Sentences with phrase «more urban centers»

Through her collage - based paintings depicting intimate, personal scenes, Nigerian - born, L.A. - based artist Akunyili Crosby is pulling focus onto a larger trend, what's become known as «Afropolitanism»: the shifting multicultural identity of African citizens and members of the African diaspora as they move to more urban centers across the globe.

As I looked into VLO, I realized that this new way to practice would allow my office to more effectively represent parents nearby, and provide access to those families who are outside of more urban centers who otherwise have not had access to legal services at all.

This could be a contributing factor to why this underserved population isn't taking advantage of the many therapeutic benefits of yoga in the way that more urban centers are.

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But there's more to this city than its looks, including a dynamic urban center chock - full of world - class art, food, and design.

As highways in and around urban centers become more congested, the old - fashioned ferryboat is making a comeback.

The urban population boom may finally be normalizing, but people are still being attracted to city centers more often than in the years leading up to the Great Recession.

As more and more people return to urban centers, modern transportation systems are increasingly strained.

Currently, there are only 44 resale homes available for sale in an urban center of more than 80,000 residents, with most priced above $ 1 million.

Direct - to - consumer sales also means more workers — and parking spots — and a premium on locations that are close to urban centers or facilities such as FedEx and UPS.

Unless we make our large, complex urban centers into something more than grab bags of opportunities, nothing — not enterprise zones, new housing projects or more police officers — will make them good places to live.

The rural ministry gradually became a stepping stone for young men on their way to more prosperous city churches or a final resting place for the man who had given his most vigorous years to urban centers.

In addition to serving up loads of pancakes (about 1.4 million) and more than 253 thousand bowls of our famous queso, we also made time to give back to our Austin community through organizations like United Way of Greater Austin, Urban Roots, Central Texas Food Bank, and the Breast Cancer Resource Center.

The center features an urban bowl experience and social lounge featuring 20 ice - white lanes and multicolored LED lighting appealing to families and young adults alike, billiard tables, more than 60 big - screen TVs, a 9 - ft high ropes adventure course and zip line suspended over the massive games gallery.

And in 39 of 50 biggest urban centers in America, women in the age 22 - 30 bracket are making more money than their male peers.

Learn more about Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center and its urban environmental education programs

Countervalue are targets that are more civilian in nature, i.e. large cities and urban centers, whether or not there is military industry there.

A new report published by the Center for an Urban Future finds that the record increase in tourism to New York City over the past two decades has spurred thousands of jobs in Queens and benefited thousands of additional residents who work in tourism More...

Brindisi said the upstaters have broadened their focus to include transit — «something we all agree could use more funding» — and addressing the needs of immigrant / refugee populations that have popped up in certain urban centers.

The councilmember wrote the forward to the book, which features more than 100 archival photographs of Jackson Heights» progression from isolated farmland to a major urban center.

According to the New York Times, which cited a report by the Center for an Urban Future, Marshall directed more money toward library projects in Queens than the four previous borough presidents combined.

The spread of urban centers increases the demand for electricity, more than 75 percent of which in China is generated from coal - fired power plants.

But the biggest finding was that those who lived closer to the city center or the main highway had better access to water deliveries than those in more remote areas — because of distance and transportation issues — but still less than their urban counterparts.

Vishaan Chakrabarti, director of Columbia's Center for Urban Real Estate, an organization behind the idea to vastly expand lower Manhattan with yet more landfill, acknowledged that the promotion of waterfront development had put people into the path of danger.

On the other hand, they say the city could grow even more resilient due to the ongoing efforts to reduce the urban heat island effect — for instance through programs to install reflective roofs and plant trees, as well as to protect vulnerable populations through heat warning systems and the availability of cooling centers.

Indeed, the toilet of the future may be needed most by poor communities swelling on the edges of the world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural poor.

For example, we lived reasonably close to an urban center, so the possibility of getting a university degree was perhaps more realizable than compared to youth who live in isolated communities.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

More than half the world population now lives in cities, many migrating to urban centers from rural hinterlands, a trend that shows no sign of abating.

Learn more about DNA barcoding and how the DNALC has implemented student - centered research in New York City through the Urban Barcode Project and on Long Island through the Barcode Long Island project.

Shreejoy J. Tripathy, who worked in Urban's lab when he was a graduate student in the joint Carnegie Mellon / University of Pittsburgh Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) Program in Neural Computation, selected more than 10,000 published papers that contained physiological data describing how neurons responded to various inputs.

June 29, 2017 UChicago Medicine announces South Side Pediatric Asthma Center Recognizing that asthma affects children on Chicago's South Side more than most other communities in the city, the University of Chicago Medicine's Urban Health Initiative and the Department of Pediatrics will lead a collaboration of health providers to develop the South Side Pediatric Asthma Center.

So it's critical to replenish your antioxidant stores both internally and externally morning and night, and even more frequently if you engage in intense exercise, live in an urban center with lots of pollution in the air, or expose your skin to the sun.

April 5, 2018 • And the number of sufferers is expected to increase, especially in lower - income countries as people in rural areas move to urban centers and adopt more sedentary lives.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Drawing on research with teachers, principals and superintendents in three urban districts, the Rennie Center's brief recommends that policymakers at both the state and district levels provide teachers with more time and support for the integration of data into their instructional planning.

Similar findings were reported in the Plowden Report in England, which compared children from the informal schools of rural areas with children who attended the more formal schools of urban centers.

In particular, I've been focusing on understanding the degree to which Head Start might be more or less effective depending on where centers are located — in urban versus rural settings, in communities with high versus low levels of wraparound services and resources, in high - versus low - crime neighborhoods.

For the past two years the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence at the University of California, San Diego, has designed and run student co-research projects, with more than 150 students at eight racially diverse urban and low - income San Diego high schools.

One study showed that urban high school students were 21 times more likely to access mental - health services in a school health center than a free - standing center.

In a subsequent panel segment about the suggested ideas, Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon, professor of higher education at USC Rossier School of Education and director of the Center for Urban Education said that promoting more coverage on the racial mismatch between students and the teachers, administrators and other education leaders who serve them was important.

A 2015 study on urban charter schools by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that D.C. charter students are learning the equivalent of 96 more days in math and 70 more days in reading than their peers in traditional public schools.

Before joining the Center for Urban Teaching in July 2008, Kole served as superintendent from 2004 to 2008 at HOPE Christian Schools, where he led the expansion of HOPE from one campus with 50 students in 2004 to three campuses and more than 500 students in 2008.

The challenge, of course, is making sure more U.S. districts, especially in large urban centers, are achieving the same result.

«For Safer City Schools, More Counselors, Fewer Cops» is the name of a fantastic commentary published in the Gotham Gazette earlier this month and written by Roberto Cabanas with the Urban Youth Collaborative and Kate Terenzi, with the Center for Popular Democracy.

Ballard Power Systems Deploys 10 More Fuel Cell Buses in China Oct 19, 2016 Next - Gen Transportation News (Oxford, CT) Canada - based fuel cell company Ballard Power Systems says it has commissioned and deployed 10 fuel cell - powered buses in the City of Yunfu, in the Chinese province of Guangdong, as part of the government's larger plan to address air quality in urban centers through zero - tailpipe - emission mass transit solutions.

Clustered around urban centers with larger populations and especially on the coasts (where more electric vehicles are sold), there are many chargers.

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In the evolving mobility ecosystem, defined by the transition to driverless vehicles and shared mobility in urban centers, Goodyear aims to revolutionize the interaction between tires, vehicles... Read more →

With more than 54 percent of the world's population now living in urban centers, the goal of Soofa and Visionect is to improve the quality of life for people by providing easily accessible civic information at the right time and in the right place.

While large urban centers have often served as pockets for ethnic enclaves (think Chinatown) increasingly, ethnoburbs which host concentrations of ethnicities in American suburbs, are becoming more prevalent.