contained within glass bell jars attached by hoses to tanks of oxygen.

Here's a couple of ideas that I think would make New York City a model of clean energy efficiency.

Along with a host of traditional beautification efforts, such as the planting of some 300,000 trees, Mayor Richard Daley's administration is also working to make the city a model of how industry and ecology, city and nature, can flourish side - by - side.

The city model of old was like a grocery store — a balanced mix of all types of different products, from milk and bread to a pharmacy to some splurge items like cupcakes and Champagne.

Not exact matches

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It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent study about the New York tech industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.

They sent a survey to an email list of Kansas City residents that Howard had collected and conducted a focus group with six current loyal members to find out what they liked — and didn't — about Howard's current business model.

Ninety - three of the smart city projects are focused on transportation, according to SCMP, and could potentially use its connected infrastructure to build the number of driverless cars and shared - driving models on the road.

When Karim and I were childhood friends, we could never have envisioned that we'd be named 2014 California Small Business of the Year and create a successful model for opening inner - city restaurants.

Farley hinted at one concrete snippet of news: This quarter Ford (f) will begin testing its self - driving network concept — he called it Ford's new business model — in an unnamed city.

While living in the city, she began to casually take modeling jobs and fashion naturally became a big part of her life.

The tech industry is a model of networking, with events almost every week in nearly every city.

Take some tips from Charles Bonello, cofounder of Grand Central Tech, a community of startups and partners that breaks from the traditional accelerator model by providing accepted companies free office space in New York City for a year without requiring equity.

After garnering feedback from more than 80 Kaplan executives and technology experts, and tinkering with their revenue models, design plans and presentation speeches for three months at Kaplan's New York City offices, the teams behind these disruptive education technology companies have learned their fair share of business lessons.

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

Travis Isaacson, senior director of organizational development at Access Development, a Salt Lake City, affinity marketing business, doesn't want anything that fancy, just an iPod Classic with 120 GB of memory instead of the old 80 GB model he has now so he can squeeze in more of the business books he downloads from Audible.com.

Home espresso machines are subject to derision from some coffee snobs, That's because most models «do a half - assed job,» in the words of 30 - shots - a-day drinker Danny O'Neill, founder of Kansas City - based coffee company The Roasterie (That's why he put professional grade machines in his kitchen and tree house.)

Besides having a full - blown ecommerce site with an expanding line of products, Raider and Katz - Mayfield have also dipped their toes in the subscription model and recently added a barbershop, known as the «Corner Shop» in New York City's SoHo area.

«We look for a great team, an interesting market, and an interesting business model,» says Jonathan Axelrod, managing director of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, a New York City - based accelerator that focuses on technology companies.

While the town has maintained much of its rustic charm (electricity in the city's «hotel zone» remains limited), it has also begun to attract a new wave of nomad — models, photographers and Wall Street brokers who gather for bikini boot camps, expensive dinners and far niente — to the delight of foreign investors, who have brandished the area's boho vibe as a persuasive marketing spiel.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

Other cities have been unable to copy L.A.'s model of success because the 1984 Games were unique in many ways.

Zillow cautions that its estimates are rough, based on a simple model that looks at how rents in each city have responded to past influxes of workers.

The estimated cost of the 330,000 square - meter Nitsba City project, modelled on Airport City, is NIS 1.8 billion.

By the end of the film, Ziff forms the Model Alliance, a New York City — based not - for - profit advocacy group dedicated to ensuring safe, fair and healthy working conditions for girls (and they often are girls).

Now the CEO teases Tesla's all - electric Model S in the tunnel — giving us a glimpse of what his vision of a network of tunnels alleviating traffic in cities could look like.

And its corporate campuses are mostly models of how not to build cities, with mega office parks (and spaceship designs) dependent on cars and detached from their neighboring communities.

The Australian rust belt city of Adelaide wants to replicate the same innovation model that has revived American cities like Chattanooga and Pittsburgh.

A full - scale prototype model of a Hyperloop One passenger pod was unveiled in Dubai's City Walk Mall, showcasing the amenities and design of the next - generation, high - speed transport system.

The leasing model seems to have given a new lease of life to Ola, at least in the cities where it directly competes with Uber.

IN HIS SANTA MONICA CONFERENCE ROOM, Quay Hays of GROW Holdings is laying out the plan for Quay Valley, the city he hopes will be a model for California's future.

Its location in the heart of New York, a short distance from the New York Stock Exchange, has since became a hub for Bitcoin in the large city and a model for other community efforts around the world.

Using Shanghai as a case study, Dr. Zhou identified the key challenges to low - carbon city development in China as well as the role that Shanghai can play in creating a sustainable path of development for Chinese cities to model in the future.

Its location in the heart of New York, a short distance from the New York Stock Exchange, has since became a hub for Bitcoin in the large city and a model for

On July 18 and 19, more than 300 local, national and international delegates and speakers are coming to MaRS for The Innovation City, a two - day conference that will explore and highlight the partnerships, ideas and innovation models that will lead to building the great cities of the 21st century.

CMIT was just transitioning into the business IT services model, so I secured a tremendous territory, the entire city of Boston, which now you'd have to pry out of someone's cold, dead hands.

Thursday specifically saw Twitter - based news resource cnLedger reproduce photographs of a Chinese luxury car dealer in the city of Shenzhen which appear to show models on sale

It comes with an awkward manifesto that nonetheless manages to gather an armful of social and economic trends and philosophies, including happiness research, the booming field of collaborative consumption (which uses new technology to share resources like cars, toys and books, on the Zipcar model) and data on the proven efficiencies of cities.

We account for the projected size and earnings of the expanded workforce, as well as the amount of new housing that each city is expected to produce, and we adjust our model's input variables to develop high - and low - range estimates.

Matt Therian of Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm based in Greenwich, Conn., noted that Zipcar has a relatively «capital intensive» business model, but its strong brand image and its head start in the car - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investors.

Outside of modeling, Karlie's personal passion for coding led her to launch Kode With Klossy, a nonprofit that empowers young women to code and become leaders in tech — poised to expand in 2018 to 50 camps in 25 cities.

New York City - based STORY uses a novel retail model «that takes the point of view of a magazine, changes like a gallery, and sells things like a store,» according to a press release.

Theoretically, if a philanthropic, community - based, nonprofit worked in San Diego, it could spur interest in other cities with ever - struggling dailies, though, to be sure, there are a host of management and governance issues implicit in a nonprofit model.

Neither I nor my colleagues were seeking to supply a secular expression of «moral community» that would supplant «a theological definition of the Church» (Bischoff), or promote a «society modeled on the idea of a city of God» (Marr).

The emperor became the patron par excellence (as we can see in the earlier quotation from Nicolaus of Damascus) and the model for (and patron of) the local benefactors outside Rome, who were in turn patrons of others lower down the socio - economic scale (he was, however, the only euergetes of Rome itself — no one else was allowed to make benefactions in that city).

1 — 3 [the prophet makes a model of a besieged city with a tile and an iron pan to symbolize the siege of Jerusalem].

Along with Erich Fromm (with whom she was associated at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and later in New York City) and with Adler, Rank, and Sullivan, she rejected Freud's compartmentalized conflict - centered, biologically reductionistic model of human personality in favor of an emphasis on the functioning of the self as whole in its relational context.

Upon this model of hierarchy we have built our political systems — from the Greek city - state and the Roman Empire to feudal castes, the Holy Roman Empire, and modern nations.

This model is only suggestive, of course; there are many legitimate strategies for how church communities might come to promote and reclaim a better physical presence in the earthly city.