Sentences with phrase «urban growth at»

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... China has targets of GDP growth around 7.5 percent and a consumer price index (CPI) increase of about 3.5 percent in 2014, with 10 million more urban jobs to keep the urban unemployment rate at a maximum of 4.6 percent.

The trend is also helping spur growth at other local online retailers such as Karmaloop.com, which sells urban streetware over the Web and is also considering a public stock offering move to Wall Street in its near future.

This strong growth - driven by both occupancy and rate improvement and which was even stronger at upper upscale, urban, and luxury properties - comes at a time when economic data points have called into question the near - term sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery and would appear to demonstrate that as yet no reigns have been placed on corporate travel.

But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).

Key partners include: Greater Buffalo - Niagara Regional Transportation Council (GBNRTC), Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT); Erie County, Niagara County, City of Buffalo, City of Niagara Falls, Association of Erie County Governments, Niagara County Supervisors Association, University at Buffalo Regional Institute and Urban Design Project (UBRI / UDP), Daemen College Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement (CSCCE), VOICE Buffalo, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Buffalo (LISC), Western New York Environmental Alliance (WNYEA), Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, The John R. Oishei Foundation, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), Belmont Housing Resources for WNY, Inc. (Belmont), Buffalo Niagara Partnership (BNP), Empire State Development, New York State Department of State, Division of Smart Growth, Niagara County Department of Social Services, and Niagara Falls Housing Authority.

The National Population Commission (NPC) has put Nigeria's current population at 198 million people with urban population growing at an average annual growth rate...

The findings underscore the way legal policies — such as the growth of the U.S. prison population from the 1980s — can have a ripple effect in communities, says Nancy La Vigne, director of the Justice Policy Center at the Washington, D.C. — based Urban Institute.

Air quality is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent, urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

Alcock's anger at the destruction of the Arizona desert by urban growth and the cattle industry dominates The Masked Bob - white Rides Again.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

Part documentary, part photographic survey, part exposé, «Beijing Besieged by Waste» is artist Wang Jiuliang's highly personal look at the urban Chinese landscape in the face of extreme growth and general disregard for the environment.

A new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, launched today at the UN in New York, reveals this is largely due to the growth and concentration of urban populations, particularly in vulnerable countries.

In our leadership sessions at the National Urban Alliance (NUA), we have met many fearless leaders who are able to take what they learn from our leadership training and apply it in their schools in ways that facilitate growth in teachers and students.

While the growth of charters has mostly been in large urban districts, in 14 of those cities, such as San Antonio, Detroit, and Philadelphia, charters now enroll at least 30 percent of children in public schools.

The 29 - acre site in Sherwood, a bedroom community at the edge of Portland's Urban Growth Boundary, is adjacent to new residential neighborhoods.

New data from the Urban Institute look at the question: Is the nation's largest private school choice program fueling the growth of academically dubious schools?

Smaller urban crawlers were a trend this year at New York, as Chevy rolled out the Trax ute, which will join the line late this year and carmakers increasingly are concentrating on the segment for growth.

What this list does offer is a glimpse into the urban areas where the economy is on the move and employers are — at least on average — charting a path for growth.

But with strong price growth in the last decade or so, that balance has shifted, says Tsur Somerville, director of the UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate at the Sauder School of Business.

Walking around, you also get a much better taste of the local culture — with urban growth these days, most tourist attractions are buried in the heart of thriving communities, but due to the high tourist pressure at the attraction, you're unlikely to meet locals on the scene (unless they're trying to sell you something!)

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Many cities are looking at urban density and considering how to deal with the rapid projected growth.

The properties, to be located in Times Square and Chelsea in Manhattan, and downtown White Plains in nearby Westchester County, build on Choice Hotels growth plans in the upscale lodging segment and the expansion of Cambria Suites in key urban markets, offering business travellers a stylish, new all - suite hotel product with exceptional services and amenities at a great value.

Expressionism emerged at the beginning of the 20th century as an artistic response to their Modernist malaise, an increasingly apathetic relationship with the physical world as a result of industrialization, urban growth, and other sometimes drastic societal shifts.

In March 2012 the Pratt Design Incubator, which is a part of the Center for Sustainable Design Studies at Pratt Institute, was cited in the Center for the Urban Future report «Designing New York's Future,» as a prime example of an initiative that fuels new businesses and spurs economic growth.

Photographer Alan Gaynor and painter Bob Tomlinson present flowers in a new light.Renee Borkow shows urban nature and Arlene Finger depicts limbs of trees reaching up in search of new leaves at the start of spring, a time for growth and renewal.

Artist Statement: Signs of Growth: Urban Food, is a site - specific installation / performance that took place in October 16 -18, 2009, in the context of Art in Odd Places festival, organized by Simonetta Moro, Eve Mosher and Tatfoo Tan with students at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts.The work entailed identifying and marking «green sites» — or places that potentially might support locally grown food — with signs along 14th street, from Union Square to 10th Avenue.

In line with the ups and downs of Irish prosperity, at least in places like Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Belfast, landscape artists were employed to record views of the urban landscape by which to appreciate the growth and architectural detail of the city.

Today it is at the heart of discussions about how to manage urban growth through sustainable development.

Living many years at the margin of old logging, more recent logging, a ridgeline overlooking an alluvial valley where a small city is growing and similar cities extend to the horizon in inland coastal range mountains in CA, I am reminded often of the coolness in the tall forest contrasting to the heat generated on sunny days where forests are discontinuous because of logging or absent because of urban growth.

If he gets to speak in Tacloban, I hope Francis recognizes how the scope of the social calamity in that coastal city was far more the result of deep poverty and poorly governed urban growth than any shift in typhoon patterns — which really haven't changed at all in that region in recent decades.

Likewise, investigators have also looked at sites across rural and urban China, which has experienced rapid growth in urbanisation over the past 30 years and is therefore very likely to show UHI.

The report looks in detail at urban design, energy and land use, and concludes that «all countries at all levels of income now have the opportunity to build lasting economic growth at the same time as reducing the immense risks of climate change.»

So they say CO2 will rise at a certain rate, albedo changes from deliberate land - use changes including urban growth may or may not be specified, but given their assumptions, that is the projected change.

Now, being a curious bunny, Eli wanted to see where this was, and he had a map from «Trends in twentieth century tree growth at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, USA from Bunn, Graumlich and Urban to go on.

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And at the moment, urban growth is unplanned, meaning cities are set to become less and less efficient, with worsening transport links.

It is worth noting that the Laverton, Richmond and Townsville sites are all near urban growth corridors — in particular, the appearance of an urban signal at Laverton is recent and probably linked to the construction of the new suburb of Williams Landing to the west of the site from 2008 onwards.

The power density of sustainable annual tree growth in temperate climates is at best equal to 2 % of the power density of energy consumption for traditional urban heating, cooking, and manufactures.

One of the study's author's, Dabo Guan, professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia's School of International Development, UK, says the growth in the carbon footprint of the urban middle class and the rich in China is a big problem that has to be tackled.

While the profession is naturally concerned at the growth of Canadian law graduates and the explosion of NCA applicants, many of whom are Canadians who were unable to pursue a law degree here, the intense competition for articling positions and associate placements is a largely urban - suburban phenomenon.

For while the large urban public defender and district attorneys offices have been a mainstay of employment for graduates of American law schools since the war on crime began in the late»60s, the long war may be winding down (at least in growth terms).

Looking at urban design, transportation, growth, the built environment and more.

That means two things where home insurance is concerned: 1) there are a lot of new arrivals in Arizona looking for homeowners insurance, and 2) with that level of population growth, the wildland - urban interface is expanding at an alarming rate.

Opportunities this year include park maintenance in Hells Canyon, Idaho (with transportation by jet - boat up the Snake River Canyon), forestry service at the New York Botanical Garden (a 50 - acre urban old - growth forest) and native - bird habitat restoration on the Big Island of Hawaii (with hiking in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park).

Looking at urban design, transportation, growth, the built environment and more.

For one, the best suburbs historically have outperformed urban submarkets in terms of both rent growth and investment returns, as we laid out at length in this research article.

The Urban Land Institute and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, among others, are looking at the connection between America's growing weight problem and suburban growth.

During his two years as top official for the county, which encompasses the high - growth Orlando area, he appointed a task force to look at sprawl and urban redevelopment issues and another to look at affordable housing issues.

I like the Portland market for many reasons, not the least of which is how the Urban Growth Boundary hems in expansion, forcing density while at the same time people continue to move here in droves.