Sentences with phrase «of urban blight»

The transformation of Manhattan's Lower East Side has followed a progression familiar to many city neighborhoods during the last three decades, shifting from a symbol of urban blight to a hot residential market and a destination for clubs, art galleries and restaurants.

Holt transforms a site of urban blight into an aesthetically stimulating spot that addresses environmental issues.

Garrone, who came to features from documentary, he brings a clear - eyed approach to the film and captures an atmosphere of destruction and waste in a landscape of urban blight and poverty.

Once referenced on Jeopardy! as a literal example of urban blight, a new housing development is being unveiled in Albany's downtrodden Sheridan Hollow.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

These properties are often areas of urban blight, rural abandonment, or places that others are reluctant to live in.

Not exact matches

Of course, business is not the only kind of activity that is blighted by urban conflicOf course, business is not the only kind of activity that is blighted by urban conflicof activity that is blighted by urban conflict.

We turn left onto Meadowview Road, just south of downtown, where streets are dotted with urban blight.

Though Jurczynski's urban experience may go underutilized, he'll no doubt do his personal best to help HUD achieve its stated Small Cities national objective of «aiding in the prevention of slums and blight.»

Often these lands are dotted with urban blight or are considered brownfields, which means they may have some level of contamination.

The Bronx, once known for blight and urban decay, is experiencing a bit of a star turn during New York's first truly competitive primary in years.

Four decades after hundreds of homes and businesses were bulldozed in the name of urban renewal, Community Board 3 took an historic step last night towards finally rebuilding on five blighted parcels known collectively as SPURA.

Future trials that dynamically measure additional biological information, such as cortisol levels (another marker of stress) and blood pressure, are now warranted to further advance our understanding of the relationship between stress and blighted urban environments.»

It's an idea that takes hold sporadically, when industrialization depletes the chaotic energy from the screen, when scores of stooped stick figures lose their meager jobs, when urban blight changes the tone from primary colors to smoky browns and greys, and finally when animation gives over to live action footage of deforestation.

On the strength of Staunton's performance alone, it is Leigh's most powerful film since Naked in which David Thewlis ranted and raged as the passionate misanthrope Johnny, adrift in an urban landscape blighted by Thatcherism.

Once home to a prosperous middle - class population, the area is now the scene of classic urban blight.

I was seized by the passion of education tracts by Jonathan Kozol and others; Kennedy was dead (a stunningly emotional time on the Harvard campus); and Johnson had placed education front and center on the national agenda, insisting that it was the surest and most direct way to end poverty, combat urban blight, and equalize opportunity in America.

Three years later, they opened a sleek, eco-friendly, technologically advanced $ 62 million building in west Philadelphia bounded by a vast urban park, the city's historic zoo, and some of the most blighted streets in the city.

One reason: Connolly clearly details how the development of cities — including urban renewal programs and the construction of housing projects that blighted so many cities in the 20th century — were strongly influenced by Jim Crow segregation.

Their disappearance weakens American urban education and blights the prospects of many thousands of needy youngsters.

Best known for urban blight and local corruption, Camden has an unemployment rate of 17 percent and 35 percent of its 80,000 inhabitants live below the poverty line.

First installed by the artist in 1993 in a former firehouse on 141st Street, the piece conveyed both a sober perspective of what the neighborhood had endured — the crack epidemic, urban blight — and also hope for the future.

Held was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the urban blight of the East Bronx, the son of a poor Jewish family thrown on to welfare during the depression.

Over the past five years, the artist's large sculptures, often built from repurposed materials found in blighted urban neighborhoods, have featured in a rash of major surveys that gather the world's most progressive work — 2010's Whitney Biennial, 2013's dOCUMENTA, and 2015's Venice Biennale.

Examples include Patio Taller, a performance space and grass - roots educational center in the industrial zone of San Antón that organizes a «theater of the oppressed» to address issues affecting their community; the collective transformation of the hillside town of El Cerro, Naranjito into a living mural that is socially and artistically charged; intergenerational workshops known as Escuelas Oficios (Trade Schools) that are recuperating artisanal traditions threatened by modernization and colonialism, such as weaving, lace making, and basketry; the revitalization of blighted properties and neighborhoods through participatory urban design of community centers, public parks, urban gardens, and food cooperatives; and the aesthetic and physical reclaiming of public space through movement by artist Noemí Segarra.

«I was reacting to the richness of the narratives there, the stories, the loss, the urban blight,» he says.

Environmental concerns juxtaposed against industry, urban blight, and the loss of the natural environment drive her practice, in addition to gentrification and the changing landscape of the Bronx, her home for many years.

On his own block on the South Side of Chicago, Gates has engineered a miniature urban utopia, turning the once - blighted buildings that surround him into artist residencies, a library and even a cinema house that shows works by aspiring filmmakers from the neighborhood.

Although the Bronx is considered one of the most diverse communities in America, its image has been largely defined by the urban blight that the city endured during the late 1960 ′ s through the 1980 ′ s when arson, drug addiction, and social neglect decimated many of its neighborhoods.

These weren't just industrial Minimalist finds, but tactile evidence of blighted urban communities.

It is a public space made from the remnants of a privately owned blighted property, like those that still litter the landscape across rural Alabama and so many other parts of America, urban and rural alike.

«It shall be unlawful for any owner of personal property to fail or refuse to comply with the orders of the manager of housing and code enforcement to remove from the premises abandoned vehicles, appliances, vehicle parts and / or any other piece or pieces of personal property if such personal property is dangerous to the public health, safety or welfare; or creates an unsightly condition upon such property tending to reduce the value thereof; or is a nuisance; or invites plundering; or promotes urban blight and deterioration in the community; or creates a fire hazard; or violates the zoning regulations of the city.»

In 1936, NAR created one of the first urban think tanks, the Urban Land Institute, to study the twin problems of blight and decentralizaurban think tanks, the Urban Land Institute, to study the twin problems of blight and decentralizaUrban Land Institute, to study the twin problems of blight and decentralization.

At the heart of the issue was the phenomenon of people turning tenement housing into penny - rent «hotels» that promoted urban blight and extreme poverty.

The urban entertainment center is located only eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles in a formerly blighted area of Glendale, home to 250,000 people.

If all goes as planned, the blighted waterfront will become 30 acres of mixed - use development called WaterWalk — a $ 138 million bet that urban...

In Los Angeles, for example, land for industrial developments — many of which are changing from industrial use to residential mixed - use — have averaged approximately $ 23 per sq. ft. at the beginning of 2014 and by year «s end, asking prices were as high as $ 32 per sq. ft.. There has been and continues to be keen competition for every developable site, with the urban core expanding into previously blighted areas.

In the 1960s, the term public housing became synonymous in many parts of the country with violence, urban blight and decay.

In this case, the neighborhood isn't blighted, and the property is to be turned over for development on the assumption that new commercial property that includes a research facility and a hotel, among other pieces of a planned «urban village,» will boost investment and increase tax dollars.