Sentences with phrase «about urban issues»

Chicago, IL About Blog I am a Senior Policy Analyst at the Chicago - based Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, and write about urban issues here and in several other publications, including City Observatory.

Chicago, IL About Blog I am a Senior Policy Analyst at the Chicago - based Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, and write about urban issues here and in several other publications, including City Observatory.

Graham Hill, for his enthusiasm and his continuous fount of ideas and initiatives; Kaid Benfield, Steve Mouzon and Mikael Colville - Andersen for profoundly influencing my thinking about urban issues; Ken Rother and Ben Boyd, business associates who became true friends; Emily Murphy and the MNN team who threw us a lifeline and kept TreeHugger alive in tough circumstances; The TreeHugger Team, the writers and editors I have worked with her over the years; And most of all my wife, Kelly Rossiter, for putting up with all of this.

She adds: «When I first started... they [fellow journalists] thought I was militant, because at that time you weren't really hearing a lot of people raising their hand asking about urban issues on a consistent basis.»

Not exact matches

But while we certainly haven't solved every issue facing urban residents, there is an urgency and energy toward improving economic opportunity in cities that is lacking in the discussion about rural communities.

More pejoratively: The term «tech bro» also refers to a tech company employee who acts entitled, lacks self - awareness and is tone deaf about sensitive issues such as the realities of urban poverty.

As a result, since 1990, only about 1 million HECMs have been issued, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, with almost half of those originating between 2007 and 2011, when the financial crisis hammered Americans» retirement savings.

The State Department issued a statement about the call, saying «the secretary made clear the United States and its partners hold Russia responsible for this situation, including the use of incendiary and bunker buster bombs in an urban environment, a drastic escalation that puts civilians at great risk.»

There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

I really loved Natasha's (Natural Urban Mama's) post about this, http://blog.naturalurbanmamas.com/?p=1998, because she calls attention to the fact that women are feeling so guilty and ashamed about their parenting choices that they are projecting it onto this issue when it is so obviously not about that.

I am sure that when these leaders wake up each morning, they are not thinking about foreign policy, but about domestic social unrest, the lack of provision of a proper welfare system, about how to deal with the issue of internal migrants (some 200 million people on the move from villages to urban areas demanding the same rights as urban locals), and so on.

Cuomo stuffed a $ 1.5 million line item into his election - year budget to create a new «School of Urban and Labor Studies» at the CUNY that will offer more courses to union workers and other students wanting to learn about labor issues.

Tenney in a statement suggested her comment was being taken out of context, insisting she was talking about the issues surrounding urban gun crimes.

Gov. Cuomo stuffed a $ 1.5 million line item into his election - year budget to create a new «School of Urban and Labor Studies» at the City University of New York that will offer more courses to union workers and other students wanting to learn about labor issues.

Menin said that, if elected, her top issue would be education, which she spoke about as an urban planning issue as much as a pedagogical one.

Holloway, a former editor at SA, uses the little - known story of the man behind Manhattan's street grid to talk about larger issues surrounding urban planning and the way humans «tame» the natural world.

The work applies expertise in ecology, hydrology, geography, and the social sciences to decision - making about urban landscapes and the valuation of ecosystem services, among other policy issues.

In the wake of the presidential election, Anna Scott, a Ph.D. student who works on climate and urban issues, expressed concern about the fate of the planet and her career.

NYC About Blog We The Urban's issue - based magazine and daily web features aim to capture and shine a light on multicultural vanguard creatives who push boundaries in fashion, art, music, and various other respective creative fields.

NYC About Blog We The Urban's issue - based magazine and daily web features aim to capture and shine a light on multicultural vanguard creatives who push boundaries in fashion, art, music, and various other respective creative fields.

Washington, DC About Blog City Parks Blog is a joint effort of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and the City Parks Alliance to chronicle the news and issues of the urban park movement.

Students are learning about urban planning and «liveability» issues © Shutterstock / Olga Kashubin

A story about school construction in urban districts in the July 14, 1999, issue of Education Week misidentified Stan Childress, a Detroit public schools spokesman.

We recently had the opportunity to sit down with her to learn more about program she designed and the issues facing urban educators today:

Urban schools cope with complex issues, so the more the staff, the press, and the public understand about a district, the easier it can be to build support.

The two - day event — attended by about 100 faculty, alums, and USP mentors — included panels on vital issues in urban education, a reception honoring Peterkin, and an evening of jazz music.

Because of an editing and production error, a story in the Oct. 29 issue about urban school districts» progress in hiring certified teachers misstated on second reference Carolyn Snowbarger's position.

The initial motivation for young white teachers entering urban schools appears to be the same as the people I interviewed, that is, they are concerned about racism as a moral issue and they want to make a difference.

The issue has raised arguments about equity for urban and «property - poor» school districts, about Missouri's ability to compete for business with neighboring states, and about the entire system of distributing state aid to education.

Meanwhile, about 80 percent of urban schools cite credit recovery as an issue of importance, according to the International Association for K — 12 Online Learning.

Against a backdrop of the opportunities provided by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the challenges for education posed by the new federal administration, the Annenberg Institute for School Report has released an issue of Voices in Urban Education (VUE) and an online supplement that proposes performance assessment as a personalized and rigorous alternative Read more about Performance Assessment: Fostering the Learning of Teachers and Students (update)-LSB-...]

CUBE Summer Issues Seminar attendees engage in discussions about issues affecting urban school distIssues Seminar attendees engage in discussions about issues affecting urban school distissues affecting urban school districts.

Ben then takes issue with the growing consensus that charters work, by stating that students in urban charter schools «perform just about as well» as students at district schools.

One of my biggest issues about Adamowski has been that he targets urban (or minority) school districts for his so - called reforms that amount to no more than institutionalized racism.

For the past two years I've been blogging about education for Greater Greater Washington, a communal blog that focuses on urban issues in DC.

Washington, DC About Blog City Parks Blog is a joint effort of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and the City Parks Alliance to chronicle the news and issues of the urban park movement.

Urban Trailblazers >> Crissy Field Center Students spend their paid internship learning about environmental issues through workshops, field trips, and service projects while gaining valuable skills in their «first job.»

Washington, DC About Blog City Parks Blog is a joint effort of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and the City Parks Alliance to chronicle the news and issues of the urban park movement.

In the last ever issue of Develop we speak to CCP CEO Hilmar Pétursson about how developing for an online community can be more like urban planning than game design, and take a deep look at the state of the current jobs market

, Minneapolis, MN 2016 From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art 2016 Into Quarterly, Minneapolis issue 2014 Perspectives and Parallels: Expanding Interpretive Foundations with American Indian Curators and Writers, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth 2014 The Open Studios Press, New American Paintings, Issue No. 113, Midwest 2014 Taté Walker, Native Peoples, Urban Arts Scene, August 2014 issue 2014 Dyani White Hawk and Joe D. Horse Capture, Mni Sota: Reflections of Time and Place, All My Relations Arts and Afton Press 2013 Michele Corriel, Western Art and Architecture, Ones to Watch: Spotlighting the Works of Dyani White Hawk, February / March Issue 2012 Suzanne Deats and Kitty Leaken, Contemporary Native American Artissue 2014 Perspectives and Parallels: Expanding Interpretive Foundations with American Indian Curators and Writers, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth 2014 The Open Studios Press, New American Paintings, Issue No. 113, Midwest 2014 Taté Walker, Native Peoples, Urban Arts Scene, August 2014 issue 2014 Dyani White Hawk and Joe D. Horse Capture, Mni Sota: Reflections of Time and Place, All My Relations Arts and Afton Press 2013 Michele Corriel, Western Art and Architecture, Ones to Watch: Spotlighting the Works of Dyani White Hawk, February / March Issue 2012 Suzanne Deats and Kitty Leaken, Contemporary Native American ArtIssue No. 113, Midwest 2014 Taté Walker, Native Peoples, Urban Arts Scene, August 2014 issue 2014 Dyani White Hawk and Joe D. Horse Capture, Mni Sota: Reflections of Time and Place, All My Relations Arts and Afton Press 2013 Michele Corriel, Western Art and Architecture, Ones to Watch: Spotlighting the Works of Dyani White Hawk, February / March Issue 2012 Suzanne Deats and Kitty Leaken, Contemporary Native American Artissue 2014 Dyani White Hawk and Joe D. Horse Capture, Mni Sota: Reflections of Time and Place, All My Relations Arts and Afton Press 2013 Michele Corriel, Western Art and Architecture, Ones to Watch: Spotlighting the Works of Dyani White Hawk, February / March Issue 2012 Suzanne Deats and Kitty Leaken, Contemporary Native American ArtIssue 2012 Suzanne Deats and Kitty Leaken, Contemporary Native American Artists.

The work of Meyer Shapiro was fundamental to her thinking about modern art and her interest in «social questions, urban issues, and the way in which abstraction could be understood as a machine aesthetic».

Going Green II is an annual exhibition that supports not only an eco-friendly environment but raises issues about the current trends and future fate of urban landscapes.

Catalogues — Publications 2015 «SUPER SUPERSTUDIO», exhibition catalogue, PAC - Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Milan «Ärger im Paradise», exhibition catalogue of the exhibition, Bundeskunsthalle 2014 «The State of a Ghost While Hosted as a Guest», publication from the Villa Romana Fellows, Villa Romana Editions, published by Argo Books ISBN 978 -3-942700-62-7 «Kushtetuta # 2 About Mums & Dads», edited by Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano, Self - published zines «TRANSLATION ACTS > PERFORMING POLITICS», Concept by Ifrex, Edited by Ifrex and Fotini Kushtetuta, Published by KOSOVO 2.0, Edited by Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano «MAPPING EVERYTHING», Institut für Raumexperimente (Berlin) and Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur (ETH Zurich) Project Conception: Olafur Eliasson and Guther Vogt, Nicola Eiffler 2012 «STUDIO MAGAZINE # 2», an Architecture and Urbanism Publication 2010 «Ottos impossible talks / Lets start to implement little errors Imposible topics / rescued futures,» Otto Rössler with the Institut für Raumexperimente, edited by Julius von Bismarck, Jeremias Holliger, Laura McLardy, Mathias Sohr, Alvaro Urbano, Euan Williams, Graphic design and concept book by bureau - aeiou 2009 «UNPLANNED: Research and Experiments at the Urban Scale», concept book by Superfront Graphic design by: Do not bend Kønst magazine issue n. 4 Erasing Darkness Pidgin - Magazine issue n. 6 (text by Jose Esparza)

CROSSING ARTS GALLERY Exhibition Dates: June 14 - August 14, 2012 Opening Reception: June 16th, 3 - 6 pm ARTISTS: Marietta Patricia Leis Peter Hiers Lorin Roser and Nina Kuo Christina Massey Callie Hirsch Elly Cho Yeon Ji Yoo Going Green II is an annual exhibition that supports not only an eco-friendly environment but raises issues about the current trends and future fate of urban...

In the countryside there can be as few as 15 or 20 pollens,» Olivier Darne, an artist and urban beekeeper who create bee - related art installations to raise awareness about the issue.

Matt Hickman did a great job of reviewing America's 9 most at - risk open urban spaces on sister site MNN, but this year TCLF goes into detail about the themes, the problems at the cause of our loss of cultural landscapes, the issues behind them.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the GOP presidential primaries, where, with the exception of one particularly stupid Gingrichian comment about putting inner city kids to work as janitors, cities and urban issues have scarcely even been mentioned.

The authors of the study, published in the fall issue of the journal Human - Wildlife Conflicts, concluded that the extra weight caused urban females to reproduce about three years earlier than their counterparts in the wild.

Other important issues — Dan might be able to say more about urban heat islands, and how they might grow in the future, and be exacerbated by possible large temperature increases.