Sentences with phrase «dense city neighborhoods»

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.

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In a founder - dense city like San Francisco, which further has two peak neighborhoods where tech companies congregate (SoMa and the Mission), what this means is that you can't walk down the street without (almost literally) running into someone else who is starting a tech company.

In Dominican and African American families from poor areas of New York City, living in a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researchers.

The team found that household poverty and ethnicity were bigger risk factors for asthma than simply living in a dense, inner - city neighborhood.

She has demonstrated that schools comprised almost entirely of English learners, in some of the city's poorest and densest neighborhoods, can achieve extraordinary results and serve as models of excellence.

In her role as CEO of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy she has demonstrated that campuses comprised almost entirely of English language learners, in some of the poorest and densest neighborhoods of our city, can excel.

While staying in the Center's lodging in the historic Faubourg Tremé neighborhood, artists are ideally situated to access the myriad and unique stimuli of a historically dense city.

Like a Mayan pyramid, the Anahuacalli Museum rises from a dense, old neighborhood in the southern environs of Mexico City, a good 1.5 - hour taxi ride from your next destination (unless it's Frida Kahlo's house and collection a short distance away).

The mural, which uses imagery from drawings of churches and other buildings in New York City, depicts tightly packed building - like structures across the wall as if they had been plucked from a dense urban neighborhood.

It's actually fairly easy to get around many old - style US cities on a bicycle, i.e. Eastern and Midwestern cities, with a dense center and tight neighborhoods; reducing or restricting automobile traffic makes it that much easier.

In dense cities and neighborhoods, green roofs can act as additional public spaces, albeit usually owned and managed by private parties.

The conference participants, which included a significant percentage of the country's architectural and urban planning heavyweights, also discussed issues such as transportation infrastructure in dense urban fabrics, population diversity in neighborhoods, open spaces and public buildings in cities, and the connection between high densities and tall buildings.

In big cities and dense urban neighborhoods, auto insurance rates tend to be higher because of things like crime, theft, vandalism, and traffic.

Overall, the cheapest neighborhoods were found near the Stockton city border, where the population is less dense than the areas closer to the city center.