Sentences with phrase «about urban life»

When designed infrastructure or, indeed, anything involving public space, do we not also bear an enormous responsibility on our shoulders for teaching about urban life and development?

As part of the Lab's ongoing global dialogue about urban life, this exhibition considers the major themes and ideas that emerged in each city as a foundation for exploring perspectives on urbanism today.

Sleek design and refreshingly simple yet modern furnishings give the hotel a peaceful and relaxing feel, a great place to forget about urban life and to let the horizon mesmerise you.

For older teens, a raw and bittersweet collection of poems about urban life can be found in Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis L. Crisler.

A beautiful, energizing picture book about urban life.

Has anyone in recent memory written such complex, insightful and entertaining novels about urban life in America as Richard Price?

The mood was all about urban life.

«City officials may not understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness, climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.

He co-founded City Living Detroit, a nonprofit organizations that promotes and educates the public about urban living, after which real estate became a natural career progression.

Not exact matches

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

I'm very much looking forward to participating in this forum at the Urban Institute on Monday, where I'll be on a panel talking about the role of higher education in both the economy and the lives of the people in the economy.

It's not the «fault» of those that live in rural areas that their influence is so exagerated; I think a large part of it was the PC's DELIBERATE gerrymandering of constituencies (about 20 or so years ago) to ensure that any urban opposition would be diluted by rural supporters.

The index doesn't reflect changes in the quality of items over time and can't tell us much about the spending patterns of the poor, or of people living outside of urban areas.

A sense of community has been restored when residents of urban neighborhoods have been given responsibility for improving their own lives and a voice about decisions in their communities.

Governments in most Third World countries, supported by development policies in First and Second World countries, have been concerned about supplying sophisticated forms of energy for industrialization and urban life.

We may have something to learn from them about transforming our urban battlefields into communities that nurture life instead of throttling it.

There was also a need we saw within the urban context for life skills such as managing finances, so we decided to do something about it.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

About Marlynn: Marlynn Schotland keeps up with local food, drink, travel and culture on her blog, Urban Bliss Life, a division of her boutique creative communications studio, Urban Bliss Media.

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I thought about all of the vegan friendly restaurants I had read about, the history of the city itself, the architecture from neighborhood to neighborhood, the abundance of parks and murals that weave throughout the urban landscape, and of course, my favorite peoples who lived in Philadelphia that we were headed to see.

So despite living in an urban environment, I'm actually generally less concerned about break - ins than I am about other hazards because, 1) we are busy and despite our best efforts to move through the world mindfully, there have been instances where we have accidentally left something on, 2) we live in a side - by - side condo and more humans means more potential for hazards.

She blogs about what it's like to be a cool mama living in an urban area.

Our urban mama Megan is back, just in time for Valentine's Day, with a post all about the must have items all new parents need for date night — even if date night is simply in the living room!

One last thing we love about the Thule Urban Glide is how it glides, really living up to its name.

Contributing editor Amy Gates blogs about eco-friendly living, urban homesteading, attachment parenting and breastfeeding - including her experience of nursing while pregnant and tandem nursing, at Crunchy Domestic Goddess.

Contributing editor Amy Gates blogs about eco-friendly living, urban homesteading, attachment parenting and living with generalized anxiety disorder at Crunchy Domestic Goddess.

Rural communities are much more likely than urban populations to talk about the desire to keep their communities rooted, for there to be opportunities for their children to live and work close to where their parents live.

At 8:30 a.m., during a panel discussion about the MTA's five - year plan for construction and renovation projects, representatives of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA and the Urban Land Institute New York introduce an initiative titled «Keeping NY on Track: The Importance of the MTA Transit Network in a Changing World»; Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th floor, Helen & Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, NYU, 60 Washington Square S., Manhattan.

About Sibley Square WinnDevelopment is reshaping Downtown Rochester with a multi-year project to transform Sibley Square into a vibrant, mixed - use urban center, featuring the best apartment homes in Rochester, Class - A office space, green living, elegant landscaping, premier security systems and centralized transportation.

About half of the African - American population in the United States lives in the South, and the extent of the ongoing economic, family and cross-migration ties between the South and urban African - American populations in large American cities like Chicago, is greatly under - appreciated.

The political leaders are extolling and highlighting your examples, the urban dwellers are chanting your praises, the rural dwellers can not stop talking about your messianic interventions in their lives, the civil servants can not thank you enough, nor can mothers, children, traditional rulers and indeed every group or stratum of the state.

While on his way to meet with Miami residents about their experiences living in public housing, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson got a first - hand look.

The Well - Tempered City What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

Riding the subway uptown, I'd thought how much faster the physical environment of the metropolis is, compared with the slower world of Iowa City, and so when I arrived I asked Damasio if he'd ever thought about the neurological effects of urban life.

Future City Dongtan China watches over every drop of water On a small, thinly populated island about 14 miles off the coast of Shanghai, a city is rising that could spell salvation for the 1 billion people expected to live in China's urban areas by 2045.

But talk to them about their own little patch of environment — about the river at the bottom of their village, or the landscape that surrounds where they live, or the urban streetscape and the way in which it is fashioned — and they become really passionate.

Whether cities are seen as a problem or as part of the solution, one thing is clear: Our urban planet is here to stay, and the decisions we make today about how we build and live in cities will affect generations to come.

Joining me was Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser, author of two pieces, who spoke about how, done right, with an emphasis on education, the greater density of humanity afforded by urban living can help us innovate our way out of the problems facing us today.

The average carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, population - dense urban cities is about 50 percent below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to twice the average: a factor of four difference between lowest and highest locations.

Over 50 per cent of all Chinese people now live in urban areas, compared with about 20 per cent in 1980.

In the 1950s about one third of the world's population lived in cities, by the second decade of the new millennium this proportion had risen to about one half and it is projected that by 2050, almost three - quarters of us will live in urban, rather than rural or other, areas.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

It is well known that early - life conditions can have lifelong implications on fitness; little is however known about development in urban environments.

His work expands the conversation about ethnic neighborhoods beyond the Chinatowns and other urban «enclaves,» where poor residents of similar ethnicity have often lived because they lacked other choices.

So say two of the world's most recognizable icons for luxury and culture — the BMW Group and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation — which convened a gathering in the lobby of the Guggenheim Museum here Friday to provide details about the city's forthcoming BMW Guggenheim Lab, part of a social science project that aims to solicit input directly from the streets on how to improve urban living.

Californians are at particular risk from wildfire - related health impacts, because the state has the largest population in the U.S. living in wildland - urban interface (inhabited areas approaching wildland areas) where there is an elevated risk of being exposed to wildfires.14 More than 11 million people, about 30 percent of the California population, live in these wildland - urban interfaces.5

At the local homepage for Mobilities & Urban Studies at Aalborg University you can find information about social activities and living conditions in Aalborg, Denmark.

This made me think about the countless research studies out there pointing to the benefits of nature and the damaging effects of urban life and screen time, something that I have written about often but did not fully understand until this experience.