Sentences with phrase «of urban form»

One that wasn't paywalled, The Influence of Urban Form on GHG Emissions in the U.S. Household Sector, showed that «doubling population - weighted density is associated with a reduction in CO2 emissions from household travel and residential energy consumption by 48 % and 35 %, respectively.»

PLANE — SITE is a global agency working at the interface of urban form, cultural space, and social life.

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.

Their paper, «The Effects of Urban Form on Ambient Air Pollution and Public Health Risk: A Case Study in Raleigh, North Carolina,» was recently posted electronically in the journal Risk Analysis, published by the Society for Risk Analysis.

Any examination of the development of urban form would reveal forces easily as influential as the Church's, and I would argue usually more so.

Kenor recently finished a massive wall in Lodz Poland as part of the URBAN FORMS GALLERY Project.

Using aerial news footage of the devastation in Texas and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina (2005), as well as the floods in Missouri and Mississippi (2008), this latest animation by Wise presents a complex interaction of urban forms, nature, and landscape.

I think if we apply creative responses to policy and to the landscape of the city, we can all be artists in the terms of the urban forms and the policies that shape our cities.

Not exact matches

Trudeau and his ministers know the urban middle - and upper - middle - class Canadians that form the core of their political constituency are sensitive about housing.

Away from public meetings, she adds, more planners also find themselves working with new forms of real - time urban data and analytics techniques to assist with their work.

Urban Reclamations recently added e-commerce capabilities to its website, offering tables and chairs in multiple sizes and finishes (it even accepts Bitcoin as one form of payment).

The interface takes on the three - dimensional form of whatever you are looking at, be it a pie chart or an urban landscape — like a high - tech raised - relief map.

He will talk about this new form of urban development and about the role that Blockchain technology can play in making it work.

Though Dubai is full of blockbuster development projects, the city's urban form is perhaps best known for one specific attribute: height.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allows borrowers to obtain down - payment funds from a family member or other approved donor, in the form of a gift.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

Governments in most Third World countries, supported by development policies in First and Second World countries, have been concerned about supplying sophisticated forms of energy for industrialization and urban life.

Paolo Soleri has conceived of an alternative form of urban life in which the architectural ecology — arcology for short — would promote both justice and the environment.

Among the most provocative is that by Daniel V. A. Olson, which takes issue with the notion that modern urban life weakens all forms of religion.

I present urban form to my students in the long and large western humanist tradition that sees cities as communal artifacts that human animals by our nature make in order to live well (with all the teleological and virtue ethics implications of that tradition's notion of living well).

In addition, although most so - called development aid in the past has been at best ambiguous in its effects, there are forms of aid that the United States could offer to rural and urban communities in Mexico that would be genuinely supportive.

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.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

The old lussegubbar custom virtually disappeared with urban migration, and white - clad Lucias with their singing processions were considered a more acceptable, controlled form of celebration than the youthful carousals of the past.Stockholmproclaimed its first Lucia in 1927.

The old lussegubbar custom virtually disappeared with urban migration, and white - clad Lucias with their singing processions were considered a more acceptable, controlled form of celebration than the youthful carousals of the past.

Unlike his heat the first run was not quite his clinical best but the second certainly showed glimpses of the form that saw him become 2017 UCI Urban Cycling world silver medallist.

While in many parts of the country, driving is the quickest form of transportation, that is not obviously the case in urban areas (rush hour traffic downtown, anyone?).

In April, the DuPage County Department of Housing and Urban Development will release $ 266,220 in the form of a Community Development Block Grant, according to Mike Adams, Park District assistant director.

The six districts formed the Urban School Food Alliance in 2012 to combine their purchasing power of $ 520 million to force lower prices on better quality food, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlery.

The new boroughs were formed out of a mixture of inner London metropolitan boroughs, municipal boroughs and urban districts in outer London, and three county boroughs, Croydon, West Ham and East Ham.

Here, also, the urban dimension has become particularly evident as a strategic choice and platform for pursuing a nationalist agenda in the form of Basque Eurocity (MOT, 2013).

Sub-national government in the form of combined urban authorities and county regions headed by DEEMs will be more easily manipulated by central government than would be a system of local government.

Catholic migration to rural areas was largely confined to the North and the West, and largely dates to the 19th century, after which further Catholic migration to the U.S. was largely to large urban areas, (like all other forms of immigration to the U.S).

Goldsmith was a Republican star in the late 1990s, a pillar of George W. Bush's «compassionate conservatism» approach in the form of a Republican who really cared about the details of urban policy.

She served as Chair of the Urban Health Sub-committee — and was responsible for bills that increased penalties for various forms of domestic abuse.

ALBANY — Taking a scythe to one of the weedier corners of the state's administrative garden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed,» according to the governor's release.

She served as Chair of the Urban Health Sub-committee, and was responsible for bills that increased penalties for various forms of domestic abuse.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is set to reward school children who partake in the assembly's «Me and my tree competition», which forms part of the Kumasi Urban Forestry Project.

The guide was formed through a collaborative effort by Mayor Byron W. Brown, Chairman of Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, Buffalo Niagara Partnership, CBRE Buffalo and Buffalo Place with funding provided by National Grid.

With his interest piqued, he then went on to educate himself on zoning law as well as the civic community, earned a masters of science in urban affairs and planning from Hunter College and helped form the North Flushing Civic Association.

Charcoal is mostly used in urban centers while firewood is the predominant form of wood fuel used in rural areas.

Marek Urban and colleagues at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg were inspired to create their self - healing plastic by signs of healing in nature such as newly formed tree bark.

Most major ancient urban civilisations, such as Egypt and Mesopotamia, formed around big rivers, so the implications of these findings extend well beyond the Indus.

The group formed with the goal of not only understanding Katrina's social and environmental impact but also of publicizing the risk around the world to low - lying urban communities.

By the early 1990s, urban archaeology had become so much a part of popular consciousness that an urban dig recently formed the backdrop for a television commercial.

«The overall goal of our study was to clarify which urban form — sprawl or more - dense development — is most appropriate for UHI mitigation,» said the study's lead author Neil Debbage, doctoral student in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences» department of geography.

Another particulate, secondary sulfates (formed in the atmosphere from emissions, such as those from coal - fired power plants), had the highest concentration (between 30 and 44 percent) of all pollutants at urban and rural sites, with readings being mostly uniform across locations.

TROMSØ, Norway — A novel form of the «urban heat island» effect might contribute to why the far north is warming faster than the rest of the globe, a study of five Arctic cities finds.

Rats have long been one of the world's most ubiquitous — and infamous — forms of urban wildlife, synonymous with pestilence and squalor.

The nation's 1,128 CHCs form the core of the nation's safety net, providing comprehensive care in 8,000 medically underserved urban and rural communities.