Sentences with phrase «as affluent city»

The film challenges the conceit of Wakanda as an affluent city on a hill, and when you see it surrounded by a world in preventable peril, it feels uncomfortable.

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In New York, San Francisco and other thriving cities, brokers are reporting sharply rising demand for luxury rentals, as affluent people who could afford to own decide there's no cachet anymore in being a homeowner, and lots of risk.

As a top wealth management hub, the city - state is a natural draw for the region's affluent people, a key target of Formula One sponsors such as Hugo Boss and Tag Heuer, a luxury LVMH branAs a top wealth management hub, the city - state is a natural draw for the region's affluent people, a key target of Formula One sponsors such as Hugo Boss and Tag Heuer, a luxury LVMH branas Hugo Boss and Tag Heuer, a luxury LVMH brand.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

This is the dark - side of the sweeping back - to - the - city movement of the past decade or two, which has brought affluent, highly educated people back to the urban cores of superstar cities, such as Toronto, New York, London, Paris and others.

«It took a judge seven years and 607 pages,» the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «to explain why children in New Jersey's poor cities deserve the same basic education as kids in the state's affluent suburbs.»

There are nine Del Frisco's Grilles in the country's most exciting cities such as New York, Santa Monica, Washington DC and Dallas — and a tenth Del Frisco's Grille will soon open in Chestnut Hill, an affluent Boston suburb.

Second, as protests spread to the more affluent parts of the country, people poured into the streets of cities like Sfax and Tunis and began to organize themselves with cell phones and Facebook.

The constituency covers a largely residential area immediately north of Derby city centre, including some of the city's most affluent suburbs, as well as some of its council housing, though much of this is former council housing in private ownership.

The problem arises when the land bank does not benefit the city as a whole, focusing primarily on more affluent areas.

The district, which includes the city of Peekskill, as well as rural areas and affluent suburban communities like Pound Ridge and Bedford, has traditionally voted Republican, though Democratic registration has been persistently climbing.

Others said Paladino's comments reflect a deeper problem in a community consistently ranked as one of the most segregated in the nation, and that has a burgeoning immigrant population both in the city and several affluent suburbs.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as more affluent citizens turn against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has polluted much of the country's air, water and soil.

Alwitt and Donley also have posited that when more affluent families moved out of many inner cities in the U.S. during the 1970s and 1980s, supermarkets left as well.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

As the affluent executive Eric Packer riding a limo around New York City in nearly every scene, Pattinson boldly submerges his stardom in the director's twisted anti-establishment tendencies.

A struggling family that's determined to make a better life for themselves in one of America's most idyllic cities is learning the hard way that the affluent community isn't as glamorous as they initially believed.

March 22, 2015 • During more than a half - century as the city - state's leader, Lee helped turn the sleepy British colony into an affluent trading enclave.

Opening with an audio collage of 911 calls and news reports about Chicago's spike in violence, Death Wish lays out an oversimplified snapshot of urban decay as a foundation for the brutality unleashed by one man after inner - city violence spills over into an affluent suburb.

He sees hope that a revolution will occur, as Jonathan Kozol predicted in a visit to Central, after the affluent white oppressors in privileged schools are enlightened by their encounters with the rapping Kansas City debate team.

As reviewed by Diane Ravitch What would Jane Austen write if she were chronicling life in an affluent suburb of New York City?

Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

CAP identified affluent PTAs in Beverly Hills and New York City, as well as in high - poverty districts such as Oakland, California, where three - fourths of students are low - income.

Though she later told JCI she was sympathetic to the idea of the state's need to take additional measures to help teachers rated in less affluent, urban districts such as Jersey City, which tend to have tougher classroom environments, parent Gina Po told the round - table it really can't let them off the hook.

They have been opened as a way to save children in struggling inner - city school systems; as destinations for children of affluent parents wishing to avoid what they view as the pitfalls of public schools; and as laboratories that, in theory, can pass along successful new ideas to public schools across the country.

And unlike other cities, low - income students appear to move as quickly as their more affluent peers.

And children of color in our cities, whom these teachers in the Relay program are being trained to serve, are entitled to the same appropriately trained teachers as their counterparts in the affluent suburbs.

Ms. Hoxby's study found that the charter - school students, who tend to come from poor and disadvantaged families, scored almost as well as students in the affluent Scarsdale school district in the suburbs north of the city.

Put simply, in the United States, affluent people are moving back to the cities as lower - income people move out to the suburbs.

As long as homeowners in affluent suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of cities (where they tend to work or find business and social networks) without accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictionAs long as homeowners in affluent suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of cities (where they tend to work or find business and social networks) without accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictionas homeowners in affluent suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of cities (where they tend to work or find business and social networks) without accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictions.

The path less travelled Restaurants in large, affluent cities such as London, Paris and New York, are invariably more expensive than similar - quality restaurants in, say, the Italian countryside.

The city of Overland Park is one of the more affluent cities in Kansas as well.

Mumbai is the fastest moving and most affluent city in India, as well as being the centre of India's fashion industry and Bollywood.

Particularly during the early stages, bike share is often concentrated in more affluent neighborhoods within a city, such as central business districts.

It's known as one of the most affluent cities in the county and as a part of the Miami Metro area, which has a population of about 5.6 million residents.

The city is an affluent hub for many corporate headquarters, such as Alliance Data, Cinemark Theatres, Dell Services, Denbury Resources, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Ericsson, Frito - Lay, HP Enterprise Services, Huawei, J. C. Penney, Pizza Hut, Rent - A-Center, Traxxas, Siemens PLM Software, and Toyota Motors USA.

The reason given that too many people from more affluent areas and cities accessed therapy with Better Access and statements that there are so many psychiatrists in Mosman compared to rural areas surely don't tally as a reason to cut a very successful service that many people accessed.

Coronado, also known as Coronado Island and the «Crown City,» is an affluent city located five miles from downtown San Diego, CaliforCity,» is an affluent city located five miles from downtown San Diego, Califorcity located five miles from downtown San Diego, California.

As Los Angeles gradually moves towards a more densely built city, improved infrastructure, not to mention the OLYMPICS; L.A. will be on more affluent foreigners» radar for their next home purchase.

Affluent baby boomers from peripheral areas such as Forest Hill, Rosedale and Summerhill, are also making their way into the heart of the city.