Sentences with phrase «how cities and suburbs»

The adoption of such things as mobile banking, 24/7 connectivity, new shopping habits and other factors are influencing the ways businesses operate and how cities and suburbs are...

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He's already thinking about how Maple's model might move outside the city and into the suburbs, where success would require a different approach.

For more detailed explorations of the themes mentioned in this report, stay tuned to the Insureon blog in January, where we'll explore tips for buying the best equipment and furniture; ways women business owners can increase revenue; and how small business looks different in the nation's cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

While nearly half of voters in New York City and a majority of those in the suburbs disapprove of how Governor Paterson is addressing the situation in the State Senate, voters Upstate divide.

E.J. McMahon, founder and research director for the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, explained how, using the example of a family with a $ 300,000 mortgage, which is common in the New York City suburbs and not altogether rare in wealthier Buffalo suburbs.

Marc Barthelemy and Rémi Louf, both at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in France, designed a mathematical model to explain how cities and their surrounding suburbs evolve.

In a new paper in Physical Review Letters, Barthelemy and his colleague, Remi Louf, have constructed a mathematical model to explain how cities and their surrounding suburbs evolve to be polycentric.

Many white families left cities to move to the suburbs — white flight» — though there is some debate about how much of this was caused by Brown and the racial integration of schools.

«As an adolescent, I had never experienced a learning environment that was at once safe enough to welcome my questions, intuitions, vulnerabilities, and understanding about how the world works and yet equally challenging to push the horizons of my intellectual and personal growth,» says Nalani, who had what he calls a «modest» upbringing in Bugolobi, a suburb of Uganda's capital city, Kampala.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

Grant devotes a good part of the book to the story of how a Supreme Court with four Nixon appointees in 1974 stopped a program to bring together Detroit with its suburbs to make possible a greater degree of integration in the Detroit schools, and thus called a halt to a constitutionally imposed merger of central - city and suburban schools.

Diverse Housing, Diverse Schooling: How Policy Can Stabilize Racial Demographic Change in Cities and Suburbs

I'm eager to read stories that show how rape culture plays out in equally destructive ways among different social classes, different cultures, in conservative and more progressive - leaning settings, cities and suburbs, and elite schools.

Given all the excitement about how fast a 10 - car train can travel from a remote suburb to city centre, or how many people a tram can attract away from their cars, mayors and planners frequently forget about the neighbourhoods and communities that their vehicles stop at.

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The film follows people of faith in rural communities, suburbs and cities, who are driven by their spiritual and religious convictions to re-examine what it means to be human and how we live on this planet.

Zillow's survey on living costs in cities vs suburbs takes into account not just how much you pay for housing, but also square footage, commute times, and how much things like childcare costs.

To evaluate how the cost of car insurance for drivers in Orlando vary based on where they live, our analysis took into account 29 neighborhoods within the city and 16 suburbs surrounding it.

I could also have said something about how we have the best barbecue joint in the world, or we're famous for jazz, or how Harry Truman grew up in Independence (a suburb of Kansas City) or how the Las Vegas and New York mob bosses use to meet in Kansas City or whatever.

Fast - forward a few years, and the relative vibrancy of a given community and how it has performed over the past few years, and not necessarily its location in the city or suburbs, matters a great deal.»

The suburbs - versus - cities debate about work's preferred locations masks how both are densifying around transit and encouraging people to leave their cars and walk or bike.

Later, attending high school in a Twin Cities suburb and college in Boulder, Colo., I was struck by how white the populations were, but I never questioned why.