Sentences with phrase «in traditional cities»

In traditional cities, non-automotive commuting is 7.5 times higher and automobile ownership is a third lower.
In the traditional city, that moral view is embodied in its formal order.
I live in a traditional city in the South, and here people tend to wear more muted colors for funerals and visitations.
Really get under the skin of this fascinating country, staying in a traditional city riad and an authentic Berber house in the mountains.
These small guest houses are usually located in traditional city houses which ooze architectural beauty and Italian charm.

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I'll tell you about my experiences growing up in a traditional American circus and the current aerial circus community thriving in New York City.
This New York City - based start - up — whose name is a play on the word humongous — processes huge data sets in a fraction of the time it takes traditional databases.
Amazon's latest brick and mortar bookstore in New York City breathes new life into the traditional retail model.
For two decades, Noe Sanchez sent money from California to his father in Mexico City through storefront outlets of traditional remittance firms such as Western Union.
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.
Cecilia Retelle and Kim Taylor — co-founders of Ranku, a discovery engine for online degrees from traditional education institutions — secured Mark Cuban after informally pitching him at a bar in New York City.
The reality is that all but a very select group of cities are struggling to figure out how to create jobs in a time when companies are less dependent on human beings and traditional industries face technology - and trade - driven disruption.
With the release of its new personal finance series, which was made in partnership with the City University of New York, the company's educational reach now expands beyond traditional academic subjects.
As the work of my Brookings colleague William Frey shows, immigrants are migrants within the U. S., too, moving on from traditional immigrant cities — New York and Los Angeles — to other towns and cities in search of a better future.
And «while some cities and ZIP codes, like Seattle, may be more recognizable as traditional hipster havens,» others are more «under - the - radar» and not in the priciest big cities.
Says Vaculik, expanding transport beyond traditional roads could help bypass trillions in estimated infrastructure costs, save consumers lost time driving, create more efficient networks between cities and even make way for a fleet of ridesharing options — Ubers and Lyfts in air.
In Canada, Dylan's will face fierce competition from Chocolats Favoris, a Quebec City - based artisanal confectioner that recently opened more Canadian locations, and Montreal - based Squish, which was founded in 2014 and boasts over 100 flavours of gourmet candies that come in traditional flavours, but also feature some more imaginative ones including sangria, bourbon, chili ginger, champagne, yogurt and elderberrIn Canada, Dylan's will face fierce competition from Chocolats Favoris, a Quebec City - based artisanal confectioner that recently opened more Canadian locations, and Montreal - based Squish, which was founded in 2014 and boasts over 100 flavours of gourmet candies that come in traditional flavours, but also feature some more imaginative ones including sangria, bourbon, chili ginger, champagne, yogurt and elderberrin 2014 and boasts over 100 flavours of gourmet candies that come in traditional flavours, but also feature some more imaginative ones including sangria, bourbon, chili ginger, champagne, yogurt and elderberrin traditional flavours, but also feature some more imaginative ones including sangria, bourbon, chili ginger, champagne, yogurt and elderberry.
Dannon, a long - time industry giant, also opened up a shop in New York City earlier this month called The Yogurt Culture Company that serves both fresh Greek and traditional varieties.
We've been to 33 cities, and in each one, people lament the challenges in connecting startup communities with traditional businesses, governments, and local investors.
Common is a new community offering flexible shared housing in major cities, starting in New York, and eliminates traditional methods of verifying applicants (like two years of tax returns as proof of income).
This suburban Detroit city has done an excellent job in recent years of diversifying from its traditional roots in the automotive industry.
Some predict that self - driving cars will replace both traditional public transportation and conventional cars in cities, transforming urban transportation into a network of interconnected vehicles to effectively eliminate traffic.
«The traditional workspace is being redefined in gateway cities across the globe, as evolving business practices increase demand for flexible office space,» said Anthony Myers, Blackstone's head of European real estate.
Alicia Glen, the city's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said Amazon would probably get hardly any tax breaks if it chose to locate its second headquarters in Midtown or Lower Manhattan, the city's two traditional business centers.
Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon has introduced free, two - hour delivery from Whole Foods stores to its Prime members in four cities, offering a taste of how the e-commerce giant could upend the traditional grocery business now that it owns a national chain.
On top of the high startup costs, a traditional office space in New York City costs a minimum of $ 15,000 when rent, taxes, utilities, and other expenses are taken into account.
At the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.
Trading stocks online is made possible today through the use of online stock brokerages, which operate almost exactly like traditional stock brokerages full of professionals who place your orders with the system (i.e. the big boys in downtown New York City on Wall Street).
No traditional lender was able to beat the top rates among online lenders in any city.
In some American cities, peer - to - peer taxi services have been banned after lobbying by traditional taxi firms.
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.
In contrast, low priority was given to spending for cities and rural communities, and for diversifying the provincial economy; that is building an economy that is broader than the traditional industries of energy and agriculture through targeted government investment and tax incentives.
Traditional financial centers such as London and New York are witnessing increasing pressure from Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shenzhen which are quickly becoming front runners in the fintech race.
In fact, platforms such as Alibaba Group's Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com are already aggressively expanding their range to less - developed cities, where they have displaced many traditional advertising and marketing outlets as sources of consumer information.
Now that many African Americans in cities like Atlanta were foreclosed on during the subprime crisis, many of them have bad credit as a result — which means they can't buy homes the traditional way, and so are being offered contract - for - deed payments once again.
Although online shopping companies have created hundreds of thousands of jobs, they have not directly made up for the losses at traditional retailers, and the new jobs tend to be concentrated in a small number of large cities.
Oaxaca City offers modern supermarkets in addition to the large and traditional open markets in the central area.
The Secular City helped accelerate the secularization of American elite culture, which created not only new openings in the public square for more - traditional religious bodies but also new fault lines in our politics» fault lines that are as visible as this morning's headlines and op - ed pages.
The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism which had no sense of the sacredness of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation of the industrial workers and dehumanization of peoples» lives in the cities of India.
Unlike the traditional sitcoms based in New York and centering around the love lives of 20 - somethings, this new show explores the afterglow of settling down in your 40s... and still living in an affluent city.
Unfortunately, due to the rise of the more evangelical - style, «southern U.S.» baptist imports, along with other varieties of Baptist churches that are very much untraditional, the traditional Baptist style appears to be dying away and only a few traditional churches remain, most of which probably existing in metropolitan cities.
It is worth noting that that New Urbanists derive their ideas about public space and formal order in large part from traditional cities in which churches and their ancillary institutions have been key players.
And can we learn once again to be happy in traditional towns and cities — not only as a moral antidote to individualism, inequality and the misuse of environmental resources, and not only as an aesthetic antidote to suburban sprawl, but also for the sake of the genuine goods and pleasures (including both communal belonging and individual freedom) of traditional urban life?
In contrast to suburbia, the traditional city is a complex institution designed to address and transform the unpleasant aspects of human life by means of community, culture and civil society.
The formal characteristics of traditional towns and urban neighborhoods are easily learned by attending carefully to the most beloved cities and neighborhoods in the world.
In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).
Powerful interest groups in many places, especially large cities, are often antagonistic to the traditional religious values of family, sexual self - control, objective morality, and individual responsibility.
If Jesus and his father Joseph were carpenters (whether we understand that in the traditional sense of working with wood, or as Ray Vander Laan and others suggest, stone masons who perhaps helped build the Roman administrative city of Sepphoris), were they paid with animals and produce or with silver?
Recently, in a city in Syria, an Islamist group imposed on Christian citizens the dhimma, the traditional «agreement» governing relations with Christians in Islamic law.
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