Sentences with phrase «as urban blights»

Raised highways are often condemned as urban blights that lead to localized social and economic poverty.

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Once referenced on Jeopardy! as a literal example of urban blight, a new housing development is being unveiled in Albany's downtrodden Sheridan Hollow.

Four decades after hundreds of homes and businesses were bulldozed in the name of urban renewal, Community Board 3 took an historic step last night towards finally rebuilding on five blighted parcels known collectively as SPURA.

Future trials that dynamically measure additional biological information, such as cortisol levels (another marker of stress) and blood pressure, are now warranted to further advance our understanding of the relationship between stress and blighted urban environments.»

On the strength of Staunton's performance alone, it is Leigh's most powerful film since Naked in which David Thewlis ranted and raged as the passionate misanthrope Johnny, adrift in an urban landscape blighted by Thatcherism.

Mark Martin: Build UP stands for Build Urban Prosperity, a comprehensive, multi-sector solution to issues affecting the economically disadvantaged, such as poverty and urban blUrban Prosperity, a comprehensive, multi-sector solution to issues affecting the economically disadvantaged, such as poverty and urban blurban blight.

Examples include Patio Taller, a performance space and grass - roots educational center in the industrial zone of San Antón that organizes a «theater of the oppressed» to address issues affecting their community; the collective transformation of the hillside town of El Cerro, Naranjito into a living mural that is socially and artistically charged; intergenerational workshops known as Escuelas Oficios (Trade Schools) that are recuperating artisanal traditions threatened by modernization and colonialism, such as weaving, lace making, and basketry; the revitalization of blighted properties and neighborhoods through participatory urban design of community centers, public parks, urban gardens, and food cooperatives; and the aesthetic and physical reclaiming of public space through movement by artist Noemí Segarra.

As urban gardener Pam Broom says, with New Orleans boasting as many as 66,000 vacant and blighted lots, there is a real opportunity here to grow something beautifuAs urban gardener Pam Broom says, with New Orleans boasting as many as 66,000 vacant and blighted lots, there is a real opportunity here to grow something beautifuas many as 66,000 vacant and blighted lots, there is a real opportunity here to grow something beautifuas 66,000 vacant and blighted lots, there is a real opportunity here to grow something beautiful.

If all goes as planned, the blighted waterfront will become 30 acres of mixed - use development called WaterWalk — a $ 138 million bet that urban...

In Los Angeles, for example, land for industrial developments — many of which are changing from industrial use to residential mixed - use — have averaged approximately $ 23 per sq. ft. at the beginning of 2014 and by year «s end, asking prices were as high as $ 32 per sq. ft.. There has been and continues to be keen competition for every developable site, with the urban core expanding into previously blighted areas.