Sentences with phrase «industrial city it changes»

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The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

A variety of movements arose to meet the challenges of the social changes brought by the growth of cities and the Industrial Revolution.

When the $ 62 million facility opened in 2006 with a relatively small student population, a computer - based curriculum delivered with the latest technology tools, and a unique partnership with corporate giant Microsoft, it set out to upend a secondary school model that had changed little since the industrial era and had spelled failure for too many students here and in cities...

> VARIED AND EVOLVING GAMEPLAYTravel through ever - changing environments, from hostile deserts to abandoned cities and industrial complexes.

The City's Zoning Commission voted 7 - 4 to deny a zoning change for a South Flores Street industrial site where the property owner wants to build a multi-story apartment complex.

Oslo, Norway - based Leander Djønne is a sculptor, performer, writer, and filmmaker who is interested in the transformations that occur in industrial cities when they are affected by economic change.

These payments can take many different forms; from companies or individuals buying carbon offsets from forestry projects, where planting trees removes carbon from the atmosphere to prevent climate change; to cities and towns paying nearby industrial farms or factories to adopt pollution prevention techniques that keep water sources clean.

But it's just as important for cities to adapt to climate change — even if the human race were to cut emissions entirely, we would still be facing the extreme effects of climate change for decades to come, because of the increased carbon input that has already taken place since the industrial revolution.

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Smith: I think there's another huge force pushing people toward living in cities: the changing industrial mix of the United States, and the world.