Sentences with phrase «more urban parks»

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BHP Billiton points out that, over the next 20 years, China's urban population is likely to increase by almost 250 - million people and the rising middle class will be looking to upgrade to «bigger and better apartments, sitting above more extensive underground car parks, which will demand steel - intensive building and renovation,» she asserts.

In order to pencil at these values with construction costs rising by double - digits per year, developers are designing more studios and urban one bedrooms with in - line kitchens and treating parking and storage as optional.

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.

Planners envision a linear urban park that runs from North Ashland Avenue west to three blocks past Central Park Avenue, connecting the trendy Bucktown and Wicker Park neighborhoods with the more working - class residential areas of Logan Square and Humboldt Ppark that runs from North Ashland Avenue west to three blocks past Central Park Avenue, connecting the trendy Bucktown and Wicker Park neighborhoods with the more working - class residential areas of Logan Square and Humboldt PPark Avenue, connecting the trendy Bucktown and Wicker Park neighborhoods with the more working - class residential areas of Logan Square and Humboldt PPark neighborhoods with the more working - class residential areas of Logan Square and Humboldt ParkPark.

Britain needs to embrace more light rail, discourage workplace parking, improve links between planning and transport and encourage vehicle sharing if efforts to tackle urban congestion are to succeed, witnesses to a Transport Select Committee inquiry evidence session remarked on Monday.

Britain needs to embrace more light rail, discourage workplace parking, improve links between planning and transport and encourage vehicle sharing to tackle urban congestion

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA, consists of five undeveloped lots just south of Delancey Street that have sat vacant for more than 40 years after the city razed the site's former tenement buildings and displaced thousands of residents.

According to the Rutgers - Camden researcher, the study supports the hypothesis that organisms living in high - stress urban medians possess adaptions to disturbance, making them more resilient to the effects of extreme weather events than organisms living in relatively low - stress city parks.

Other vector species — C. declarator, A. aegypti, C. chidesteri, Limatus durhami and C. lygrus — were also found more frequently in the urban parks.

Such developments include the birth of outdoor preschools, the rise of park prescriptions in urban areas, and organizations like GirlTrek, CityKids, and NatureBridge that get desk - locked parents and tablet - obsessed kids outside more often.

That was a exercise in paranoia that felt aptly stagey and claustrophobic on screen; this is much more opened out, with a fine eye for apocalyptic urban wreckage - the very nastiest kind of car park.

The three - row XT7 will come with Escalade - like levels of luxury and bling on a more comfortable unibody platform and in a size more manageable for urban parking garages.

The 2008 Scion xB is a good choice for urban dwellers who need a smaller vehicle for easy parking and maneuverability yet need decent fuel efficiency, more cargo space than the typical small car, and a back seat comfortable enough for adults.

Their vision: a smaller, more fuel - efficient car that could maneuver easily in congested urban areas and compact parking spaces, yet still provide driver and passengers with levels of luxury and comfort usually reserved for larger sedans.

The Rogue Sport is a bit larger all - around than most of its class competitors, and it offers a bit more passenger and cargo room inside while remaining especially easy to maneuver and park in cramped urban areas.

As such, the approximately five - meter long (16.4 ft) Sedan is much more agile in urban traffic, on tight hairpin bends and while parking.

More information about the 2013 Toyota RAV4: The RAV4 was one of the first crossover utility vehicles, and for 2013 it's been redesigned to better fit its common use — by urban and suburban families who want a fuel - efficient, reliable, easy - to - park vehicle.

Parking your car in an urban centre easily costs $ 8 a day, if not more.

Each year, home buyers across North America struggle with a familiar choice: They can pay more to live in a smaller urban property, within walking distance to schools, shops and work; or pay less for a larger suburban home with a big backyard and ample parking, but have to hop in a car for just about everything they need.

With so many dog owners living in urban and suburban areas, more and more people are taking their dogs to dog parks for exercise and socialization.

In fact, urban dogs, by visiting dog parks, doggie day care, and other places where lots of dogs congregate, are often more at risk than their country counterparts for picking up parasites.

They utilize a wide range of habitat from grasslands to deserts to forests and more recently, urban parks and neighborhoods.

A new report by the Institute at the Golden Gate examines how recent research has shown that while the general population is growing ever more urban and diverse, the range of visitors to national parks has not kept pace.

We love the urban parks because it means it's even easier to support the NPS during our travels as well as more opportunities to earn new junior ranger badges!

The Parks Conservancy's award - winning urban environmental education center — in partnership with the NPS and Presidio Trust — serves students (K — 12) through a suite of innovative and experiential programs, including summer camps, school field trips, community outreach initiatives, and more.

The Golden Gate National Recreation Area Public Affairs Office brings you news of the events, innovation, science, partnerships, and more taking place in one of the world's largest urban national parks.

The trail parallels Highway 99 and Interstate 5 as it follows Bear Creek through urban areas, rural sections and more than seven parks.

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WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE More than 80 oil paintings and pastels are included in this major survey of William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916), the American Impressionist best known for his depictions of landscapes, urban parks, women and children.

Organized by REDCAT with a consortium of organizations and independent artists, the festival connects artists from more than a dozen countries with neighborhoods city - wide, through vital performances in parks, plazas, galleries, theaters and busy urban settings.

ABOUT THE BROADWAY BILLBOARD The Park's Broadway Billboard series launched in 1999 and has featured works by more than 30 artists, including Edward Burtynsky, Meschac Gaba, John Giorno, Douglas Gordon, Michael Joo, Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Wangechi Mutu, Catherine Opie, Duke Riley, and Hank Willis Thomas.

The National Park Service (NPS) operates more than 400 parks and historic sites nationwide, including Gateway National Recreation Area — which contains Fort Tilden — established in 1972 as America's first urban national pPark Service (NPS) operates more than 400 parks and historic sites nationwide, including Gateway National Recreation Area — which contains Fort Tilden — established in 1972 as America's first urban national parkpark.

GLENN LONEY»S JANUARY, 2015 RAMBLES At The Asia Society: TAKAHIRO IWASKAI: In Focus, BUDDHIST ART OF MYANMAR, At The Brooklyn Museum of Art: KEHIND WILEY: A New Republic, At The CUNY Grad Center's James Gallery: SPECTERS OF COMMUNISM: Contemporary Russian Art, At The Frick Collection: COYPEL»S DON QUIXOTE TAPESTRIES: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth Century France, At The Galerie St Etienne: ALTERNATE HISTORIES: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Galerie St Etienne, At The Grolier Club: ALDUS MANUTIUS: A Legacy More Lasting Than Bronze, LITERATURE OF THE LIBERATION: The French Experience in Print — 1944 46, At LCLPA — The Lincoln Center Library for The Performing Arts» Vincent Astor Gallery: BROADWAY REVEALED: Behind the Theatre Curtain, At MMA — The Metropolitan Museum of Art: CAPTAIN LINNAEUS TRIPE: Photographer of India & Burma — 1832 1860, At The MLM — The Morgan Library & Museum: The World Monuments Fund 2015 Paul Mellon Lecture, RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ROME: The Art of Urban Form, LINCOLN SPEAKS: Words That Transformed a Nation, PIRANESI & THE TEMPLES OF PAESTUM: Drawings from Sir John Soane's Museum, HEBREW ILLUMINATION FOR OUR TIME: The Art of Barbara Wolff, EMBRACING MODERNISM: Ten Years of Drawing Acquisitions, At MCNY — The Museum of the City of New York: EVERYTHING IS DESIGN: The Work of Paul Rand, SAVING PLACE: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks, At The Park Avenue Armory: WAS — The Annual Winter Antiques Show: A Benefit for the East Side House Settlement.

And for more on the High Line check back soon for news of our forthcoming book dedicated to the urban park.

2006 The Downtown Show, The New York Art Scene 1974 - 1984, New York University Grey Art Gallery, New York, US Onestar Shop by Hans Schabus, Art Metropole, Toronto, CA Public Space / Two Audiences, Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ES Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, NO Location Shots, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, BE Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, FR Cerealart, Cerealart Lounge Pier 90, The Armory Show, New York, US Artists for Chinati, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, US The Early Show: Video from 1969 - 1979, curated by Constance De Jong, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, US Onestar Press, The First Five Years, The Engholm Engelhorn Gallerie, Vienna, AT Message Personnel, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR Not Quite Ten Years Without Martin Kippenberger, a project by Chris Hamond, Bar MOT for Kippenberger (MOT), London, UK That Was Then This Is Now, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL Czesław Miłosz / To Allen Ginsberg, Dvir Gallery, Tel - Aviv, IL Mental Image - Wortwerke und Textbilder, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, CH Conceptual Comics, curated by AA Bronson, Max Schumann, Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Alberta, CA Libri Books Bücher, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino), IT The Shape of Sound, Radio Arte Mobile, Sound Art Museum, Rome, IT Wall Works - Sol LeWitt, C.A. Swintak, Lawrence Weiner, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, CA I: An Exhibition in Three Acts, Futura Gallery, Prague, CZ I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, Lithographs, Publications and Ephemera from The Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, US On the Ball, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, DE Group Exhibition, curated by Peter Kogler, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, AT The Title As The Curator's Art Piece, A Summer Show by Mathieu Copeland (spoken word exhibition), Blow de la Barra, London, UK Into Me / Out Of Me, curated Klaus Bisenbach, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, US; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE A Bit Of Matter And A Little Bit More, screening Turtle, curated by Michael Shamberg, Chelsea Space, London, UK Moving On: Motion, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE The Known and the Unknown, Gallerie Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK As If By Magic, Bethlehem Peace Center, West Bank & Art School Palestine, Palestine, IL The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, US The Urban Forest Project, Times Square Information Station, Times Square, New York, US Word, curated by L. Brandon Krall, Deborah Colton Gallery, New York, US Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, curated by Jean - Marc Bustamante, City of Toulouse, FR Contraband, curated by Carolina Grau, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR São Paulo Bienale, Escola São Paulo, São Paulo, BR Busy Going Crazy, collection Sylvio Perlstein, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR The RxArt Ball, New York, US The Title As The Curator's Art Piece (spoken word exhibition) curated by Matthieu Copeland, Blow de la Barra, London, UK Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA Project 2023 - Arteast Collection 2000 +23, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, SL Break Even, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, US Open, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US Wrestle, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annadale - on - Hudson, New York, US Ideal City - Invisible Cities, curated by Sabrina von der Ley & Markus Richter, Europe Projects, Zamość, PL Into A Journey, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, DE Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery Of Images, designed by John Baldessari, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, US Art Metropole: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA Poster, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US Pandora's Reisen, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Dedica - 20 Anni Della Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, curated by Julia Draganovic, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, IT Good Riddance, curated by Claire Davies & Sam Gathercole, MOT, London, UK Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, curated by Susan Davidson, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, CN Not For Sale, curated by Alanna Heiss, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US Il Faut Rendre À Cézanne, The Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR

The background spaces have become somehow more banal, less extra-ordinarily dramatic — an escalator, an urban alleyway, a parking lot.

In our analysis we found that an urban development strategy focused on access for all, rather than for a minority who use cars, with congestion pricing, realistic parking charges, and speed limits low enough to stop the slaughter of pedestrians and cyclists would as a co-benefit also reduce oil use and CO2 emissions from cars to barely more than twice today's levels in 2020, way below the trends.

More On Urban Parks Downtown Houston Rediscovers Green with New Eco-Centric Park Boulder, Colorado To Get 40 - Acre Bike Park Greenwich Ecology Park The De-Greening of Tel Aviv's Central Park Milwaukee's New Sustainable Garden Park Orange County Plans for Giant Park

If we focus on all of urban india, that car alone, without greatly improved pollution control traffic controls, parking enforcement, etc will probably cost India more than it is worth to the individuals who are priveleged to own them.

But every time it builds another branch in the suburbs with its monster parking lot and its three lane drive - through ATMs, it is contributing to the creation of more greenhouse gas, more imported oil, more urban sprawl.

While city dwellers are always clamoring for more green space, urban parks may not always be as «green» as they seem.

A study from UC Irvine found that taking a walk in the park proved to be more stress reducing than reading and listening to music or walking in an urban setting.

The ideas of yesteryear are falling by the wayside as a new generation of green urban planners incorporate more park space, harmonize development with the environment, and even work on more efficient ways to incorporate mass transit.

Across the nation, more than a dozen cities are become officially tiny - home friendly and 50 - plus communities of tiny homes have cropped up — everything from intimate backyard co-ops and tiny house / RV parks to upcoming full - on urban developments.

As executive director of the Scenic Hudson Land Trust, he has led the group in safeguarding tens of thousands of acres, creating dozens of parks and preserves, and transforming neglected urban waterfront sites into more publicly beneficial uses.

More On Paris Failed Paris Olympic Bid Site Now a Booming Success as Eco-Friendly Urban Park Parisian Woman «Fixes» Potholes With Yarn How a Paris Suburb Went from Impoverished City to Green Powerhouse Architects Imagine a Utopian Paris in 2100, a Little Warmer and a Whole Lot Greener On a Tiny Museum's Roof, Paris Tests the Limits of Urban Wind Power Paris Set To Remake Its River Banks as Green Spaces, Open to All Ritzy Parisian Boulevard Goes Rural as French Farmers (and Their Cows) Take Over Champs - Elysees

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In the past decade, the SPNI has opened several urban branches in Israel's major cities, charged with fighting for clean air and water, more parks for children and sustainable urban planning policies.

More recently, Milagros Lecuona, an urban planner and now co-chair of the Tappan Bridge Park initiative, had the same idea.

Through the National Weather Service (NWS) Cooperative Observer Program (COOP), more than 10,000 volunteers take daily weather observations at National Parks, seashores, mountaintops, and farms as well as in urban and suburban areas.