Sentences with phrase «of urban studies»

As a professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and director of MIT's Center for Real Estate, his work is at the confluence of urban policy and city - making and the factors that drive real estate markets.

David Geltner Professor of Real Estate Finance in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning, and Director of the Center for Real Estate MIT

The Washington, D.C. - based research group was spun off in 1940 and continues to be a major player in the field of urban studies.

Joseph Ferreira Jr. and Eric Minike (2010), Pay - As - You - Drive Auto Insurance In Massachusetts: A Risk Assessment And Report On Consumer, Industry And Environmental Benefits, by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (http://dusp.mit.edu) for the Conservation Law Foundation (www.clf.org); at www.clf.org/our-work/healthy-communities/modernizing-transportation/pay-as-you-drive-auto-insurance-payd.

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Kenny Cupers is Head of Urban Studies and Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Kolding's work celebrates a number of urban cultural, synthetic emanations (hip - hop, graffiti, skateboarding, electronic music), as well as the aesthetics of urban studies.

Recently SPQ has developed a cross-disciplinary partnership with the Queens College Department of Urban Studies to merge an education in urban research and service learning with strategies in new genre public and community arts.

Emily Bills is Participating Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies at Woodbury University.

Abstract: In discussing several school closings in Philadelphia, Strauss highlights the writings of Elaine Simon, co-director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

«Of course, nobody should ever be forced to share a vehicle,» says Carlo Ratti, professor of the practice in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and one of the paper's coauthors.

Melissa Checker is associate professor of urban studies at Queens College, CUNY and of anthropology and environmental psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Forum on Obamacare — Obamacare is Good, But More Healthcare Reform Is On It's Way, with moderator VID member Dr. Alec Pruchnicki and returning speaker Len Rodberg, the Chairman of the Urban Studies department at Queens College of CUNY.

Not exact matches

Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

Around this time, Hsieh was studying urban development and was especially influenced by Harvard professor Edward Glaeser's «Triumph of the City.»

«In this masterful study of urban warfare, DiMarco explains what it takes to seize and hold a city literally block by block and provides lessons for today's tacticians that they neglect at their own peril.»

A study from the Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center found that, in 2018, the top one percent of earners would get an average tax savings of $ 51,140, and the top 0.1 percent would get $ 193,380.

More than 40 percent of African - American families have student debt, generally taking on around $ 10,295, according to a 2013 study by the Urban Institute.

The study ranked urban centers — excluding the larger metro areas — using three factors: local business environment (length of the average workweek, revenue growth, industry variety), access to resources (financing and the amount of venture capital investment made per capita), and costs (office space affordability, labor costs, corporate taxes, and cost of living).

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

Researchers of the Canadian study says factors such as work, urban size, population density, economic opportunity or deprivation, and access to and quality of infrastructure, amenities and services may explain the community - level differences in life satisfaction.

Mr. Lewis has a BS in Environmental Studies and Urban Communications from Cook College, Rutgers University, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.

Since 1994, he has taught in the Department of Urban and Labor Studies at Queens College and has also taught at City College, Rutgers University, and the New York City campus of Cornell University.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- More than 35 percent of Americans have debts and unpaid bills that have been reported to collection agencies, according to a study released Tuesday by the Urban Institute.

The Urban Institute conducted a study of high DTI mortgages and discovered that 25 % of all Fannie Mae mortgages issued to borrowers with a credit score below 700 had a DTI over 45 % in just the first two months of 2018.

Ronald Lawson is professor of sociology in the urban studies department at Queens College, the City University of New York.

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

William H. Whyte, a leader in the study of modern urban street life, spent decades studying the patterns of diverse people on the move.

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.

Alan Weil of the Urban Institute, which has studied welfare reform extensively, notes that the system has been slow to acknowledge the evolution of responsibility from helping the nonworking to supporting those who have advanced in the work world, as Myrna's case illustrates.

One study, drawing on national survey data, indicated that evangelicals tend to be relatively isolated from the main sources of secular influence (e.g., higher education, professional careers, urban or suburban residence), thus permitting them to retain their plausibility structures more or less intact — although other modes of cultural accommodation were also evident.15

One particular boat which is really quite solid if one takes the time to study and understand what it really teaches, not what hearsay or urban legends say it teaches, is the boat of the Catholic Church... a boat that has weathered stormy seas already for almost two thousand years.

For example, the field education program, the study of current liberation theologies, and the struggle to keep the school's budget in balance all pose questions of Christian faith and ethics in their relation to urban - institutional structures.

Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

In some study papers it was proposed that although the church might be of prophetic service in a variety of arenas of public life, the primary locus of church mission should be the urban community.

Unlike the later contextualist interpretations of the urban church, an instrumentalist emphasis characterized studies and plans of the 1950s.

The third, the study of an urban, African - American Pentecostal church with strong family ministries, was conducted by Browning and his assistants.

Different understandings of God might be compared to different understandings of Jesus, wrote Mark Hausfeld, president of Assemblies of God Theological Seminary and professor of urban and Islamic studies.

A study of Portland's unique urban cheese - eries.

My decision to apply for a Churchill Fellowship followed on from case study research I was involved in with Griffith University (see the Burton pdf attached) in 2012, exploring the scale and nature of urban agriculture in Melbourne.

The present study aimed to assess the shelf space and strategic placement of healthy and discretionary foods in each of urban, urban - fringe and non-metropolitan Australian supermarkets.

The city pioneered the «centers concept» in modern urban planning, and when Reyner Banham wrote his classic study of LA's social - architectural geography, he famously relegated downtown to a brief afterthought «note» at the end of the book.

In four years he earned his degree in economics and urban studies, the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the nation's best sub-6-foot player and a brief span of respectability for the Lions.

From Grants Pass, Foreman went to an urban center in Pleasanton, Calif., where he studied electronics and got the equivalent of a high school diploma.

But a 2014 study of nearly 17,000 students in a large urban district in Kentucky found the opposite.

A study of low - income, urban US fathers, which controlled for age, ethnicity, education, cohabitation and quality of relationship with the child's mother, found that the hours fathers spent «hustling» for work were correlated with low involvement with their children (Cina, 2005).

A 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research revealed that students at five urban EL middle schools advanced ahead of matched peers at comparison schools by an average of ten months in math and seven months in reading over the course of three years.

Research Projects Art in Human Development Attention Related Disorders Research Project Exploring the Four Polarities in Child Development Evaluation of the Urban Waldorf School in Milwaukee Waldorf High School Research Project Learning Expectations and Assessment Project Waldorf Graduates Survey Colloquia and Conferences Towards Wholeness in Knowing; Pathways of Healthy Child Development Research on Waldorf Graduates, Phase 1 Research on Waldorf Graduates, Phase 2 Research on Waldorf Graduates, Phase 3 Research on Consequences of High Stakes Testing Study of Parent Volunteerism

According to a study by Byers, Dillard, Easton, Henry, McDermott, Oberman, and Uhramcher (1996), students at Urban Waldorf went from having 26 % of third grade students reading at or above grade level in 1992 to 63 % at or above grade level in 1995.

Part of the Global Exploration of Human Milk Study (GEHM) shows that the dietary diversity of an urban U.S. city falls significantly below that of the diversity