Sentences with phrase «increasingly urban world»

And more specifically, the Cornell tower takes Passive House to a new, grand scale, and it brings it to one of the world's densest cities, a context that for an increasingly urban world population, will be more and more relevant in the coming years.

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Ocean sea levels and the pressing challenges of managing cities in an increasingly urban world can not meaningfully be studied except on the enormous scale that globalization allows.

The WHO says the centre will focus on the delivery of healthcare in an increasingly urban world with research into the social, economic, environmental and demographic factors of health.

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More substantially, Hobgood - Oster gets the evolution of animal compassion exactly backwards: «As humans became and continue to become more urban and less connected to animals and the natural world around them, animals are increasingly removed from the sacred circle of hospitality.»

Learning how to optimize these spaces is an increasingly urgent problem: As of 2008, the urban environment has become simply «the environment» for the majority of the world's population.

So when AI moves away from the placid confines of the suburban Swinton home and into the wild and woolly world of such locales as the neon - drenched, hedonistic urban center known as Rouge City or — in the film's most stunning sight — a Manhattan that is all but completely submerged in water, Osment's David remains a captivating companion on an increasingly strange and surreal journey.

Beyond the museums, villas, and grand urban plans that by the mid-20th century had become emblematic of a modern architecture, Giedion was concerned with the chairs, tables, beds, bathtubs, and kitchens — the objects that more immediately organized quotidian life and increasingly shaped the way humans engaged with the world.

Expressionism emerged at the beginning of the 20th century as an artistic response to their Modernist malaise, an increasingly apathetic relationship with the physical world as a result of industrialization, urban growth, and other sometimes drastic societal shifts.

Shortly after World War I, the U.S. population became increasingly urban rather than rural, but where artists lived did not necessarily dictate where they worked.

Sketches of Rosset and the couple's cat, Gluton, reveal Mitchell's palpable love for the subjects, while drawings of the Brooklyn Bridge and surrounding urban landscape reflect a more cerebral and deliberate study of how to transform the visible world in an increasingly abstracted way onto her canvases.

A group exhibition looks at the increasingly fraught ways in which the urban intrudes on natural world — and the ways in which nature has adapted to this new human - centric reality.

Salt Lake City — With growing demands on the world's resources and energy, everyday items across the urban landscape increasingly find second lives through reuse and recycling.

I think that's unrealistic: even in the developing world, populations are increasingly urban, and increasingly dependent upon «the machine».

The development of urban agriculture and urban food provisioning systems is increasingly considered an important part of sustainable and resilient urban development by local and national governments around the world.

The importance of urban agriculture is increasingly being recognised by international organisations like UN-Habitat and FAO (World Food and Agriculture Organisation).

contains the attributes for environmentally and socially sustainable settlements for the world's increasingly urban population....

This generation is poised to develop innovative solutions that can redefine what the environment means in an increasingly globalized, connected, and urban world.