Sentences with phrase «next century cities»

«If you work a second shift as a parent, and can never talk on the phone, it's problematic, but if you can text, that's a game changer,» says Deb Socia, executive director of Next Century Cities and former executive director of Tech Goes Home, an initiative to help improve technology access among low income parents.

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His successors welcomed Jews expelled by Spain in 1492, and for the next four - and - a-half centuries three religious communities» Christian Greeks, Muslim Turks, and Sephardic Jews» shared the city.

Christian scripture depicts the end of the human pilgrimage as a heavenly city, the New Jerusalem; and the relationship between this world and the next was articulated paradigmatically for Christians in the fifth century in St. Augustine's classic The City of city, the New Jerusalem; and the relationship between this world and the next was articulated paradigmatically for Christians in the fifth century in St. Augustine's classic The City of City of God.

Nearly 1 million rent - stabilized New York City tenants face the lowest increases in nearly half a century when the Rent Guidelines Board meets next week.

Happy days are coming for nearly 1 million rent - stabilized New York City tenants, who face the lowest increases in nearly half a century when the Rent Guidelines Board meets next week.

Given how much bigger and more common cities are likely to become over the next century, we'll need to change them even further.

Assur, a 4500 - year - old temple - studded Assyrian city where kings and queens were laid to rest for centuries, is likely the next target, say archaeologists, who are desperately trying to piece together the extent of the damage.

Over the next four centuries, this blossomed into the international financial and cultural powerhouse that is New York City today — one that still draws people from all over the world to settle here.

Extreme weather like droughts and large tropical cyclones would become more common, fragile ecosystems like coral reefs would be at risk of destruction and polar ice melting would swamp many coastal cities over the next century.

The good news is that hurricanes might become more likely to miss the city over the next three centuries.

The Basilica Cistern, located in the crowded Eminönü district of Istanbul next to the Hagia Sophia, was built to provide water for the city of Istanbul during the reign of Emperor Justinian I in the 6th century

Next Stana Katic Slideshow: 68th Annual DGA Awards 2016 - Arrivals - Century City California United States - Saturday 6th February 2016

Next Alex Garland Slideshow: 68th Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards - Press Room - Century City California United States - Saturday 6th February 2016

Next Mena Suvari Slideshow: 68th Annual DGA Awards 2016 - Arrivals - Century City California United States - Saturday 6th February 2016

And the most dramatic of the moves will take place in the city's Lanning Square neighborhood next fall, when the KIPP charter network will move out of the trailers and into a gleaming brick - and - glass school, absorbing the one district school — the century - old Whittier School that is closing outright under Rouhanifard's plan.

Gary Middle College, run by the same company as 21st Century Charter School, will open next year as the city's eighth charter school.

Source: Toyota Press Release is on Page 2 Toyota to Debut Next - generation Century at Tokyo Motor Show 2017 Toyota City, Japan, October 4, 2017 — Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is scheduled to showcase the new Century (to be released in the middle of 2018) at the 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017, taking place from October 25 through November 5 at Tokyo Big Sight.

InterContinental Century City The InterContinental Century City Hotel is located on the Avenue of the Stars, next door to Fox Studios and adjacent to Beverly Hills.

In the following century a new emperor nominated Kyoto as Japan's capital city; a position it would hold for the next thousand years.

Next stop is the 17th - century Chiesa di Santa Teresa, with its restrained Neoclassical façade and to finish visit the Piazza del Duomo, where the city's cathedral boasts a tall, tapering bell tower, stained glass windows, and a marble altar decorated with lapis lazuli.

BAD is in the beating heart of Catania: in a XIX century building, next to the historical fish market «la Pescheria» and within a stone's throw of the Cathedral and main monuments of the city.

The next morning you undertake a guided tour of this historic city, taking in such wondrous sights as the famous Brandenburg Gate, the 19th century Reichstag Building, built to house the Imperial Council of the former German Empire, and the ruins of the Wall which once split this city down the middle.

This converted 18th - century mansion is located in the Jewish quarter of Córdoba, just next to the old city walls.

Spend the afternoon and next morning checking the city's mix of 18th - century and Socialist - era architecture.

J101 Waterstone is a luxury self - catering holiday apartment in a modern upmarket complex next to Intaka Island Wetlands in Century City.

In gallery news: David Zwirner now represents the Joan Mitchell Foundation, with an exhibition planned for next year in the gallery's New York space — «The gallery is proud to be entrusted to help with the extraordinary legacy of Joan Mitchell, one of the most important and original American painters to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century», Zwirner commented; Lehmann Maupin have announced representation of the Estate of Heidi Bucher — «Her exploration of spaces — often designated as feminine, particularly domestic environments and objects — is very much in line with Lehmann Maupin's programming and closely ties into the work of artists such as Do Ho Suh and Liza Lou,» director Anna Stothart said; New York's James Cohan Gallery represents Matthew Ritchie; LA's Kayne Griffin Corcoran now represents painter Mary Obering (her work is on show at their booth at Frieze New York); London's White Cube have opened an office on New York's Upper East Side; and Mexico City gallery kurimanzutto also opened a space in New York's Upper East Side yesterday, inaugurated with new work by Abraham Cruzvillegas.

This is also a place where a lot can happen, and I think it's destined now in the next 20 years to be the lead city for the 21st century, mainly because we have gone through a lot of trauma and sorted it out.

2014 Painter, Painter: Dan Perfect, Fiona Rae, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK; Southampton City Art Gallery, UK Fiona Rae: Zeichnungen, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin 2013 Fiona Rae: New Paintings, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France Fiona Rae: New Paintings, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK 2012 - 13 Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century, Leeds Art Gallery, UK; The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK; Towner, Eastbourne, UK 2011 Fiona Rae, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2006 You are the Young and the Hopeless, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA 2002 Fiona Rae, Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, France

Works on paper will be exhibited next to a new freestanding glass mirror panel depicting a 14th Century map of one of the ancient cities of the Crusades.

Finding ways to keep such cities functional — and in particular mobile — as the human growth spurt hits a crest in the next few decades is vitally important if humanity is to experience a relatively smooth journey in what some have called «the century of the city.»

I've just watched a vid by him on U-tube where he states in a calm, quiet voice that «Hundreds of cities will be underwater by 2100» and that; «All of Antarctica could melt within a century» but the coup de grais was his claim that «Over the next few centuries, the oceans will boil away, like they did on Venus».

Some studies have concentrated on conditions for particular coastal cities such as Charleston or Seattle, where the once - in -500-year floods could in the next century happen 273 times more often.

Sea levels over the past few hundred years have been rising by around 8 inches per century, so the Sea level around New York City will rise by about a foot over the next hundred years, and this has nothing to do with global warming.

According to the NYTimes blog Green Inc., the Dutch are designing floating cities to replace or augment land - based cities as the global sea level rises over the next few centuries.

Researchers used two climate models to project rising temperatures over the next century and applied those results to current safety procedures used in determining the viability of a host city.

The eight - year - old library building incorporates the municipal offices for the city of Clarington and was designed to complement the 19th century town hall next door.