Sentences with phrase «abandoned city lots»

For Columbia University epidemiologist Charles Branas, one answer is a relatively simple and inexpensive infrastructure improvement of derelict or abandoned city lots.

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With an estimated 20 square miles of vacant land, Detroit's abandoned lots are roughly the size of Manhattan according to the Detroit Future City Report.

In 2011 my partner and I fed 7 or so families a week from an overgrown abandoned lot in the city.

Fed up with the city «s broken promise to remove abandoned cars from a lakefront parking lot, the president of the Chicago Park District board wants to withdraw an offer to the city to use the lot for holding cars towed under winter parking restrictions now in effect.

City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) laced up his working boots Tuesday morning and took to the vacant lot near the intersection of an abandoned corner property, at 24 - 19 Francis Lewis Blvd. in Whitestone, alongside property owner Robin Singh to help spread -LSB-...]

Captivated by the idea of backyard self - sufficiency, Novella Carpenter transforms an abandoned lot next to her ramshackle house in inner - city Oakland into a wonderful urban farm.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

It's hard to separate truth from legend with all of the rumors that swirl around the game's launch, but there are stories about people being mugged for their copies (an exceptionally rare occurrence even in the busiest cities in Japan), offices that were supposed to be packed with workers appearing abandoned, and a whole lot of empty chairs in classrooms.

We get a lot of information about creating the illusion of an abandoned New York City.

On Monday, police search in an abandoned lot on Antelope Street Extension, Belize City, where they came across a.22 revolver pistol.

Meanwhile police in Belize City conducted a search in an abandoned lot in Pitts Alley yesterday afternoon.

Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan's homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Precity's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State PreCity (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press).

The wood encasing the speakers was salvaged from the Treme area of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and the installation was first shown during the city's Prospect biennial in 2014 in an abandoned Treme warehouse — a space Simmons liked because «[y] ou feel the history in this room in a lot of ways... and you start to think, «What was here?

Margaret Morton's photographs of the dwellings that homeless individuals have assembled in public parks, vacant lots, along the waterfronts, beneath the streets, and in the abandoned buildings of New York City are combined with oral histories in Glass House, her book about thirty - five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Press).

Suffering economic slumps in the 60s and 70s, Bushwick was finally eviscerated by widespread looting and arson after the 1977 power outage in the New York City area, resulting in blocks of abandoned buildings, empty lots, and open - air drug supermarkets.

In many cities, residual spaces like alleyways and abandoned parking lots are largely under - utilized and could be turned into productive gardens, affordable housing or even bike parking.

This video tells the story of several different New Orleans residents who came back to the city after the storm to rebuild and start making food in the city's abandoned lots.

During this portion of training, we make sure students have a chance to drive in both rural and city areas, not just cruise down abandoned streets or in parking lots.