Sentences with phrase «into urban systems»

The films draw uponarchitecture's relationship to its natural environment, its integration into urban systems and juxtapositions with the local vernacular.

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FRANKFURT, Feb 5 - Berlin - based urban farming start - up Infarm has raised $ 25 million to expand its indoor growing system - a soil-less technology better known for furtively growing marijuana - into major supermarket chains and restaurants across Europe.

When we got back to the UK and started settling back into real life, we got the Mountain Buggy Urban Jungle system.

The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition that includes the school systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost after use.

Turn your Thule Urban Glide into a travel system with the car seat adapter (sold separately, see car seat compatibility chart)

Convert your urban jungle, terrain or + one stroller into a travel system.

About Sibley Square WinnDevelopment is reshaping Downtown Rochester with a multi-year project to transform Sibley Square into a vibrant, mixed - use urban center, featuring the best apartment homes in Rochester, Class - A office space, green living, elegant landscaping, premier security systems and centralized transportation.

The Governor outlined his vision for the Energy Highway in his 2012 State of the State Address, calling for «a private - sector funded $ 2 billion «Energy Highway» system that will tap into the generation capacity and renewable energy potential in Upstate and Western NY to bring low - cost power to meet the tremendous energy needs in Downstate New York» and for the repowering of old and dirty plants to stop pollution in urban neighborhoods.

The Urban league is contracted by the Department of Social Services to provide preventive services that focus on vulnerable children who may be on the verge of heading into the foster care system.

The country is developing a carbon - trading system that is expected to go into effect next year, and is also scrambling to find ways to cut emissions causing its massive urban air - pollution problem, says Dawe.

Astronomers have long known that galaxies cluster together into enormous systems — the urban centers of the cosmos — and that the largest galaxies tend to «point» towards their neighbors.

Heavy downpours can overwhelm New York's antiquated 19th - century sewer systems, the miles of pipes and tunnels that carry away wastewater and, when overtaxed, divert billions of gallons of raw sewage and contaminated urban runoff into the rivers, lakes and the ocean.

The system should work in any urban environment that can be outfitted with sound detectors and premapped into a computer.

The US Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing a radar system which sees around corners and down into «urban canyons».

Node Smith, ND A new study from the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that people raised in an urban environment without pets around have a less resilient immune system and may be at higher risk for mental illness.1 This research furthers the conversation of the «hygiene theory» into realm of mental health, connecting some -LSB-...]

With Native American protagonist Conner Kenway at the helm, Assassin's Creed III rushed into 2012 with a revamped offense - oriented combat system (to help quell complaints of the slower, more reactionary system of past games), a large world featuring both woodland and urban environments, the addition of cooperative multiplayer, and a story that featured many iconic American heroes such as Benjamin Franklin, Sam Adams, and George Washington.

Anderson can't help but turn the open - air, urban setting into yet another deathtrap tunnel system, and CGI aerial shots dot Pompeii's opening stretch, showing the complex grid of roads, narrow streets, and aqueducts which make up a Roman city — and through which, of course, the characters will eventually have to escape.

In a total of 156 issues over the years, the «Oakes Newsletter» — researched, written, edited, and published by Ms. Oakes — earned a solid reputation as a source of information and insight into the workings of a major urban school system.

As I studied fifty - seven urban systems, I ran into a serious problem: everyone was doing everything.

So how do we transform today's urban district systems into chartered systems?

And far too many school systems, especially urban districts with the most urgent need for dynamic competence in this crucial role, haven't yet figured out the best way to find the strongest candidates in the land and induce them to move into the principal's office.

A unique blend of education - savvy business leaders, a superintendent with stamina, and a mature accountability system has made Houston into the darling of urban school reform.

Working with the Center for Urban Pedagogy, they turned their inquiry into a compelling documentary, Bodega Down Bronx, that sparks community discussions about nutrition, poverty, health, and food systems.

The task force, established by Senator Simon last May in the wake of several reports highly critical of the city's school system — one calling its dropout problem «a human tragedy of enormous dimensions» — was aimed at turning Chicago into an «urban laboratory» for educational experimentation.

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

Graduates of the prestigious Broad Residency in Urban Education — a two - year management development program for talented executives seeking to make a career switch into the top levels of K - 12 urban public education systems — earn a Master of Education in Educational LeaderUrban Education — a two - year management development program for talented executives seeking to make a career switch into the top levels of K - 12 urban public education systems — earn a Master of Education in Educational Leaderurban public education systems — earn a Master of Education in Educational Leadership.

As he sees it, urban Catholic - school closures dump students back into a system that is ill - prepared to educate them, a system that in many large U.S. cities awards diplomas to only half its high school students.

Just as I reached the conclusion that urban districts can't be fixed and, therefore, we need to create a new delivery system for public education in America's cities, a large and growing number of reformers interested in teacher preparation believe that we can't trust the old system to change adequately and that, instead, we need to create new pathways into the profession.

The state's Department of Education also doesn't have a system for identifying whether districts are rural, urban or suburban, at least in part because more often than not, a district doesn't fit neatly into one of those categories.

«As urban parents, we have to work ten times as hard, be ten times as engaged, and be ten times as savvy about the system to give our children even a slim chance of getting into a quality school,» said Jessica Martinez in a statement, the mother of one of the plaintiffs.

Nine urban school systems, including the Los Angeles Unified School District, entered into the compact with charter schools.

The report is chilling in its description of how school closures and privatization are destroying America's big cities and turning urban public school systems into institutions of last resort.

There are also urban districts that have not done that: that have, like San Francisco, put more money into the schools serving high - need kids with a weighted student formula; that have really worked to have a better, stronger hiring process; that have put in place induction [mentoring], and stronger feedback, and teacher evaluation systems.

While the State of Connecticut spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in our urban school districts, as required by Connecticut's Constitution and Courts, Governor Dannel Malloy is pumping more than $ 100 million a year into Connecticut Charter Schools despite the fact that they have become a primary vehicle for the segregation of our public school system.

It is time we lean into urban education as a place to jump - start the revitalization of an old - fashioned plodding system into a model for the 21st century.

Source: Lexus Press Release is on Page 2 All - New Lexus UX Crossover Makes Its World Debut in Geneva The first - ever Lexus compact luxury crossover Bold «Urban Explorer» design First Lexus built on the new GA — C global platform UX 200 features all - new 2.0 - liter engine coupled with Direct Shift Continuously Variable Transmission UX 250h combines new gas engine with 4th generation hybrid system GENEVA, March 6, 2018 — Following recent launches of its stunning new LC flagship coupe, LS flagship sedan and three - row RX luxury utility vehicle, Lexus is opening a new gateway into the brand with the UX, its first - ever compact luxury crossover.

That's because the 40e's claimed fuel economy of up to 85.6 mpg is most likely to be achieved on short, urban journeys, where the electric power system comes into play.

I switched to E-mode for the hybrid system and the E plus drive setting, and took off into San Francisco's heavy urban traffic.

Despite many educated guesses that seem to have passed into urban legend in self - publishing communities online, there are no secrets to the Amazon ranking system.

Visionect - powered information boards represent the perfect fusion of Visionect's System Boards and electronic paper displays, integrated into smart urban furniture realized by the expertise of our global technology partners.

James Shilling, Ph.D., another panelist and the Professor of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison said «The ability to refinance for lower interest rates is an important element of the U.S. system as it allows consumers to take equity out of their home and put it back into the economy.»

About Our Funders Several sources provided grants to help implement the Crissy Field Center's renewable energy systems and sustainability features, plus related monitoring systems and curriculum development designed to incorporate these dynamic teaching tools into the Center's award - winning educational programs for diverse teaching tools into the Center's award - winning educational programs for diverse urban youth.

The large drawings delineate a series of futuristic architectural fantasies that reimagine the modernist architecture of our urban landscape, bringing into play the visible and invisible systems of daily life.

The artworks «The Emergent City», «Sonicity», «Urban Generation», «The Nemesis Machine» reform data, working with the idea of bringing data from outside into the inside, and then presenting it back out again in open ended systems where the public is often engaged in or directly embedded in the artwork.

Following his family's emigration from Poland to Canada during his childhood and his later studies in the field of architecture in Winnipeg, Pyszczek laid the focus of his artistic work on the phenomenon of mass - produced residential blocks, in particular on the «embellishment» of their façades and building structures, which also extend into the surrounding environment and, with this, into interconnected, urban systems.

In addition to our expertise in designing and installing green roofs, green walls, and organic urban farm systems, our team can provide business planning support, program design, and insight into integrated sustainable design for new construction and building retrofits.

The most striking feature of urban agriculture, which distinguishes it from rural agriculture, is that it is integrated into the urban economic and ecological system: urban agriculture is embedded in - and interacting with - the urban ecosystem.

The Botswana policy paper on urban agriculture assigns a critical role to farmer education through the production of books, brochures, posters, and community level demonstration projects and advocates for the integration of urban agriculture into the formal training and education system (e.g. agricultural colleges, technical schools).

Join our colleagues at Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) in Toronto on June 1st — 2nd, 2015 to delve into the latest ideas and innovations in urban agriculture at their 2015 Grey to Green: A Conference Exploring the Economics of Local and Regional Food Systems and Resilience.

The ICLEI Resilient Cities Congress 1 June 2013 featured for the first time a special one - day food systems forum for urban stakeholders to come together to discuss and put into action the implementation of resilient food systems within cities around the world and to generate heightened awareness and strengthened political commitment in local governments in order to create resilient urban food systems.