Sentences with phrase «about urban renewal»

«We have talked at length about my urban renewal agenda and our message of economic revival, very much including our inner cities.

Ben Harper TreeHugger interviewed Ben in a four - part series; check out videos about urban renewal, the «nobility of finding the solution,» the importance of clean water (and surfing), and what hugging trees is all about.

Their project was about urban renewal: how to revitalize the community by re-watering sections of the Erie Canal that once ran through the city center.

Not exact matches

«There's a massive level of excitement about what it represents as a symbol of urban renewal, ambition for our city and recommitment to our downtown as the heart of it all,» says the 37 - year - old mayor.

Audible.com Founder Don Katz chats with CNBC's Brian Sullivan about how businesses can accelerate renewal to urban cities.

Now comes an even more comprehensive claim about the positive impact of these schools: For, according to two law professors at the University of Notre Dame, Margaret F. Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett, inner - city Catholic schools are important factors in urban renewal as builders of «social capital» on inner - urban areas.

People on the Lower East Side have been fighting about SPURA since at least 1967, when thousands of homes and businesses were bulldozed in the name of urban renewal.

Earlier this year, Council member Chin introduced legislation that would require the city to notify communities when urban renewal areas are about to expire.

By requiring public notification for expiring urban renewal areas and a publicly accessible website with information about currently and formerly designated urban renewal areas, this legislation would empower more communities to take action to protect their neighborhoods.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about Albany County's legislature voting to ban pharmacies from selling tobacco products and a vacant house that exploded Sunday in Schenectady that was owned by the city's urban renewal agency.

It's different from urban renewal — something instead about rebellion and the efficacy of rebellion as the basis for art.

Urban renewal was about to drastically alter her downtown neighborhood.

Both camps drew intellectual inspiration from brilliant women who wrote brilliant books — Jane Jacobs, whose «Death and Life of Great American Cities» assaulted the conventional wisdom about «urban renewal; and Rachel Carson, whose «Silent Spring» helped give birth to the environmental movement by documenting the harmful effect of pesticides.