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Now in its sixth year, the Sculpture in the City initiative aims to enhance our urban environment with cutting - edge contemporary works from leading artists.

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Hangzhou City, People's Republic of China (21 September 2017)- Agriculture research heads of 14 Asian countries supported the ASEAN +3 Rice Breeding and Genetics Initiative - a long - term regional investment and collaboration initiative in rice breeding aimed to address regional food security and national rice sector strategies.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and state officials are pushing initiatives aimed at encouraging new mothers to breastfeed their babies, drawing criticism from some parents who say officials are interfering with their health choices.

Part of the Government's Northern Powerhouse initiative aims to improve transport links between cities in the North of England in order to create one single economy.

MIDTOWN — Using the frustrations fueling the Occupy Wall Street protests as her rallying cry, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced a set of initiatives Tuesday aimed at boosting jobs by investing in technology.

The initiative is linked to the city's «ThriveNYC» plan to improve mental health services across the five boroughs; the plan aims to provide more services early - on and close treatment gaps.

The initiative was introduced by then - Chancellor George Osborne in 2014 with the aim of ploughing investment into transport links, science and innovation within a cluster of cities in the North.

The New York City Community Schools initiative, a central aim of the de Blasio administration, seeks to transform local schools in high - needs areas into central community hubs, in which personalized instruction, family involvement, and community partnerships are prioritized.

Aiming to boost the growth of charter schools in cities nationwide, the Walton Family Foundation plans to announce a $ 250 million initiative today to help charters build and expand their sites.

After a string of weeks in which City Hall has rolled out nearly a dozen new initiatives aimed at tackling the city's homeless crisis, New York City residents are starting to feel slightly better about how de Blasio is handling the city's homelessness problems, a new Q poll shCity Hall has rolled out nearly a dozen new initiatives aimed at tackling the city's homeless crisis, New York City residents are starting to feel slightly better about how de Blasio is handling the city's homelessness problems, a new Q poll shcity's homeless crisis, New York City residents are starting to feel slightly better about how de Blasio is handling the city's homelessness problems, a new Q poll shCity residents are starting to feel slightly better about how de Blasio is handling the city's homelessness problems, a new Q poll shcity's homelessness problems, a new Q poll shows.

Klein's bill is aligned with Mayor Bill de Blasio's «Vision Zero» initiative, a program that aims to eliminate traffic deaths in New York City.

Both officers worked out of the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn, although they had been posted outside the Tompkins Houses, within the 79th Precinct, as part of a crime reduction initiative aimed at various troubled city housing developments, when they were shot, Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

This comes as part of the larger Applied Sciences NYC initiative, which aims to increase performance of fields like data science in the city, as well as bolster the city's economy.

Two proposed City Council initiatives aimed at changing law - and - order practices that critics say unfairly target minorities and the indigent have taken different paths, with one gaining steam as the other stalls.

Several houses of worship will provide sanctuary — and temporary sleeping space — to the homeless under a de Blasio administration initiative aimed at helping to reduce the number of people living on New York City streets.

Yesterday, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his «Connected City» initiative, rolling out a series of programs aimed at transforming how New Yorkers interact with and get services from city governmCity Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his «Connected City» initiative, rolling out a series of programs aimed at transforming how New Yorkers interact with and get services from city governmCity» initiative, rolling out a series of programs aimed at transforming how New Yorkers interact with and get services from city governmcity government.

The funding awarded Tuesday is part of the state's Gun Involved Violence Elimination initiative, a program aimed at curbing violent crime in areas of the state outside of New York City.

Mayor de Blasio has also invested in numerous initiatives to support our DAs» essential efforts — including an additional $ 2 million per year to the Special Narcotics Prosecutor and $ 10 million to the Anti-Violence Innovation challenge — and launched expansive initiatives aimed at reducing opioid misuse and overdose deaths across the City, in close partnership with local elected officials.»

While many of the governor's proposals were known before he gave his address, unveiled over the last week in news conferences and press releases, among the new announcements were a number of New York City - specific initiatives, including several aimed at boosting each of the «outer boroughs.»

Then, too, the speaker aims to fund his subsidy (and other initiatives beyond what Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed for the nearly $ 90 billion city budget) from some iffy sources: ordering city agencies to find new savings and getting $ 1.25 billion in higher tax revenues — including $ 50 million more in administrative fines.

Code Brooklyn has a five - part strategy that's meant to dovetail with Mayor Bill de Blasio's recently announced Computer Science For All initiative, an $ 81 million public - private partnership that aims to give every student in New York City access to computer science within 10 years.

Today at the summit, Hidalgo will launch an initiative aimed at fostering female leadership on climate issues at the city level.

This year's dig marked the third season of the Petra North Ridge Project, an initiative aimed at uncovering clues about the ancient city's non-elite population.

The smart cities initiative builds on 1990s systems engineering projects — the «golden» projects — aimed at dividing cities into geographic grids for monitoring, she adds.

The project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

Worked on the Febreze Fresh Havens initiative, which aimed to help London become a fresher and greener city before the Olympic Games in 2012.

New York City school officials who fail to embrace education initiatives aimed at producing «heightened accountability» may be removed from office, the New York Board of Regents has warned.

In February 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced the launch of By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents in leading cities to develop integrated systems of education and child well - being to close achievement gaps.

District - wide initiatives in Kansas City, Mo., and Tulsa, Okla., have aimed to turn abandoned school sites into financial opportunities that will simultaneously improve the surrounding neighborhoods.

Three years ago, they founded an initiative called Milwaukee Succeeds, which is aimed at bringing together leaders from across the city's various school «sectors.»

Louisville is one of six cities that have been chosen to take part in a major education initiative aimed at removing the link between a child's socioeconomic status and his or her educational success.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) announced today the selection of six cities, including Salem, for a new multi-year initiative — By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity — aimed at developing comprehensive child wellbeing and education systems that help eliminate the link between children's socioeconomic status and...

Providence is among six cities that have been tapped to participate in a multi-year initiative aimed at improving educational outcomes for economically disadvantaged children.

The city's Healthy Baltimore initiative aims to significantly improve health outcomes for residents by 2015.

No - Kill Los Angeles (NKLA) In Los Angeles, Best Friends is leading No - Kill Los Angeles (NKLA), a citywide initiative aimed at transforming the nation's second largest and most diverse city into a no - kill community.

But a big part of Target Zero's initiative is aimed at changing the way cities deal with stray cats.

Launched by Best Friends in April 2012, the NKLA initiative aims to make Los Angeles a no - kill city by 2017.

The New Hope program is ACC's proactive community initiative aimed at finding homes for New York City's unwanted pet population.

Efforts undertaken by the SFSPCA were part of a spate of citywide initiatives aimed at ending euthanasia of healthy or otherwise treatable animals, and were so successful that some began to call it the first «no - kill» city in America.

The project is a self - funded initiative and part of Nuart's on - going «Art City» program that aims to find convergence points between Street Art and the region's city development plans; the intent being to develop the region as an international «hub» and destination for Street Art cultCity» program that aims to find convergence points between Street Art and the region's city development plans; the intent being to develop the region as an international «hub» and destination for Street Art cultcity development plans; the intent being to develop the region as an international «hub» and destination for Street Art culture.

The project is part of Liverpool City Region's Find Your Talent pathfinder, led by National Museums Liverpool, a government initiative which aims to get young people into creative and cultural activities.

And I couldn't help notice how the Power Dialog is echoed at the high school level by Change Climate Change, an initiative by some students at the Marlborough School in Los Angeles aiming to engage with government officials shaping their city's energy and climate policies.

The next segment with me is on cities, and is summarized by the show this way: «From unearthing buried rivers to traffic congestion pricing, a look at initiatives that aim to make our cities more eco-friendly.»

From unearthing buried rivers to traffic congestion pricing, a look at initiatives that aim to make our cities more eco-friendly.

The project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

In 2011, drawing on the city's long history of taking positive climate action, the Mayor of Vancouver set up the Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan (GCAP), a bold initiative that aims to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2city's long history of taking positive climate action, the Mayor of Vancouver set up the Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan (GCAP), a bold initiative that aims to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2City Action Plan (GCAP), a bold initiative that aims to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2city in the world by 2020.

It is the quintessential smog - laden, traffic - jammed, heat island, but a new initiative from Mayor Eric Garcetti aims to help cool the city by 1.67 °C over the next 20 years.

The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project The East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) Project is a coastal protection initiative, jointly funded by the City of New York and the federal government, aimed at reducing flood risk due to coastal storms and sea level rise on Manhattan's East Side from East 25th Street to Montgomery Street.

This initiative aims to achieve the goal of broad adoption of Biophilic Design among the design community, building owners, and cities.

The «National Green Schools» initiative is aimed at raising general awareness of the benefits of green schools and the critical need for building and modernizing all schools with healthy, high performance green classrooms.Sign a petition for green schools Global Green is calling upon the public to sign a letter urging President Obama to push Congress to make green schools a high priority in the 2009 legislative and to urge local school districts and city councils, mayors, governors, and state legislators to utilize green standards for school construction.