Sentences with phrase «between city and suburbs»

For Ryan, that is literally so: the crisis stems from the failure to desegregate public schools after the Supreme Court would not let remedies for reform cross the line between city and suburbs, a fundamental divide of geography, race, and class.
«Combining measurements and modeling in this way is very valuable because it gives us a starting point to compare different cities, gradations between the city and the suburbs or changes in the city as it grows over time,» McFadden said.
President Nixon even addressed a national audience to criticize busing for desegregation, especially busing that crossed the line between cities and suburbs.
Such cities often poured money into improving city schools with little result, because they didn't prioritize breaking down walls between city and suburb.
«The result of these policies,» Grant laments, «was to create an invisible wall between cities and suburbs.
Ignoring that inner - city disease or its treatments, in part by shunning anyone and anything south of 8 Mile Road — the famous, Eminem - enhanced demarcation line between city and suburb — became a way of life for suburbanites.
MagicBus offers a better way to get around, with direct lines between cities and suburbs, complete with Wi - Fi.
But in a lot of ways it is also a battle between city and suburb; the wide arterials and suburban streets are easy to plough.

Not exact matches

In a study of «the forgotten virtues of community» journalist Alan Ehrenhalt looks at three Chicago - area cornmunities between the 1950s and the 1990s: a Catholic parish in the city, an African - American section of the South Side, and the suburb of Elmhurst.
However much division there once was between suburbs and inner city, that distinction is rapidly passing as the problems envelop and control both.
Three of the many issues facing contemporary metropolitan areas impact churches directly: a rapidly growing ethnic and religious pluralism; the ethnic, racial, physical and economic boundaries between city, suburb and country; and the changing economic realities of the postindustrial city.
What is the proper relationship between center city, suburb and exurb?
Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.
Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).
It's from small towns, suburbs, cities and the middle of nowhere; it's liberal, conservative, radical and none - of - the - above; its parents are straight, gay and confused; it listens to country, rock and roll, Tejano, jazz, classical and hip hop; and its friends, lovers and family are white, black, brown and every shade you can imagine in between.
Astorino — and any Republican — knows the basic formula for his election is to run up the score upstate (where between 40 - 50 percent of the electorate lives), try not to get creamed in New York City and fight to the death on Long Island and the northern suburbs, his home turf.
Several members from the suburbs said they were concerned that the committee Silver is proposing contains no representation from Long Island or New York City's northern suburbs — home to between a fifth and a quarter of the conference.
Freshman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has proved his fundraising prowess in this district, located between New York City suburbs and upstate.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico, and Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler Tuesday announced the indictment of 72 people charged with operating two drug distribution rings: one that allegedly transported heroin, cocaine and narcotic pills between New York City and Syracuse; and a second that allegedly sold cocaine in the suburbs of Syracuse and in adjacent Oswego County.
Population movement within Greater Montreal (from suburbs to city centre, city centre to suburbs, and between suburbs) impacts local population size, but the age structure in the central city does not seem to be affected.
The average carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, population - dense urban cities is about 50 percent below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to twice the average: a factor of four difference between lowest and highest locations.
It's also heavily used by commuters traveling between the center city and suburbs to the south and west.
The film opens with a lucid prologue tracing the roots of America's racial tensions in the continued segregation between inner - cities and suburbs, creating a police state with whites marginalising blacks.
Neither Minneapolis nor St. Paul are particularly massive cities on their own (the former just barely makes the list of the 50 most populous cities in the country, between Tulsa and Colorado Springs), but put together with their suburbs, they're the 15th most populous metropolitan area in the country and account for three of every five Minnesota citizens.
In 1975, Coleman published a follow - up study that concluded that the main impediment to school desegregation was the growing residential segregation «between central city and suburbsand that the «current means by which schools are being desegregated are intensifying that problem, rather than reducing it.»
Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.
During the deliberations concerning the commission's report, I became an advocate of a proposal to divide the Milwaukee School District (100,000 students) into between eight and ten pie - shaped districts extending from the Milwaukee inner - city to the suburbs.
The resulting separation between white suburbs with new schools and middle - class students and an increasingly minority central city are all vividly recounted by Grant, who with his wife was deeply involved in efforts to counter the decline, and who in one neighborhood had some success in doing so.
They kept bussing plans from the 1970s integration in place between the city of Louisville and its surrounding suburbs.
Even if they open in the most deprived parts of England, it will be difficult to establish catchment areas which do not include wealthier suburbs, especially as some of the poorest areas of the country exist within larger cities and metropolitan regions where deprivation can vary greatly between postcodes.
Between the city, nearby Baltimore, and their sprawling, densely populated suburbs, many potential customers await your business.
It runs between Lambton Quay, the main shopping street, and Kelburn, a suburb in the hills overlooking the central city, rising 120 m over a length of 612 m.
The Arts hotel is a good accommodation base during your stay in Sydney if you need to be in the Eastern Suburbs of if a different pace - between city and beaches is required.
Between the city and beaches are suburbs like Waverly, Bondi Junction, Double Bay, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Watson's Bay.
Better known as «the friendly suburb,» Brighton Beach on The Bluff is situated between Durban city centre and Durban International Airport, south of Durban and is renowned for its world famous surf spot «Cave Rock», unspoilt beaches and tidal pool.
Accommodation Brighton Beach Better known as «the friendly suburb,» Brighton Beach on The Bluff is situated between Durban city centre and Durban International Airport, south of Durban and is renowned for its world famous surf spot «Cave Rock», unspoilt beaches and tidal...
Brookdale House offers guesthouse accommodation in the garden city suburb of Pinelands, centrally located between the northern and southern suburbs of Cape Town.
Nestled between Cape Town's city bowl and Lion's head is the quiet suburb of Tamboers...
African Roots Guest House is situated in Polokwane, located between the city centre and the established suburbs of Bendor and Welgelegen.
The 19 - story property is located in between the business center and the city's upscale suburbs, with views of Bangalore Palace.
«But in places like Phoenix, L.A., Dallas and Atlanta, the trade - off between living in the city and the suburbs is not as great, so why not go to where the best schools are and homes cost the least?»
The city, its margins (the beach as a territory in its own right, the suburbs), its in - between or its interstices — physical and temporal (like the place Danton under construction), its private, inhabited spaces, men, women and children who cross or live there, constitute a material of infinite richness of which the 17 artists presented here have taken possession.
The exhibition brings together work from a group of contemporary artists in order to explore a number of apparent juxtapositions: between the great master and the city - suburb, nature and urbanity and medieval morals and contemporary myths.
On Gizmodo, Dan Koeppel writes a wonderful article about the famous California Cycleway, «designed to swiftly and conveniently transport people between a pair of key urban centers: the old colonial plaza in Downtown Los Angeles, and Pasadena, the burgeoning, modern suburb to the north that then rivaled the older city in size and ambition.»
Political battles between outlying boroughs and suburbs — where car culture is stronger — and city planners desperate to unclog streets could make New York's congestion - pricing effort drag on a good while longer.
It fully charges in seven hours, has regenerative braking, as well as front air bags, and the company claims 75 miles between charges (just enough to qwell range anxiety for city / suburb driving).
Now a symbol of the city's urban structure, the walkways were designed to solve a particular problem: the big speedways which connected the center of the city to the suburbs born from its expansion broke the communication between neighborhoods in the inhabited hills to its sides, easing the circulation of cars and buses but making pedestrian life hell.
What if you could save nearly four hours round - trip between São Paulo's city center and the suburbs in Campinas?
Located in central Rhode Island, Cranston is a diverse suburb nestled between cities Providence and Warwick.
With a population of 97,207 as of the 2010 census, it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City and San Francisco Bay to the east, Belmont to the south, and Highlands - Baywood Park and Hillsborough to the west.
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