Sentences with phrase «new urban conditions»

Re-designed to capture the new urban conditions that have prevailed globally PERISCOPE Lounge, a creative idea of decaARCHITECTURE, is conceptualized as a container of surveillance installations.

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In fact, these conditions are worse today for the black poor, the one third of us who reside primarily in the urban centers like Chicago and New York.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

New York City officials want to make sure that a business that caught fire last week under a critical stretch of the Metro - North Railroad tracks in Harlem doesn't store flammable gas and liquids, seeking to place such conditions on an amended lease with the Urban Garden Center.

«Some people know that the conditions on the ground are so harsh that their families are not going to be able to stay,» said Edwin Meléndez, a professor of urban affairs and planning at Hunter College in New York City and director of the school's Center for Puerto Rican Studies.

The groundbreaking program encourages urban, suburban, and rural transit agencies to find new, cost - effective ways to manage and maintain the condition of their systems — everything from railroad tracks and train stations to bus facilities and electrical equipment, resulting in improved system safety and reliability.

It not only celebrated the opening of Miami's newest cultural district with people, food, and music; it also pondered the importance of cultural communities amidst new urban developments and tested the conditions for the formation of new constituencies, tide after tide, side by side.

Los Angeles - based architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of JohnstonMarkLee architectural firm were instrumental in examining these areas defining characteristics and placing the works of art in ways which either reinforce the urban condition, or challenges it by creating a new way of experiencing a neighborhood.

In the proposal, new boundary conditions emerged that would clarify the roles of the urban, the ecological and the farming communities which altogether comprise a major part of the landscape of Holland.

«From transforming conditions for low - wage workers to identifying internet security vulnerabilities, from celebrating the African American string band tradition to designing resilient urban habitats, these new MacArthur Fellows bring their exceptional creativity to diverse people, places, and social challenges.

Towards Sustainable Architecture describes the foundation of principles of the New Urban Guild's Project: SmartDwelling, which is based on frugality that is passive and natural first, so that less mechanical conditioning is required.