Sentences with phrase «from urban street»

Drawn to their specific language, which in turn draws from urban street life, contemporary art and the Sao Paulo favela culture, Joannou gave them absolute freedom to dream.

Drawn to their specific language, which in turn draws from urban street life, contemporary art and the São Paulo favela culture, Joannou gave them absolute freedom to dream.

From director Benjamin Franzen, this acclaimed doc, which originally aired on PBS» «Independent Lens,» traces the rise of hip - hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion - dollar industry.

Environments range from the urban streets of Shanghai to an island chain in the South China Sea to a frozen mountain prison to a city being inundated with floodwaters.

Not exact matches

The widows of the Vanderbilt tycoons who had built the New York Central Railroad sold their ponderous mansions on Fifth Avenue — urban châteaus that lined «Vanderbilt Alley» from 42nd Street to Central Park — to real estate speculators like Benjamin Winter and Frederick Brown.

My second child was a bit more of a challenge because we lived across the street from a busy urban fire station, but eventually, he, too, became a twelve - hour sleeper.

«Fourth Street is a booming destination for tourists from near and far, and places like the Jim Beam Urban Stillhouse offer a great opportunity to spotlight Kentucky's heritage while driving increased visitors to Kentucky bourbon distilleries.»

In the column («From Food Courts to Food Halls»), Deen notes that the traditional mall, in particular, has lost its appeal amid resurgent interest in the authenticity, creativity and vibrancy of Main Street and urban centers.

Latigo's combination of fresh urban edge and vintage flair draws inspiration from retro trends and reimagines them with a contemporary twist for a modern street style with roots.

«Notice came to me yesterday, the 14th day of November, 2017 at about 6 pm while on lesser hajj in Saudi Arabia about a notice of contravention purportedly served on the residence of my 90 - year old mother, Alhaja Sarat Banire, at her 24A, Remi Fani Kayode Street, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos by the agents of Lagos State Government from the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development demanding within 24 hours, proof of planning permit obtained before the building was constructed.

The announcement comes as a coalition of affordable housing advocacy groups urge de Blasio to fire Glen on the grounds that she is bringing a for - profit investment model from Wall Street — she headed Goldman Sachs» urban investment division — into the de Blasio administration.

At a fundraiser in Palm Beach Florida on Sunday, Romney included the elimination of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and a restructuring of the Department of Education among his ideas aimed at reforming Washington, according to reports from NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.

The New York City Housing Authority will have to get the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's approval for every expenditure from here on out, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The Two Bridges Urban Renewal Area extended from Market Street to Montgomery Street along the East River.

Urban Renewal: New York City, 1965 This photo shows a street on Manhattan's now wealthy Upper West Side from 1965.

«We are already struggling with the number of cars we have in the streets of our cities; congestion, air pollution, road safety issues, health impacts from people driving all the time,» said Luc Nadal, technical director for urban development at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

In urban areas, moving the stops farther away reduces the amount of pollution transit users breathe, as long as the stop is not so far that it gets pollution from the next street, researchers said.

In many urban neighborhoods the most convenient places to shop are corner stores, such as the bodega down the street from the Bronx farmers market.

From animated ads on Main Street to downtown intersections packed with pedestrians, the eyes of urban drivers have much to see.

The law might require that anyone entering an emoticon into a smartphone would be required to stand (very still) within a foot of the sidewalk's edge or cough up a $ 50 fine.Going on foot from the Canal Street stop of the A train in lower Manhattan to the door of the huge former printing factory building where Nature Publishing Group has its offices has increasingly become a series of patterned avoidance maneuvers to skirt erratically moving objects immersed in text - crazed oblivion.Mobile devices have succeeded in desensitizing a not insubstantial percentage of urban populations from their physical surroundings.

So say two of the world's most recognizable icons for luxury and culture — the BMW Group and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation — which convened a gathering in the lobby of the Guggenheim Museum here Friday to provide details about the city's forthcoming BMW Guggenheim Lab, part of a social science project that aims to solicit input directly from the streets on how to improve urban living.

Green roofs, green streets, rainwater gardens, and bioswales can absorb storm water runoff, while also cooling city blocks suffering from the urban heat - island effect during hot summers.

It seems like living in the urban jungle has given birds street smarts, too, according to researchers from the McGill University in Quebec, Canada.

London About Blog GraffitiStreet is a brand new urban art store selling limited edition screen prints and original artwork from the world's best graffiti and street artists.

These urban styles are seen everywhere, starting from catwalks to the streets of the big cities.

(Runway photos from Style.com and street style photos from A Love Is Blind, Athens Streetstyle, Collage Vintage, Harper's Bazaar, Stockholm Streetstyle, Style du Monde, Style.com, The Urban Spotter, Tuula Vintage, Vogue, Vogue Espana, Vogue Mexico, W Magazine)

When I was in the 6th grade, my mom and I went to the then open Virgin Records Store to pickup a soundtrack of Wicked and Urban was right across the street from it.

street style Location: The Grove Derrick / 38 / Fashion Designer Outfit Details: Tee: Yeezus Jeans: H&M Shoes: Nike Beanie: Urban Outfitters Watch: Movado Instagram: @thewardrobest «I try to think of the future in the way I dress with influences from the present.»

But after a couple of years, I had to up my game — and save my relationship LOL — so I switched to my first official street style photographer friend: Daniel from The Urban Spotter.

I even snuck in a pic (see down below) of how I remixed this look a bit going from zero to 100 real quick with the simple addition of a pair of Adidas all - stars kicks for an urban street style vibe!

Dress: French Connection, last seen here, similar here, here, and here / / Jeans: Forever 21 / / Blazer: LC Lauren Conrad, similar here / / Bag: Kate Spade Grey Street Mindy Crossbody / / Shoes: Target Blossom Ankle Strap Ballet Flats / / Sunglasses: The Row / / Necklace: Urban Gem from Rocksbox / / Earrings: Gorjana from Rocksbox (on sale!)

street style Kiani Iman / 21 / Blogger Location: Melrose Outfit Details: Dress: Theory Sweater: MinkPink Shoes: H&M Necklace: Urban Outfitters Bag: Nasty Gal Cap: Urban Outfitters «My main inspiration comes from Beyonce.

She enjoys a Moschino under - construction moment just before the show with an urban background from the Milanese streets.

I'm all nature as well as, urban i.e. go from writing and playing in woods of VT to walking streets of NYC for culture and the human pace of diversity.

60 Minutes Sports, Season 2015, Episode 4: 60 MINUTES SPORTS covers the Red Hook Criterium: an urban, night - biking event that has quickly gone from unsanctioned street race to a cycling competition drawing talent from all around the globe.

Based on a true story, this spirited satire follows New York City activists Liv and With, who take their crusade for gender equality from the streets of the urban jungle to the courts.

Two youths from the Brooklyn projects attempt to fend for themselves on the streets after their parents are arrested in this urban drama from director George Tillman, Jr. (Notorious, Faster).

Also too good to pass up: Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, a striking documentary profile of one of the strongest practitioners of urban street photography, directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, Apr. 15; Godard Mon Amour, director Michel Hazanavicius» cool, dramatized portrait of iconic French auteur Jean - Luc Godard (Louis Garrel), as told by Godard's one - time wife, Anne Wiazemsky, Apr. 15; and, from Japanese master Koreeda Hirokazu, The Third Murder, a chambered nautilus of a murder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, Apr. 6.

She's designated as the subservient voice of reason for the protagonist, Surly (voice of Will Arnett), a purple squirrel (apparently there really is one of these) who has led most of the park's rodent population to embrace the easy pickings in an abandoned nut shop across the street from their urban forest.

Director Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) gets that when you transplant noir from rain - slicked urban streets to lonely northern snowfields, the change of venue often adds a special frisson to this stylized genre.

Deray and screenwriter Jean - Claude Carrière are fascinated with the urban landscape of Tower Records and hamburger joints and busy streets, and the perspective is as much from their perspective as it is of the Paris hitman abroad.

There's also the inescapable truth that, even you assume for sake of argument that the electricity you stick in your Model S is 0 % renewable and 100 % coal, you are at least keeping the poisonous side - effects of combustion away from urban centres and are not dragging a potpourri of contaminants down high streets and past schools or sitting in a fuggy 25 mile tailback of them.

Using information gathered by its newly engineered stereo camera, long - distance radar and digital mapping data from the navigation system, we spend almost an hour heading along a section of a six - lane autobahn, winding country roads and urban streets.

Out on urban streets, our heavy - footed - driving style engages the gas engine off the line from most stop lights, but it quickly gives way to electric mode after the car builds up its momentum, and glides through the city at speeds ranging from 20 to 40 mph.

Far from tiny towns like Penny Gate, K.A. Tucker's He Will Be My Ruin takes readers to the crowded streets of New York City, though this heart - stopping urban thriller asks a similar question: How well do we really know the ones we love?

Three inner - city Bronx teens form an unlikely friendship in this moving urban story: 15 - year - old hearing - impaired Tamika; 16 - year - old illegal alien Fatima, who fled the violence and poverty of her African country; and Jimmy, an 18 - year - old street poet and junkie who has just been discharged from the army.

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The U.S. had abundant free - roaming dogs from settlement times until the advent of motorized transportation in the early 20th century, which gradually drove working animals out of the streets, closely followed by the introduction of regularly scheduled urban garbage disposal, enclosed sewers, near - universal access to indoor plumbing in urban areas, and home refrigeration.