Sentences with phrase «acting as a public space»

The focus of the house is an internal courtyard which is a Chinese tradition, enhancing the building's connection to the street and neighboring infrastructure, acting as a public space, providing a resting place for visitors and others passing by to stop and rest.»

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In its own way, the Declaration argues for religious freedom as not simply entailing private acts of worship, but also the guarantee of a public space for the institutional expression of religious commitment.

If we always shove them off into noise proof child spaces, they may have the very important opportunity to «just be kids», but they will not have the opportunity to learn through observation how people act in public and may just take their noisiness directly from the playgrounds right into the bars (as they come of age) and then out onto the streets, thereby disrupting my sleep and everyone else's with their shouts and music.

Yet many supposedly intelligent and reasonable people acted as though they were entering into a real debate on breastfeeding in public spaces, as though it were possible a valid argument might exist against a child's right to be fed.

As Mr Justice Singh pointed out, if the Crown is not bound by the Act, then this could mean that «a large number and type of public buildings and spaces would fall outside the scope of the Act» - in effect depriving government employees of the legal protections contained in the legislation.

With the growth in the commercialisation of public space, through sell - offs, a Peaceful Protest Act would also create a limited right of access to quasi-public land for the purposes of protest — as Tom Watson unsuccessful amendment to the Protection of Freedoms Bill attempted last year.

Pursuant to The D.C. School Reform Act of 1995 (Sec 38 - 1802.06) as amended, enrollment in public charter schools is open to all students who are residents of the District of Columbia, and if space is available, to non-resident students who pay tuition at the rate established by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education.

Dogs functioning as ESAs are not approved for partnership in public spaces like stores and restaurants, but there are provisions for them in housing via the Fair Housing Amendments Act and during travel via the Air Carrier Access Act.

In 2009 Hefuna began a site - specific intervention series called Mapping Vienna, which involved such acts as invading the Vienna Opera Ball — an event for the upper class held in a public space — dressed in a black cloak with the words «Patience,» «Beautiful,» and «Vienna,» stitched in large colorful letters.

We see the responsibility of the gallery as threefold: to work for the long - term development of each artist's career, acting as a liaison to international galleries and museums as well as placing works in collections; to create an historical archive for each artist; and to act as an accessible public space in which the exhibitions become an exemplary gesture of the power of subjectivity to the audience at large.

They see the responsibility of the gallery as three fold; to work for the long term development of each artists career, acting as a liaison to international galleries and museums as well as placing works in collections; to create an historical archive for each artist; and to act as an accessible public space in which the exhibitions become an exemplary gesture of the power of subjectivity to the audience at large.

Street: behind the cliché considers the particular section of public space called the street as a local theater, a stage on which the complex stratification of cultural codes is acted out and identity is formed.

The space between the work and its reception, and the act of making public — as with the publication of a text, a public screening or the public exhibition of art — become central, revealing processes, points of departure that develop in diverse, indeterminate directions.

Rather than act as the final judge of an artistic practice (as earlier art historians had done), Sandberg preferred to test, directly within the spaces of the museum and through the reactions of its public, the capacity of the work of art to connect with people and its political agency.

Acting as artist - architect, Bronstein imagines and plans his structures with the specific intention of exploring not only the demarcation of private and public spaces but also quietly critiquing the social and political elements that play into realizing magnificent feats of civil engineering.

As I've written before (Astonishing Views of a Luminous, Bustling Planet), thank goodness Congress had the wisdom to include in the Space Act of 1958 a requirement that the new agency communicate its findings to the public.

In dense cities and neighborhoods, green roofs can act as additional public spaces, albeit usually owned and managed by private parties.

Localities have authority over the built environment (e.g. through zoning and building codes); they can implement smart growth initiatives and increase public transportation alternatives; they act as first responders for climate impacts; they deploy green infrastructure such as increasing land for open space and parks; and they drive green economies by offering tax relief and other incentives.

Klemmt envisions the complex to act as an enclosed public space or park.

Our justice departments, attorneys general, law societies and bar associations must not overlook the potential of courthouse libraries as the space where their access to justice initiatives connect with the public, with the courthouse librarians acting as the trained ambassadors.

Below is information regarding the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA), including the Accessible Customer Service Standard, Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation (Employment Standard, Information and Communications Standard, Transportation Standard and the Design of Public Space Standard), the Built Environment Standard as well as a brief overview of the services we provide.

In fact, as an act of kindness to your fellow human beings, I'd ask you never to hold up a 15 - inch tablet at concerts or in other public spaces where views will be blocked.

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