Sentences with phrase «as urban parks»

An open - air exhibition that takes inspiration from the High Line as an urban park cutting straight through the city, creating new vistas and vantage points onto the surrounding natural and man - made landscapes.

The project was originally intended to occupy the Bosque Urbano de San Patricio, the former site of U.S. Navy housing, and now an overgrown tropical forest used as an urban park.

Martin Boyce is best known for his atmospheric installations recalling archetypal 20th - century landscapes, such as the urban park, the abandoned garden and the corporate lobby, as well as modernist interior motifs and objects like fireplaces and lamps.

Not exact matches

In order to pencil at these values with construction costs rising by double - digits per year, developers are designing more studios and urban one bedrooms with in - line kitchens and treating parking and storage as optional.

Direct - to - consumer sales also means more workers — and parking spots — and a premium on locations that are close to urban centers or facilities such as FedEx and UPS.

Several of these reform movements — such as the 19th - century urban parks movement, without which contemporary big - city life would be almost unlivable — have made permanent contributions to our experience and understanding of good city life.

The Parthenon at Centennial Park is a great day trip as you can enjoy Nashville's urban park and the beautiful ode to Greece all within a few miles of Downtown NashviPark is a great day trip as you can enjoy Nashville's urban park and the beautiful ode to Greece all within a few miles of Downtown Nashvipark and the beautiful ode to Greece all within a few miles of Downtown Nashville.

It eventually purchased the facility and uses the property for the warehouse as well as truck parking and the future site of a green house that will house an organic certified hydroponic urban farm, Hannigan says.

The Stogies / Rebels passed into history when the Federal League folded after the 1915 season, and Exposition Park was immediately demolished as part of an early urban renewal project.

It doesn't look all that different from any other grouping of youth ball fields, but, true to Haley's original vision, the park serves as an urban oasis for young athletes.

The Chicago Park District is planning to dig up its front yard for an open - air garden show in Grant Park in May where area landscape architects, nurseries and institutions can demonstrate techniques for urban gardeners and spread Chicago's reputation as a green city.

His energy and his talent as an architect, artist and urban planner can be valuable assets to the park board.

Like the San Francisco Waldorf School and Golden Bridges, Berkeley Rose is an urban school and as such utilizes nearby parks for many of its outdoor periods in kindergarten through grades.

But even as the town gropes toward a peaceful coexistence between the entrenched artistic underground and the thrill - seeking newcomers, the vintage, urban picture - book luster of Wicker Park continues to shine on, undisturbed, through the winter solstice, thanks in part to the Christmas lights that adorn a majority of the three - flats until early spring; these semipermanent, luminous fixtures work as a convenient simile for the spark that ignites the inexhaustible pride of those who come to dwell in the hood.

It imagined the Bankside public realm strategy as developing an urban forest rather than a park.

The Paterson administration said linking the parks measure with the EPF — which pays for initiatives such as buying land for preservation, plus water cleanup efforts, urban forestry and recycling — was the only way to realize the savings needed to help balance the $ 9.2 billion deficit.

-- In his home district on the Lower East Side, there is abundant evidence that Silver kept his seat of power by blocking the creation of affordable housing in a 20 - block area known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area... Their goal was to preserve the influence of a shrinking Jewish community that made up Silver's political base.

Despite describing City Hall as a «bare - bones operation» Gallo since taking office has moved to eliminate at least one city post, director of urban cultural parks, and promised consolidation elsewhere in city government.

He was one of the most outspoken members of CB3 on the issue of affordable housing, especially in the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (now known as Essex Crossing).

Elation, anger, relief, regret and pride were all palpable as Community Board 3 held an historic vote on the future of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.

Over the last several months, as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area planning process chugged forward, we've sat through countless community board meetings, interviewed dozens of local residents and decision - makers and published op - eds from various players invested in the proposed residential and retail project.

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, a swath of empty property south of Delancey Street, will get 450 affordable housing units as part of a major redevelopment project — and those units will remain affordable forever, city officials announced Tuesday.

Urban green spaces such as parks, gardens, and urban river networks deliver ecosystem services to cities reducing flood risk, cooling urban micro-climates, and creating recreational spUrban green spaces such as parks, gardens, and urban river networks deliver ecosystem services to cities reducing flood risk, cooling urban micro-climates, and creating recreational spurban river networks deliver ecosystem services to cities reducing flood risk, cooling urban micro-climates, and creating recreational spurban micro-climates, and creating recreational spaces.

-- Eric Powell Places Urban BioBliss There are bugs in them thar bushes Central Park BioBlitz June 27 and 28, 2003 www.explorers.org/nycbioblitz/ New York's Central Park might strike the casual observer as a strange spot to celebrate biodiversity.

In a study published in October 2009 in the Journal of Mammalogy, Gehrt watched the movement of 181 radio - collared coyotes and noted their preference for natural lands within urban and suburban spaces, such as city parks and residential yards.

In particular, I was a Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellow, serving as a member of the subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and as a special director in the Office of Cultural Resources of the National Park Service.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said homeowners living in the wildland - urban interface can do their part by recognizing that wild and domestic animals in their backyards are seen as prey to wild predators.

That's the cautionary tale from a new study in the journal Parasites & Vectors, which found that ticks in urban parks in Delaware dominated by an invasive rose bush were nearly twice as likely to be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, as compared to ticks from uninvaded forest fragments.

To «adopt» an area, contact your local parks and recreation office, department of environmental protection, or greening organization, such as MillionTreesNYC in New York or Friends of the Urban Forest in San Francisco.

«Even in an urban environment, proximity to green spaces provides a much richer population of colonizing microbiota versus urbanized environments such as parking lots.»

Witch hazel saplings are also sold for living fences and parking strips, as the plant's low water requirements make it a practical option for urban settings.

Also in attendance at the party were Westworld «s James Marsden, Thor: Ragnarok «s Karl Urban, Star Trek: Discovery «s Sonequa Martin - Green, The Gifted «Jamie Chung and Stephen Moyer, The Orville «s Seth MacFarlane and Halston Sage, actor Zachary Levi, Once Upon a Time «s Lana Parrilla, Colin O'Donoghue, and Dania Ramirez, Black Panther «s Chadwick Boseman, Sharknado «s Cassie Scerbo and Tara Reid, Supergirl «s Odette Annable, The Magicians «Olivia Taylor Dudley, Game of Thrones «Iwan Rheon and John Bradley - West, Power Rangers «Dacre Montgomery, American Gods «Ricky Whittle and Orlando Jones, Stranger Things «David Harbour, Spider - Man: Homecoming «s Tony Revolori, Doctor Who «s Peter Capaldi, Gotham «s Cory Michael Smith, Robin Lord Taylor, and Camren Bicondova, Midnight Texas «Arielle Kebbel, Jason Lewis, Sarah Ramos, and Francois Arnaud, The Last Ship «s Bridget Regan, comedian Ana Gasteyer, Planet of the Apes «Andy Serkis, Lucifer «s Tricia Helfer and Aimee Garcia, SNL «s Aidy Bryant, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency «s Hannah Marks, former Hawaii Five - 0 star Grace Park, Prison Break: Resurrection «s Sarah Wayne Callies, as well as David Arquette, and Lydia Hearst and Chris Hardwick.

She's designated as the subservient voice of reason for the protagonist, Surly (voice of Will Arnett), a purple squirrel (apparently there really is one of these) who has led most of the park's rodent population to embrace the easy pickings in an abandoned nut shop across the street from their urban forest.

I had such fun teaching this unit, as we delivered it as a whole learning journey, where the children studied graffiti and urban art, too, and we visited the local skate parks, did skating angles etc in maths.

While urban youth search parks, yards, and tree - lined streets for birds such as the barn swallow, the American crow, and the mourning dove, young birders in the suburbs and rural areas do the same.

To take one example, if reading Deborah Meier's moving book (The Power of Their Ideas) about turning around a school enabled her readers to duplicate her performance as principal of Central Park East, urban education in the United States would be very different.

NBFA is a tuition - free, public charter school, proudly distinguished by: • A progressive educational model that weaves trauma - sensitive, emotionally responsive practice into every classroom • Social emotional learning steeped in child development best practices • Parental involvement, in and outside of the classroom • Consistent, competitive high - school placement at such schools as Kolbe Cathedral, Hopkins and Fairfield Prep NBFA is located on an «urban campus» at 184 Garden Street, Bridgeport, CT (within a mile of the University of Bridgeport and the beach at Seaside Park).

Through ongoing coaching, participating in professional learning communities that deepen and expand their instructional tool kits, and in the completion of their Master's in Urban Education through Park University, the Resident Graduates will leave the three - year commitment as highly effective teachers that are making transformative gains for their students.

As places to play and learn and as public spaces where people come together, parks are essential to the health of urban communitieAs places to play and learn and as public spaces where people come together, parks are essential to the health of urban communitieas public spaces where people come together, parks are essential to the health of urban communities.

She has served in a leadership and consulting capacity with numerous organizations such as: Center for Supportive Schools, GradNation Conference, Leading With Love, Circle of Community Leadership, Building Bridges, School Turnaround Leadership Network, Juggling Life (board member), Mercer County Gang Task Force, GGrant 94 ft. Academic Sports Academy, Roots Heritage Urban Food Hub, Jackie Robinson Park of Fame, and YOU - Turn Productions.

The following two years, Castenzio served as the lead principal, as well as trained future urban principals, and started two new CfUT summer school sites at HOPE Christian School Prima and Sherman Park Lutheran School, respectively.

Asbury Park is one of 31 poor urban school districts, formerly known as Abbott districts, in the state that must provide mandatory preschool for children ages 3 to 4.

The 2012 Scion iQ is billed as an urban runabout, and its tiny dimensions do make for easy parking.

But bigger trucks, such as the Ford Excursion and Chevrolet Suburban sport - utility models, require parking lanes nearly 10 feet wide; and that's putting the squeeze on the availability of space for smaller vehicles, according to The Dimensions of Parking, an Urban Land Institute publiparking lanes nearly 10 feet wide; and that's putting the squeeze on the availability of space for smaller vehicles, according to The Dimensions of Parking, an Urban Land Institute publiParking, an Urban Land Institute publication.

The Q2 joins the BMW X1 and Porsche Macan as vehicles well suited to darting about urban jungles, finding parking, and then looking dashing on weekends in the country, for those willing to spend a premium on the car and on options such as adaptive cruise control.

Handling has one nick: if you do a lot of urban driving and need to spin the wheel for three - point turns toward opposite - lane parking spaces, then you'll notice that the steering loads up with a gummy feel in the first turn - and - a-half as you aim for those spots.

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I really missed the rearview camera and surround - view camera options (both available for the X5 but not included on this example), as the sonar park distance sensors were barely adequate for urban parking.

As a compact passenger - carrying vehicle that will likely see out most of its days in urban centres with heavy traffic flow and tight parking, the C4 Picasso offers Park Assist.

Although not as popular as compact and mid-size options, very small cars such as those that were once exclusive to the streets of Tokyo and London have gradually made their way over to the United States, where they have attracted the interest of city - dwellers who need occasional transportation that's easy to park in an urban landscape.