Sentences with phrase «more urban place»

I love blue / black combos and it lifts this dress into a more urban place even with the lace - embroidered mesh material.

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One of the things that we have been seeing is that with more urban development, which leaves less space for water to go, and when water falls on concrete and streets it has [fewer] places to go rather than it falling on a wetland.

«Most rural places are culturally distinct from urban and suburban markets, where local competition is higher and where pressure from customers makes local businesses more likely to adopt new business activities to stay ahead of the curve,» says Fortunato.

He can sometimes be brash and over-confiendent, but Nenshi has done a lot over the past seven years to help reshape more than a few preconceived notions about Calgary and Alberta into a more modern, progressive and urban place.

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.

It is strongest in precisely the sorts of places one might expect — rural locations more than urban; southern and midwestern regions more than in the rest of the country; and among Catholics and very sectarian groups (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) more than in any sector of Protestantism.

Ampontan has some nice juxtapositions, jumping off Victor Davis Hanson among others, highlighting the culture - and - mores - rooted FACT that Greece, Southern Italy, Detroit, and urban Britain are simply more difficult and troublesome places to live than Germany, Northern Italy, Switzerland, and of....

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.

For city builders for more than a thousand years after Augustine the urban realm became a great memory theater where our best aspirations were played out, the place where we said the most substantial things about who we are and what we long for.

Today, Latin America is more urbanized than any other part of the world — 85 percent of its population will live in cities by 2025 — placing the region at the forefront of the fight to reduce food waste in the urban environment.

It has a more condensed, urban feel than the rest of town and it's a great place to spend your vacation.

This localisation (or, urbanisation) of citizenship may be expected to correlate more closely with the increasingly more place - specific nature of civil society in urban areas, offering better scope for «getting involved» in governance than at the more distant, «homogenised» notion of national level.

The European Union's regional policy and multi-level arrangement of governance have provided an important instrumentarium, as well as likely platform, for such para-diplomatic activities on the basis of growing urban — especially metropolitan — consciousness as places «that matter» (more than the rest).

With places like Ulster County happy to add one job at a time in building a more prosperous, forward - looking labor force, the remaining 20 urban competitors for Amazon's second world corporate headquarters (HQ2) are playing an entirely different game.

If it takes place after millions of people are removed from the electoral register we could see the biggest transfer of parliamentary representation and political power from urban to rural areas for more than a century.

But, the shift from less urban to more urban areas, while relentless and continuing for centuries, has taken place more slowly than most people realize.

The shift would draw down the makeup of many rural areas where prisons are located, to the benefit of urban areas where more crimes take place — that is, better for Democrats than for Republicans.

In the megacities that are home to nearly 10 percent of the world's 7.5 billion people, trees provide each city with more than $ 500 million each year in services that make urban environments cleaner, more affordable and more pleasant places to live.

In fact, informal urban navigation can offer a richer, more complexly layered experience of the city; these sorts of unaddressed places, located not by numbers and grids but by human conversations, can have an altogether different quality precisely by existing outside of a city's official system.

But the risks are not equal for all: In places such as the Peruvian Amazon, people in more urban areas are far more likely to die from leptospirosis than those in rural areas.

A newly published study co-authored by MIT researchers suggests that urban ride - sharing is feasible in a wide variety of cities around the globe — and indeed that the potential «shareability» of autos in those places is more similar, from place to place, than previously expected.

Brides planning a city destination wedding can worry less about the weather than beach brides — most urban soirees take place indoors and therefore, more emphasis should be placed on the venue's vibe when choosing bridesmaid dresses.

I found this palm pillow on Urban Outfitters and decided that I had to have it in my life, even more so after seeing it pop up in this great house tour, and I thought that was probably another good place to start.

# 2 A Pristine Town Filled with Shops and Restaurants: The Rosemary Beach community is known as a planned urban community which is the concept of a place that is more tightly knit together than your average suburban subdivision.

It worked nicely to keep my shadows in place, but to me it was exactly the same as the Too Faced or Urban Decay primers — only this one costs more.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

According to two reports funded by the Pathways program and produced by the independent Urban Institute, the Pathways program not only has trained more than 2,500 new teachers in 42 programs across the country since 1989 but also has succeeded in placing 84 percent of those teachers in identified areas of acute teacher shortage.

County councils, often with more pupils than urban authorities, also face big increases - Lancashire is forecasting demand to rise by 13,000, Hampshire by 11,000 and Kent is expecting to need places for more than 9,000 extra pupils.

This 6 - page brochure summarizes evaluation data from six place - based education programs representing more than 100 schools (rural, suburban, and urban) covering twelve states.The body of evidence reflects more than 1,000 adult interviews or focus group participants; more than 250 student interviews; more than 900 educator surveys; more than 2,700 student surveys; extensive document review; and dozens of on - site observations.

The decision to expand existing schools in urban areas, where land is scarce and expensive, is often the most practical way of creating more places, he says.

When all six components are in place and working together, the CREATE model produces the desired results — it enables teachers in urban schools to close the achievement gap between their students and students from more advantaged backgrounds.

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.

Six urban school districts seeking to strengthen school leadership find value in measures including using principal standards and putting more rigorous hiring in place.

The first six opportunity areas we picked are very different places — some coastal, some more rural and some more urban.

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.

Each year, Teach For America places more than 5,000 pre-K — 12th grade teachers in high - need rural and urban schools across the United States through a network of 53 regional centers.

The five places in Colorado with the best motorcycle insurance premiums were scattered throughout the state, although more than one was in or nearby the state's Front Range Urban Corridor.

Inflation: CPI - All Urban Consumers is a measure of inflation that includes all urban households and urban places of 2,500 inhabitants or Urban Consumers is a measure of inflation that includes all urban households and urban places of 2,500 inhabitants or urban households and urban places of 2,500 inhabitants or urban places of 2,500 inhabitants or more.

Yet this urban area, right outside of Philadelphia, is also a place where close to one in five households brings in an income of $ 150,000 or more.

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.

It is helpful to already live in a place or have access to a place where a breeding business will be permitted — e.g. a more rural setting rather than an urban one.

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.

And urban sketching, as a travel subject, also opens new doors, because it makes you interact with the place you are traveling in much more deliberately.

Unlike the wide - open battlefields of the past games, Online takes place in an urban setting that pits combatants in more up close and personal firefights.

- Link doesn't have much of a character in this game - they wanted players to relate to Link and play as themselves - Link's face doesn't have much expression in this game, and that was done on purpose - for Zelda games, the devs always try to make the player feel like Link - that was pushed even moreso for this entry - everytime a Zelda releases, Aonuma watches fan feedback and considers that for the future - the items Link uses to solve are always going to be important - regardless of the tech that Nintendo provides, exploration in the series is important - Link's growth through who he meets is also an important element of the franchise - Aonuma thought about Zelda freedom when considering Breath of the Wild, and was brought back to the days of the original Zelda - this was a big point of inspiration for Breath of the Wild - with Ocarina of Time 3D, Nintendo wanted to really utilize the 3D and had a desire to let players enjoy Ocarina of Time outside - the goal with A Link to the Past was creating more depth - Aonuma used to think that getting lost in a 3D world wasn't okay - this lead Aonuma to putting in tons of hints and guiding players - he has since changed that idea and convinced himself that it's okay to get lost - the first two years of development the devs created a game where just running around was fun - climbing is very important, because players can climb high and see destinations they want to visit - you can place your own markers to decide where you want to go - when the devs create a Zelda title, they consider not using the name Link - since they don't have anything else to go with, they choose Link - the name Link doesn't hold much value, since the player is the one creating the journey - when Nintendo first created Link, they wanted a character that is literally the link between people - that is why his name is Link - to think that the Zelda series has been around so long that there are all sorts of urban legends and myths makes Miyamoto really happy

Written by Urban Waite, the novel acts as a prequel taking place a few years prior to the upcoming Far Read More...

Maps range in size from less than 1 square kilometer for urban maps up to 25 square kilometers for battles that took place in more open places such as the desert of North Africa.

Close readings of the oeuvres of David Hammons, Adrian Piper, and others uncover the place of the body, urban space and memory in the works of Black artists, who are represented with more than 130 images.

Their work is socially engaged and Turner Prize in 2015 made their ongoing efforts in making our urban environments a better place more visible to the public eye.

In No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond, American architect Michael Maltzan traces the transformations that have taken place in the city of Los Angeles since the early 1990s.