Sentences with phrase «by urban form»

The newest project «Orgarna 2.0 was put together by Urban forms and took place in Old town of Gdansk Poland.

Not exact matches

Governments in most Third World countries, supported by development policies in First and Second World countries, have been concerned about supplying sophisticated forms of energy for industrialization and urban life.

Among the most provocative is that by Daniel V. A. Olson, which takes issue with the notion that modern urban life weakens all forms of religion.

I present urban form to my students in the long and large western humanist tradition that sees cities as communal artifacts that human animals by our nature make in order to live well (with all the teleological and virtue ethics implications of that tradition's notion of living well).

Sub-national government in the form of combined urban authorities and county regions headed by DEEMs will be more easily manipulated by central government than would be a system of local government.

Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed.»

ALBANY — Taking a scythe to one of the weedier corners of the state's administrative garden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed,» according to the governor's release.

The guide was formed through a collaborative effort by Mayor Byron W. Brown, Chairman of Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, Buffalo Niagara Partnership, CBRE Buffalo and Buffalo Place with funding provided by National Grid.

Marek Urban and colleagues at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg were inspired to create their self - healing plastic by signs of healing in nature such as newly formed tree bark.

By the early 1990s, urban archaeology had become so much a part of popular consciousness that an urban dig recently formed the backdrop for a television commercial.

Visitors could even tour new forms of urban art by bicycle, or tune into provocative talks and essays from curators, thinkers and activists.

Their paper, «The Effects of Urban Form on Ambient Air Pollution and Public Health Risk: A Case Study in Raleigh, North Carolina,» was recently posted electronically in the journal Risk Analysis, published by the Society for Risk Analysis.

Whether youre testing out a great urban trail or walking in your own neighborhood, you can boost your calorie burn, walk faster, and stay injury - free by having good form.

Bent On Learning formed in 2001 when three yoga teachers, Anne Desmond, Jennifer Ford and Courtney McDowell, met by chance in their mutual and passionate pursuit of bringing yoga to urban youth.

Retaining the gentle, non-verbal comedy and daffy sight gags of the popular stop - motion TV series — itself a loose spinoff from Aardman's cherished «Wallace and Gromit» franchise — while assigning Shaun and his flock an urban escapade more expansive than their usual short - form gambols, the film should reward small fry and parents jaded by more synthetic kiddie toons.

And it takes on an odd, mutant form in Dredd, where the hero (a joint performance by Karl Urban and his jawline), by design and will, is entirely defined by an unyielding external code.

Some form of school - based management has been embraced by most large urban school districts and by probably well over a third of all American school districts during the past 15 years.

For this project, entire classrooms of students were selected based on (a) voluntary participation of teachers whose schools matched specific urban, suburban, or rural characteristics and were located in one of two major climate zones in the US, and (b) consent forms signed by the students» parents.

Backed by the commitment and determination of our board of directors, volunteers and a growing community network, E3 Rochester was formed in 2012 to create systemic change in K - 12 education for the children of the City of Rochester to drastically change the dire student academic outcomes in the worst performing urban district in the nation: in 2015, just 46 % of students graduated from high school on time, with only 5 % proficient to enter college or begin a career.

«With more than 25 million customers around the world projected to use some form of shared mobility by 2020, Maven is a key element of our strategy to changing ownership models in the automotive industry,» Julia Steyn, GM vice president of Urban Mobility Programs, said in a statement.

Somewhere between the streets carefully monitored by tourists» phones and speed cameras, even in London you can find some empty stretches of dead end or restricted - access roads that form corners, ramps, and straightaways of a first - rate urban racetrack providing a perfect test ground for the 05's dynamic talents.

A standard form implemented by the Department of Housing and Urban Development summarizes your closing costs.

We will continue our trek through the long descending stone steps that will take us to Wiñaywayna (2650m), an impressive Inca complex formed by an agricultural center with numerous terraces, a religious sector and an urban sector, near which our camp is located.

Behind a stark urban façade, another world unwinds in slow motion, reminiscent of a scene from the Swiss Family Robinson: wood - and - thatch dwellings, screened by banana trees, form a quadrangle crisscrossed by rustic stairs and wood - railed balcony porches.

We will start our trekking visiting the archaeological complex of Chachabamba (2150m), located very close to the control point, then we will take an upward path of 8 km (5 miles), which will take us to the archaeological complex of Wiñaywayna (2650m / 8692ft), After a walk of 4 hours approximately we can appreciate this impressive complex formed by an agricultural center with numerous terraces, a religious sector and an urban sector.

Location: The Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor is located across the street from the inner harbor tourist area and is only blocked form the water by a two story building that houses an H&M, Urban Outfitters, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Bubba Gump, and a Hooters.

Developed into its current form between 1890 and 1893 by the biologist, botanist and urban planner Patrick Geddes, Ramsay Garden started out as Ramsay Lodge, a block of Georgian «garden homes» built by the poet and wig - maker Allan Ramsay the Elder in 1733.

It explores the role of vernacular forms in some 40 works by more than two dozen contemporary artists, which run the aesthetic gamut: the hand - crafted work of Aaron Spangler juxtaposes with Lari Pittman's carnivalesque day - glo paintings; Marc Swanson's glittering trophy heads with Rachel Harrison's urban relics.

By extracting visual tension from raw materials and their forms of urban existence, Liu Wei's work resembles the deliriousness of the landscapes around him.

Taking place this October and restituting the architectural ensemble formed by the Grand Palais, the Palais d'Antin, the Petit Palais and Avenue Winston Churchill, FIAC 2017 will present an extended global outreach, reaffirming new urban geography which premiered last year.

Director of Critical Studies and MA / PhD programs in UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Sylvia Lavin engages artists, architects, and curators in a series of lively discussions on how cities are increasingly molded by images rather than buildings; on whether art and architecture are converging to form an integrated type of cultural consumption; and if the concept of the masterpiece has finally been destroyed by the sheer quantity of global design production.

His forms, generic signifiers of humanness, are constricted by urban life, decimated by poverty, destroyed by war, and trapped by global capitalism.

This new Hatje Cantz publication emphasizes the influence of Arte Povera on Rhode's aesthetic, whose creative dialogue also formed during his meeting with the gallery Tucci Russo and his early collaborative efforts with photographer Paolo Mussat Sartor, in which he transformed urban landscapes and interior spaces into imaginary worlds, as two - dimensional renderings become the subject of three - dimensional interactions by a sole protagonist (usually played by the artist or by an actor inhabiting the role of artist).

By deconstructing and removing the ambiguousness of today's society, the artists highlight the configuration of organic forms while establishing a dialogue between nature and the urban landscape.

The SCAD Museum of Art presents «A Poem in the Form of Flowers,» an exhibition by Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt, a collaborative architectural and multidisciplinary practice, R&R Studios, weaving together visual arts, exhibitions, design, architecture and urban design.

Using aerial news footage of the devastation in Texas and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina (2005), as well as the floods in Missouri and Mississippi (2008), this latest animation by Wise presents a complex interaction of urban forms, nature, and landscape.

These and other works demonstrate the varied ways artists and designers of the period responded to a world transformed by industrialization, city population growth, and shifting social structures and political ideologies, forces that spawned both mechanized warfare and new forms of urban leisure.

Ms. Crowe merges a crystalline, sophisticated urban sensibility with rich light, textures and form inspired by the Mid-Hudson Valley.

His forms, generic signifiers of humanness, are constricted by small urban spaces, caught in the crunch of rush hour, decimated by the pain of poverty, destroyed by the horror of war, and trapped by the excesses of global capitalism.

All the works in this compelling exhibition address visionary attitudes toward form, inspired in one case by the German architect and urban planner, Bruno Taut (1880 — 1938), whose idealized drawings influenced Weimar buildings.

An important influence on modern art painting in the United States, Precisionism was an American movement (also referred to as Cubist Realism) whose focus was modern industry and urban landscapes, characterized by the realistic depiction of objects but in a manner which also highlighted their geometric form.

A couple of weeks ago opened A Major Minority, an amazing group show featuring the work of contemporary urban artists from around the world curated by graffiti artist and curator Poesia, who is also the editor of Graffuturism.com and the cultural instigator at the center of the growing interest in abstract, progressive and hybrid Graffiti art forms.

But while Sosnowska's fabrications may resemble the dark tangled trees of her country's topography, her direct source material is the urban jungle of Poland's oppressive socialist era, Brutalist buildings characterized by a stark economy of material, form, and production.

For over two decades, Maisel has rigorously photographed aerial perspectives of landscapes affected by industry, agriculture, urban sprawl and other forms of human intervention.

Every part of the city reflects the aestethic, cultural, political and philosophical values influenced by the production of architectural form, and shows fragmented pieces of urban life.

Christo and Jeanne - Claude are known for their ambitious, large - scale environmental works of art that intervene in the natural world and urban surroundings by altering both the physical form and visual appearance of sites.

This contemporary gallery has a taste for street art, and they are currently exhibiting Crumbling Cities by Nether, an urban art campaign focused on improving the bleak landscape of Baltimore through forms of street art meant to generate public discussion.

Guided by an interest in themes of urban life, the nature of memory and forms of storytelling, her practice primarily involves research, collecting, and documentation.

Co-curated by Pollock Gallery Director Sofia Bastidas and urban theorist Guillermo León Gómez as part of the ongoing research of Port to Port, WIDE OPEN explores the historic precedents and free market visions established in past centuries that have helped form today's landscape in Dallas.

For nearly three decades, Maisel has created rigorous, captivating aerial photographs of landscapes affected by industry, agriculture, urban sprawl, and other forms of human intervention.