Sentences with phrase «in civic infrastructure»

In his sculptural installations, Handforth often transplants familiar objects found in civic infrastructure — such as municipal signs, motor scooters, hydrants, street lamps, wheels, and traffic cones — into unfamiliar surroundings and transforms them, by reworking or deforming their structures and configurations, in order to reveal something new about the ways in which these objects function in our everyday lives.

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When George Osborne announced in November 2014 that Greater Manchester was to get its own directly elected «metro mayor», he lauded the potential for dynamic civic leadership to develop the city - region's economy and transport infrastructure.

«We need to build a new civic infrastructure that enables public learning and input, and the place to start may be in the cities and states where research is taking place.»

Our mission is to engage disenfranchised Communities in democracy by incubating and expanding innovative civic education, advocacy, strategy, infrastructure, and technology.

Community Development: Engaging parent, civic, family support, health and business partners in developing infrastructure and support for public education.

# $ # % & % having the first serious cyber annex makes so much sense - in terms of creating, and I quote the director, «a civic sphere» an infrastructure that gets Art created here in Chicago, out into the world.

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

Our most critical need is to rebuild our civic infrastructure, investing in institutional reforms that enable interaction with people who are politically not like ourselves.

The helmet is shifting responsibility from the drivers who should be looking in their mirrors and from the civic authorities who don't provide proper infrastructure onto the head of the cyclist.

While of course it's expected that Sapphire Energy will tout its green crude as the source of energy enlightenment, and it certainly could have a large impact on reducing the impact of climate change, in much of the world it's our current civic infrastructure and consumption patterns themselves which are a large part of the environmental problem.