Sentences with phrase «for urban areas like»

However, other studies found evidence of positive impacts in specific locales, such as at the state - level in California and Massachusetts and for urban areas like Philadelphia and Memphis.

Not exact matches

It may sound like an urban myth, but in the backstage area of the Matterhorn Bobsleds ride, there is a small attic space with a basketball hoop and a cramped area for cast members to play quick games between shifts.

While legislation like that might have prevented some mass shootings, those two proposals wouldn't necessarily be top priority for reducing gun violence in urban areas, like Chicago or Philadelphia.

Though I have spent most of my life in the urban locations of Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area, I am now here, in the heart of the Rocky Mountain range, partly because Missoula seemed like a good place for us to start our family.

Nor was anything like half the world's human population crowded into urban areas, with fewer chances for self - sustainability than people on the land have when times turn desperate.

Desert - Like Conditions in Our Communities: Many African American communities are «first food deserts» — it's a term I coined to describe the desert like conditions in many urban areas I visited where women can not access support for the best first food - breast mLike Conditions in Our Communities: Many African American communities are «first food deserts» — it's a term I coined to describe the desert like conditions in many urban areas I visited where women can not access support for the best first food - breast mlike conditions in many urban areas I visited where women can not access support for the best first food - breast milk.

To give a conclusion to «2015 UPPAbaby Cruz Stroller Review» I would like to suggest that, just go for it as it has everything to give a safe journey to your baby, it's not a all terrain stroller for outer uneven areas but for urban lifestyle it is good.

Unlike a large urban district like my own, where close to 90 % of children qualify for free / reduced price lunch, in these affluent areas only a handful of children are economically disadvantaged.

And in a state like New York where the party lines are drawn Democratic for the most part in urban areas and Republican in the suburbs and rural reaches, it's easy to figure out who is the winning bet, or you could say, a smart investment.

Today, State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and State Senator Daniel Squadron released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s decision that changes to the Section 8 Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) policy — which could have had severe unintended consequences for NYC Section 8 tenants — will not apply to cities with low vacancy rates, like NYC.

Grant Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University and host of The Campbell Conversations on WRVO, said that aligns with previous victories for Clinton, who has found support in diverse, urban areas like Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.

«Many schools are located in urban areas and close to town centres, railway stations and the like, making them ideal for car owners looking for somewhere cheaper to park than a traditional car park.»

Remote instruction: For schools with severely limited numbers of excellent teachers, like many rural and urban areas, bringing in great, live (though not in - person) teachers through videoconferencing, holographic technology, or other means could give students access to great interactive instruction they'd otherwise miss.

Going to college may not seem like the biggest of deals these days, but it remains an all too elusive goal for many public high school students in urban areas.

Hoxby also finds that urban areas with a large number of school districts, and therefore many options for families choosing where to reside, tend to have higher test scores than cities like Miami, where one school district covers anyone living close enough to work in the city.

Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems and been glorified recently in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard schools.

Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems recently glorified in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard schools.

This area is also quite close to New York City, which makes it a good choice for those who like urban attractions but not day - to - day big city life.

In urban areas like New York, where many apartments are walkups, exercising their dog can be a particular challenge for seniors, Herman adds.

Featuring everything from bulk bags of dog food, to everyday must - haves like leashes, collars, treats, kitty litter, hamster food, and everything in between, this urban pet shop is making a name for itself as being the first and only store of its kind in the downtown area.

Tradition Generations of Italian families have given the area a special small - town character unique for an urban setting, at the same time establishing traditions that permeate the neighborhood like the sweet smell of sausage and peppers.

For many visitors to Australia, the majestic Ayers Rock seems like a long haul from the most popular urban centres of Sydney, Melbourne and Cairns, but a flight over this national monument is a convenient way to see this stunningly beautiful area.

It is admirable for its colossal constructions with their impeccable finish, perfectly assembled sets of symmetrical benched terraces, ceremonial centers, like the Intiwatana which must have been used to observe solar movements, as well as for its sacred places, towers, fortified walls, cemetery, urban areas, stone buildings, narrow streets, stairways and aqueducts, to irrigate its agricultural and urban sectors.

It looks like just another industrial area but it played a significant role in «laying the foundation for urban renewal» after apartheid since it remained very integrated during that time.

Assemblages by John Outterbridge like Ragman, Urban Man, and No Time for Forgiving (with that NO in block wooden capitals) speak of the same streets and of Llyn Foulkes in the burbs or Ed Kienholz up in the Bay Area, as does Raymond Saunders with his waste of news clippings and a flag, and anyway Purifoy worked at the new Watts Towers Arts Center, opened in 1970.

Like the animals they encounter, migrating through rural, suburban, and urban areas, the Tush Hogs remain in a state of constant adaptation as they search for a more hospitable habitat.

For over twenty years, he has been active in urban areas around the world and his works have been exhibited mainly in major institutions like the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and numerous international galleries.

Research on specific cities and products yield data like the following: in Hanoi, 80 % of fresh vegetables, 50 % of pork, poultry and fresh water fish, as well as 40 % of eggs, originate from urban and peri-urban areas (Nguyen Tien Dinh, 2000); in the urban and peri-urban area of Shanghai, 60 % of the city's vegetables, 100 % of the milk, 90 % of the eggs, and 50 % of the pork and poultry meat is produced (Cai Yi - Zhang and Zhang Zhangen in Bakker et al. 2000); in Java, home gardens provide for 18 % of caloric consumption and 14 % of proteins of the urban population (Ning Purnomohadi 2000); Dakar produces 60 % of the national vegetable consumption whilst urban poultry production amounts to 65 % of the national demand (Mbaye and Moustier 1999).

As for UHI data, perhaps one could compare the temperature trends of long - term, mature urban areas like NYC and downtown Chicago with more recent and rapidly developing urban sites like Phoenix / Scottsdale, Orlando FL, Las Vegas NV and Santa Fe NM., or the once rural suburbs of those mature UHI sites.

Parker's answer to question # 2 makes it sound like actual data is not available (at least that is how I read his reply) but I know that the actual data is available for the US sites and suspect that it's available for many other global sites, especially in large urban areas.

A big reason for the difference in climate between urban and rural areas is the change of the surface from vegetation to impervious surfaces like asphalt or concrete.

The NDCs and their urban relevance Just like for the SDGs, urban areas play an essential role in fulfilling the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) 1, formulated by most countries in the region as a result of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

It's also a «homogenizing» process that tries to account for the many variables that affect temperature over time — like when a population boom in a formerly rural area leads to an «urban heat island.»

Looking at SustainLane's very thorough overview of its methodology gave us a better sense of how and why some cities fared as well as they did.First, the only criteria for inclusion in the survey was the size of a city's population, so while the folks at SustainLane chose urban areas that represent a large proportion of the US» overall population, they immediately ruled out smaller cities, like Burlington, VT, and Durham, NC, that are doing wonderful things but didn't make the cut because of their size.

Given that there are more hedgehogs in urban areas than in bucolic settings, researchers at the University of Hamburg, Germany wanted to explore what city life was like for the animals in order to help better protect them.