Sentences with phrase «creating urban places»

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One of the world's largest urban innovation hubs, MaRS supports a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

About MaRS Discovery District MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs supporting a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

Out of these shared convictions and the culture of building they nourished, the architects and patrons of these cities created urban environments and landscapes that were not only extraordinarily beautiful but that also acted as theaters of memory and hope, places that simultaneously referred to and grounded citizens in their origins, the common destiny for which they longed, and the virtues necessary for success in their individual and collective journeys through life.

Nature offers many benefits to minority youth, which is why the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum places the highest priority on taking nature and science education programs to underserved communities, and on creating greater awareness and opportunities to experience urban nature.

Republican candidate Rob Astorino's campaign on Tuesday released what amounts to an urban agenda that would create inner - city enterprises zones, place an emphasis on fathers in a family and overhaul public assistance programs through promoting school attendance and reimposing fingerprinting for food - stamp eligibility.

Bronxites were challenged to create a sign that visibly represents The Bronx, urban gardening or other unique aspects of the borough; the top three finalists were awarded cash prizes, including a $ 500 1st place prize.

Based on 1.5 million hours of acoustical monitoring from places as remote as Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and as urban as New York City, scientists have created a map of noise levels across the country on an average summer day.

The decision to expand existing schools in urban areas, where land is scarce and expensive, is often the most practical way of creating more places, he says.

When all six components are in place and working together, the CREATE model produces the desired results — it enables teachers in urban schools to close the achievement gap between their students and students from more advantaged backgrounds.

Use URBAN ACT Academy's curriculum guides to create rigorous, objective - drive, place - based lessons aligned to the Indiana state standards

This is an extremely significant opportunity for the people of San Francisco to create a dramatic new legacy for future generations — a place where the Presidio meets the Bay, a place where the City can reflect back upon itself, a place where urban life meets the most amazing natural resources, unparalleled by any other city.

«I wanted to find locations that demonstrated how people have shaped their environments, creating urban geometries in unsuspecting places, which can only be seen from above,» Jiwa told Travel + Leisure.

City Farmer was founded in 2009 as a gathering place to realize our mission; to engage, motivate and inspire urban dwellers to garden, eat better and teach their children to follow; and to create an identity that says it all in two words.

- Link doesn't have much of a character in this game - they wanted players to relate to Link and play as themselves - Link's face doesn't have much expression in this game, and that was done on purpose - for Zelda games, the devs always try to make the player feel like Link - that was pushed even moreso for this entry - everytime a Zelda releases, Aonuma watches fan feedback and considers that for the future - the items Link uses to solve are always going to be important - regardless of the tech that Nintendo provides, exploration in the series is important - Link's growth through who he meets is also an important element of the franchise - Aonuma thought about Zelda freedom when considering Breath of the Wild, and was brought back to the days of the original Zelda - this was a big point of inspiration for Breath of the Wild - with Ocarina of Time 3D, Nintendo wanted to really utilize the 3D and had a desire to let players enjoy Ocarina of Time outside - the goal with A Link to the Past was creating more depth - Aonuma used to think that getting lost in a 3D world wasn't okay - this lead Aonuma to putting in tons of hints and guiding players - he has since changed that idea and convinced himself that it's okay to get lost - the first two years of development the devs created a game where just running around was fun - climbing is very important, because players can climb high and see destinations they want to visit - you can place your own markers to decide where you want to go - when the devs create a Zelda title, they consider not using the name Link - since they don't have anything else to go with, they choose Link - the name Link doesn't hold much value, since the player is the one creating the journey - when Nintendo first created Link, they wanted a character that is literally the link between people - that is why his name is Link - to think that the Zelda series has been around so long that there are all sorts of urban legends and myths makes Miyamoto really happy

One of the discussions we had here at Fire Hose Games was, «How can we create an exciting world full of color that takes place in urban and non-city related environments?»

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

The resident artists will create ambitious new work that summons the potential for imagination, creativity, and performance inspired by spontaneous audiences and chance encounters that only a public place, like an urban park, can offer.

Dan Witz, Jeff Soto, Nychos, Olek and Saner will create new works on 10x10 foot panels, which will then be placed in windows on the ground floor of Urban Nation.

Los Angeles - based architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of JohnstonMarkLee architectural firm were instrumental in examining these areas defining characteristics and placing the works of art in ways which either reinforce the urban condition, or challenges it by creating a new way of experiencing a neighborhood.

On Tower Level 5, Wong Ping creates a multimedia installation centered on a colorful, racy animated tale that explores the tension between an aging population and the relentless pace of a digital economy; in her paintings and sculptures, Duan Jianyu depicts a surreal, transitory place where the rural meets the urban; and Lin Yilin constructs a virtual - reality simulation featuring a professional basketball star, testing the potential for using technology to inhabit the experience of another.

As seen at Trafalgar Place and Newport Street Gallery, they can breathe life and kick - start regeneration in neglected urban pockets to create new, desirable destinations and communities; as with Blavatnik School of Government, Weston Library and City of Glasgow College, they can give cities and institutions a new landmark to delight and draw in visitors, improve education potential, and increase civic pride.

But recently, younger artists like Yang [Yong] have created something of a southern school, which, in its open examination of modern urban life, has begun to attract attention in places such as Finland and Switzerland.

New Jersey artist Joe Iurato makes intricate wooden cutouts of miniature figures, which he then places in various urban scenes to create a unique kind of street art.

The group exhibition URBAN ALCHEMISTS took place from 12/1 — 12/5 during Art Basel - Miami, and featured work by 10 artists from LeVine's program including Invader, who created a permanent mural on the exterior wall of the building in which the exhibition was installed, located at 2516 NW Second Avenue, in Miami.

STORM KING ART CENTER: «DENNIS OPPENHEIM: TERRESTRIAL STUDIO» (through Nov. 13) From Minimalist earthworks created in remote places in the 1960s to Pop - Surrealist public sculptures for urban settings in the 1990s and 2000s, Dennis Oppenheim (1938 - 2011) was dedicated to the proposition that art should be open to the world rather than cloistered in galleries and museums.

Printed on Entrada rag, First Place, 2013 is inspired by Urban Renaissance: The Happiness Effect, 2009, a site - specific piece created by the artist that has adorned the Bass Museum of Art café walls since his solo museum exhibition in 2009.

It's not a matter of creating new eco-cities - it's a matter of improving the urban areas we already have to make them healthy places to live.

Team ASUNM, a collaborative effort between Arizona State University and University of New Mexico, has come together to address the inefficiencies of urban sprawl and to create a model for sustainable desert living that has been dubbed SHADE (Solar Home Adapting for Desert Equilibrium), which is an entry in the Solar Decathlon 2013 competition that takes place on October 3 - 13, 2013 in Irvine, California.

That this is the same description that some places use to show how global warming is impacting the Earth, they ignore the fact that urban data will create the same temperature signature.

Creating well - designed, dense city neighborhoods that offer quality of life, sense of place and integrated uses and populations is THE issue in urban design today.

The green jobs field has created several unique occupations such as urban growers who look for space - saving places to plant gardens in cities.

City Farmer was founded in 2009 as a gathering place to realize our mission; to engage, motivate and inspire urban dwellers to garden, eat better and teach their children to follow; and to create an identity that says it all in two words.

San Francisco, CA About Blog This is a community of users creating a place to discuss planting trees, milling logs, forest management, urban forestry, chainsaws, skidders, trucks, or any other forestry equipment, sawmills, firewood etc. and everything in between.

Kamloops is the place where families, urban and rural adventurers forge incredible experiences and create enduring memories.

As we have done in more than 75 communities (rural, tribal, suburban, and urban), the Alliance provides guidance, planning assistance and training needed to create ONE PLACE.

City Farmer was founded in 2009 as a gathering place to realize our mission; to engage, motivate and inspire urban dwellers to garden, eat better and teach their children to follow; and to create an identity that says it all in two words.

«In America after World War II, we stopped creating urban gathering places like village centers or main streets, and what's worse is that we destroyed some of the ones we had,» explains Steiner.

Turned the retail world on its ear with his 1985 design of San Diego's Horton Plaza, kicking off a revolution in entertainment, urban infill and open - air shopping center design; Created more humanistic spaces at Universal CityWalk and City Place at Long Beach.

The building being surrounded by a demonstration forest truly creates a place to get away from the hustle and bustle of the busier urban centers of Burnaby and Vancouver.

The new term, discussed by a panel of experts at the recent Urban Land Institute Annual Meeting in Chicago, refers to a cohesive design used to create more urban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connectiUrban Land Institute Annual Meeting in Chicago, refers to a cohesive design used to create more urban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connectiurban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connectivity.