Sentences with phrase «city sidewalks as»

With the city sidewalks as their runway, fashionable Japanese youths flaunted their sky - high platforms with carefully layered looks, sporting cult labels like White Mountaineering, Neighborhood, Nanamica and Mastermind, as they attended a newly energised Tokyo Fashion Week for the Autumn / Winter 2018 season, which began alongside an early hanami season on Monday 19th.

Not exact matches

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, the company's urban planning team, is set to pitch a proposal to rebuild part of a struggling American city as a new high - tech «smart city,» The Wall Street Journal reports.

He told The New York Times that Sidewalk aims to create «platforms that people can plug into,» such as New York City's bike - sharing program.

Sidewalk will focus on addressing major issues in cities, such as transportation, energy use, and cost of living, through innovative products, platforms, and partnerships.

«We all collectively see cities as about friction: good friction and bad friction,» Mr. Doctoroff told me not long after Sidewalk Labs started.

On any given day, residents can grab a coffee (served with animal crackers) at Tryst, arguably the most popular cafe in the neighborhood, stroll along the wide sidewalks, browse a few boutiques such as Urban Dwell, enjoy a meal on the balcony at Roofers Union while looking out over the city, and finally catch a live band or DJ playing at Songbyrd Music House.

As a homeowner, he said he would be willing to pay a little extra to have the city clear snow from the sidewalks.

As a last ditch effort, Farrell has pledged his support of Councilman Robert Jackson's petitioning of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) through the City Council to «discontinue Il Sole's permit to offer sidewalk seating» as another means of quieting the blocAs a last ditch effort, Farrell has pledged his support of Councilman Robert Jackson's petitioning of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) through the City Council to «discontinue Il Sole's permit to offer sidewalk seating» as another means of quieting the blocas another means of quieting the block.

«These people, who I like to refer to as «city pigs,» act as if our sidewalks are their own personal garbage cans or dumping sites.»

The tree outside your house, you can't touch it because it belongs to the city, but as soon as it comes up through your sidewalk, you're being fined thousands of dollars — there is no good communication on that,» Lynch said.

But now a new controversy is brewing — as two venerable New York City non-profits tussle for control of the sidewalk running alongside the Manhattan Bridge.

On Tuesday at 11 a.m. at City Hall, «Public Advocate Letitia James will announce legal action to ensure that all New Yorkers with disabilities have safe and reliable access to sidewalks and pedestrian pathways, as required under the Americans with Disabilities Act.»

The used cigarette butts littering your city's sidewalks could serve as an energy storage material for anything from smartphones to wind turbines.

As an example of this, these nanoparticles were found on city streets, sidewalks, and in standing water in Shanghai, China.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

Despite being just as tall, if not taller, than the shoe on the left, the shoe on the right is probably more comfortable on city sidewalks thanks to that thick platform.

TECH CRUNCH - Jan 22 - Tagged, the people discovery service with 300M registrations and 3M daily users, is stepping into offline meetups by launching standalone app Sidewalk that feeds you fun happenings in your city, as well as who you might run into where you're hanging out.

► A nearly abandoned city is full of crumbling skyscrapers and bombed out buildings with debris and trash strewn everywhere on the sidewalks and streets while government soldiers, including teen men and teen women, carry large rifles as they patrol the inner city.

Only steps behind Perry's chaotic handheld camera movements, Jason Schwartzman as Philip stomps down New York City sidewalks, first meeting an ex-girlfriend to rub his newfound success in her face, then storming into his publisher's office to declare he no longer intends to do any media promotion for the book.

It's 1929 and writer Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) is tapping his foot as he smokes a cigarette while standing on the sidewalk staring at Scribner's Sons Publishing building in New York City.

(Francisco Kjolseth The Salt Lake Tribune) People crowd the sidewalk along Main street as the 2018 Sundance Film Festival kicks off in Park City on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018.

New York 1995 is portrayed as a grungy, disgusting and un-redeeming city that destroys every person trampling the sidewalk.

Here, as everywhere in the city, the sidewalks are packed with a diverse crowd.

In high - traffic areas such as city sidewalks or bike trails (like the popular Washington and Old Dominion Trail here in Fairfax / Loudoun County), animals can bolt into oncoming car and bike traffic before owners have time to hit the leash's brake button or retract the cord.

Dogs on city sidewalks must be leashed, as well as in all parks not expressly designated as off - leash areas.

But he managed to imbue a well - worn practice with a fresh, if knowing, sense of poetry — as in the image here, where cigarette butts mashed into a sidewalk grate recall the city and its vast multitudes.

Phase I of the Master Plan also includes a significant invasive species removal project in partnership with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, as well as a partnership with the City of Austin Neighborhood Partnering Program to create sidewalks and improve parking along West 35th Street.

One night coming out of Max's Kansas City, I pointed to a construction site — sawhorses standing around, orange tape, cones, some dust dug up on the sidewalk, and I asked Christine if I could nominate that as a piece.

Edward Hopper, often characterized as the quintessential New York artist, traveled away from the city every summer, leaving behind the heat and concrete sidewalks in favor of more pleasant climes and fresh subjects to paint outdoors.

Throughout her long career, Helen Levitt's photographs have consistently reflected her poetic vision, humor, and inventiveness as much as they have honestly portrayed her subjects — men, women, and children acting out a daily drama on the sidewalks and stoops of New York City's tenemants.

The paint looks as thick and gritty as construction materials, and the broad curves of the brushwork evoke at once a drying sidewalk and a detail of a city map.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

New York City's protected bike lane on 9th Avenue led to a 56 percent reduction in injuries to all street users, including a 57 percent reduction in injuries to people on bikes and a 29 percent reduction in injuries to people walking, as well as an 84 percent reduction in sidewalk riding.

Materials such as sustainably - harvested timber and carbon «negative «cements could one day trap large volumes of carbon in our cities» skyscrapers, roads, and sidewalks, preventing that carbon from escaping back into the atmosphere for decades.

Anthony heard a local charity had just replaced some toilets, so he called his concrete supplier to see if they could be mixed with other materials and used as filler for the city's new sidewalk, reports Washington's KCPQ - TV.

As a community volunteer working with Baltimore's Parks & People Foundation, DeSantis says he's personally planted an amazing 13,849 saplings in public parks and sidewalk planters throughout the city.

Goodmorning is focusing on building a sturdy bike of sustainable materials as well as trying to design a system that gets around some of New York's limitations, such as the fact that the sidewalks aren't owned by the city, making it hard to find the space for bike racks.

I picture the following cartoon: a goofy looking human in a bath towel running a dozen hair dryers in each hand, and then zooming out to bring all of their neighbors into view doing exactly the same thing, then panning over to show a busy city sidewalk packed with people rushing to work with a briefcase and a dozen running hair dryers in each hand (either with arms at their sides, or perhaps even up above their heads continuing to dry their hair as they walk, briefcases dangling in the air), and then zooming out again to show the same scene carried out on every city sidewalk.

It is relatively simple to determine liability on private property, such as in someone's home, but it can be harder to do so if the accident occurred on public property, such as on a city sidewalk.

On April 1, 2013, plaintiff George Walker (hereinafter «plaintiff») commenced the instant action to recover damages for personal injuries he suffered as a result of slipping and falling on a hole in the sidewalk owned and maintained by the defendant City of New York (hereinafter «defendant»).

The complaint stemmed directly from attempts by DVBIA workers (known as Downtown Ambassadors) to «remove» this population from public space, including sidewalks and city parks.

Any of the following injuries, among others, can give rise to a claim against a municipality: faulty maintenance, faulty design of roads, poorly maintained sidewalks, dangerous public parks, poor operation of city vehicles, and police brutality.If you or a loved one has been injured as a result of the negligence of any municipality, the attorneys at 1LAW are here to help.

For example, Kansas City, Missouri, has a track record of effectively addressing issues deemed a priority in quarterly citizen surveys; as a result, in 2017, voters were willing to approve an $ 800 million bond authorization (which will mean annual property tax increases for 20 years) so the City can address their dissatisfaction with the state of local infrastructure, like streets, sidewalks and roads.

Also keep someone with a snow shovel on «standby» as the City is very diligent about clear sidewalks.

This motley collection includes locations such as Boston's City Hall Plaza, a product of late 60s urban renewal that the site describes as «one of the most disappointing places in America,» and Denver's Skyline Park, summed up as «a park with no people, running along a street with no sidewalk.»