Sentences with phrase «in urban blight»

Most US citizens don't have the money and must travel distances to have the income necessary to support a home and a family unless you want to live in Urban Blight or unsafe public housing.

Held was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the urban blight of the East Bronx, the son of a poor Jewish family thrown on to welfare during the depression.

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These properties are often areas of urban blight, rural abandonment, or places that others are reluctant to live in.

He is now the city's police chief and says urban blight has been a huge factor in the city's crime.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

In a bid by the city to stave off urban decay, Albany homeowners and developers can now apply for up to $ 50,000 to purchase and rehabilitate blighted buildings.

Though Jurczynski's urban experience may go underutilized, he'll no doubt do his personal best to help HUD achieve its stated Small Cities national objective of «aiding in the prevention of slums and blight.»

Once referenced on Jeopardy! as a literal example of urban blight, a new housing development is being unveiled in Albany's downtrodden Sheridan Hollow.

The Bronx, once known for blight and urban decay, is experiencing a bit of a star turn during New York's first truly competitive primary in years.

Four decades after hundreds of homes and businesses were bulldozed in the name of urban renewal, Community Board 3 took an historic step last night towards finally rebuilding on five blighted parcels known collectively as SPURA.

Garrone, who came to features from documentary, he brings a clear - eyed approach to the film and captures an atmosphere of destruction and waste in a landscape of urban blight and poverty.

On the strength of Staunton's performance alone, it is Leigh's most powerful film since Naked in which David Thewlis ranted and raged as the passionate misanthrope Johnny, adrift in an urban landscape blighted by Thatcherism.

April 3, 2018 • The tongue - in - cheek ode to urban blight features Nick Lowe back in rockabilly mode, featuring Los Straitjackets.

I was seized by the passion of education tracts by Jonathan Kozol and others; Kennedy was dead (a stunningly emotional time on the Harvard campus); and Johnson had placed education front and center on the national agenda, insisting that it was the surest and most direct way to end poverty, combat urban blight, and equalize opportunity in America.

Three years later, they opened a sleek, eco-friendly, technologically advanced $ 62 million building in west Philadelphia bounded by a vast urban park, the city's historic zoo, and some of the most blighted streets in the city.

One reason: Connolly clearly details how the development of cities — including urban renewal programs and the construction of housing projects that blighted so many cities in the 20th century — were strongly influenced by Jim Crow segregation.

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First installed by the artist in 1993 in a former firehouse on 141st Street, the piece conveyed both a sober perspective of what the neighborhood had endured — the crack epidemic, urban blight — and also hope for the future.

Over the past five years, the artist's large sculptures, often built from repurposed materials found in blighted urban neighborhoods, have featured in a rash of major surveys that gather the world's most progressive work — 2010's Whitney Biennial, 2013's dOCUMENTA, and 2015's Venice Biennale.

Examples include Patio Taller, a performance space and grass - roots educational center in the industrial zone of San Antón that organizes a «theater of the oppressed» to address issues affecting their community; the collective transformation of the hillside town of El Cerro, Naranjito into a living mural that is socially and artistically charged; intergenerational workshops known as Escuelas Oficios (Trade Schools) that are recuperating artisanal traditions threatened by modernization and colonialism, such as weaving, lace making, and basketry; the revitalization of blighted properties and neighborhoods through participatory urban design of community centers, public parks, urban gardens, and food cooperatives; and the aesthetic and physical reclaiming of public space through movement by artist Noemí Segarra.

Environmental concerns juxtaposed against industry, urban blight, and the loss of the natural environment drive her practice, in addition to gentrification and the changing landscape of the Bronx, her home for many years.

At an artist talk at the Foundation Gallery in New Orleans, Arts and Activism with Blights Out: Loren Schwerd and Cypress Building Conservation, Schwerd discussed urban development and the relationship between art and activism.

Although the Bronx is considered one of the most diverse communities in America, its image has been largely defined by the urban blight that the city endured during the late 1960 ′ s through the 1980 ′ s when arson, drug addiction, and social neglect decimated many of its neighborhoods.

«It shall be unlawful for any owner of personal property to fail or refuse to comply with the orders of the manager of housing and code enforcement to remove from the premises abandoned vehicles, appliances, vehicle parts and / or any other piece or pieces of personal property if such personal property is dangerous to the public health, safety or welfare; or creates an unsightly condition upon such property tending to reduce the value thereof; or is a nuisance; or invites plundering; or promotes urban blight and deterioration in the community; or creates a fire hazard; or violates the zoning regulations of the city.»

In 1936, NAR created one of the first urban think tanks, the Urban Land Institute, to study the twin problems of blight and decentralizaurban think tanks, the Urban Land Institute, to study the twin problems of blight and decentralizaUrban Land Institute, to study the twin problems of blight and decentralization.

The urban entertainment center is located only eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles in a formerly blighted area of Glendale, home to 250,000 people.

In Los Angeles, for example, land for industrial developments — many of which are changing from industrial use to residential mixed - use — have averaged approximately $ 23 per sq. ft. at the beginning of 2014 and by year «s end, asking prices were as high as $ 32 per sq. ft.. There has been and continues to be keen competition for every developable site, with the urban core expanding into previously blighted areas.

In the 1960s, the term public housing became synonymous in many parts of the country with violence, urban blight and decaIn the 1960s, the term public housing became synonymous in many parts of the country with violence, urban blight and decain many parts of the country with violence, urban blight and decay.

In this case, the neighborhood isn't blighted, and the property is to be turned over for development on the assumption that new commercial property that includes a research facility and a hotel, among other pieces of a planned «urban village,» will boost investment and increase tax dollars.

For one, invoking its past — its use in removing urban blight can be a compelling argument.