Sentences with phrase «as urban villages»

The prospects for the townhouses are positive given large numbers of homebuyers looking for medium density residential neighborhoods, such as urban villages that offer walkable environments and other amenities.

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She has served as a member of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Care (CIMS) Leadership Team, and is Executive Director of Uzazi Village, a nonprofit devoted to improving perinatal health outcomes in urban communities.

As a number of recent high - profile developments and decisions show a trend toward a more urban lifestyle in Arlington Heights, officials there will take on a year - long process to update the village's community planning strategy.

Wrapped in ring roads or peeking above a grey urban swirl, one can often discover - as if they had been lost forever - beautiful, centuries - old little churches that stand as timeless reminders of the small village communities that went before.

I am sure that when these leaders wake up each morning, they are not thinking about foreign policy, but about domestic social unrest, the lack of provision of a proper welfare system, about how to deal with the issue of internal migrants (some 200 million people on the move from villages to urban areas demanding the same rights as urban locals), and so on.

Hotel Saranac first opened in 1927 as a modern, urban hotel in the middle of an iconic Adirondack village, equipped with the - state - of - the - art modern amenities, including private baths for every room.

A thousand years ago, no one could have missed Cahokia — a complex, sophisticated society with an urban center, satellite villages, and as many as 50,000 people in all.

It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Ultimately as rural areas get re-vitalized through locally appropriate development initiatives, rural - urban migration which today seems inexorable, would also slow down and may even get reversed... as has happened with dozens of villages in India.

While Noguera's initiative bore a strong resemblance to the Harlem Children's Zone, in its holistic philosophy toward urban education as well as in its name, it differed in one salient aspect: Global Village worked in district schools, not charters.

The Urban League of Greater Miami is bringing the KIPP Miami Sunrise Academy (MSA) Charter School to Liberty City as it takes another step toward transforming attitudes about education within the We Rise Educational Village.

We are delighted to welcome: Old Town Academy, Harriet Tubman Village Charter, The Classical Academies and Urban Discovery Academy as the newest Families That Can Pledge Schools.

When you don't feel like visiting NYC, yet you want to experience the urban life, take just a five minute drive to downtown Huntington Village, and discover its culture, history and entertainment, as well as fine dining and cafés.

The USDA defines a rural area as any area that is rural in nature and is not part of or associated with an urban area, or any town, village or city and has less than 10,000 residents.

Visitors travel to Basque Country for its spectacular coastline, its quaint mountain villages, its vibrant urban centers such as San Sebastian and Bilbao and a host of sights and experiences in between.

Eardley always painted the places and people she knew: as well as urban Glasgow, she created vivid images of the fishing village of Catterline.

Of course, the Village treated graffiti as urban revolution and as art, with Keith Haring, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and Lee Quinones.

The Abraham E. Kazan Award for Urban Design was established in 1965 by Co-Op Village in honor of Mr. Kazan, recognized as the father of non-profit cooperative housing programs.

During the 1930's the author lived in Greenwich Village, New York, where she painted urban scenes as a member of the Works Progress Administration.

The concept of a «vertical urban village» began to take shape as organizations like Church Health Center, Memphis Teacher Residency, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, ALSAC / St.

We very much look forward to seeing you at this year's UrbanPhotoFest, and, as in the past, we expect events to be very well attended and booked - out, so please plan your festival schedule to make sure that you don't miss out on some great workshops, seminars, walks, master - class, conference, symposium, social events and our not - to - be missed Urban Photo Village.

In the 1930s she lived in Greenwich Village, New York and enrolled as a member of the Works Progress Administration for which she painted urban scenes.

Steve McIntyre: «If you are not a climate scientist (or a realclimate reader), you would almost certainly believe, from your own experience, that cities are warmer than the surrounding countryside From that, itâ s easy to conclude that as cities become bigger and as towns become cities and villages become towns, that there is a widespread impact on urban records from changes in landscape, which have to be considered before you can back out what portion is due to increased GHG.

The description of Tokyo as a large group of urban villages connected by transit shows the way, but Tokyo itself misses the other piece: green infrastructure around the villages.

Here's where I expect to see innovation in the 21st century: among the poor and dispossessed, in urban favelas and rural villages, as they string together low - cost, fault - tolerant DER networks, establish new markets and financial practices, and take some control over their own fate.

From that, it's easy to conclude that as cities become bigger and as towns become cities and villages become towns, that there is a widespread impact on urban records from changes in landscape, which have to be considered before you can back out what portion is due to increased GHG.

When you don't feel like visiting NYC, yet you want to experience the urban life, take just a five minute drive to downtown Huntington Village, and discover its culture, history and entertainment, as well as fine dining and cafés.

Nontraditional uses such as hotels, condos, entertainment venues and schools have begun backfilling vacant big - box spaces formerly occupied by department stores to create a more mixed - use offering and urban village feel.

The Plan covered 90 acres and involved the conversion of the Naval base and 115 privately owned properties into such things as a park, a research facility for Pfizer, Inc., a marina, a museum, a hotel, and other structures designed to create a «small urban village».

- ft. Kierland Commons bills itself as the Phoenix area's first urban village with space for retail, restaurant, office and, possibly at a later time, multi-family.