Sentences with phrase «of urban city»

She adds, «There is a common thread in how the Philadelphia crisis started, what happened in Michigan, and what's happening in Illinois, where there is abandonment by these Republican governors or legislatures of urban city school districts.»

«There is a common thread in how the Philadelphia crisis started, what happened in Michigan, and what's happening in Illinois, where there is abandonment by these Republican governors or legislatures of urban city school districts,» she says.

Her black and white images capture candid moments of urban city and street life.

The cities in Arkansas sampled for their car insurance costs represent a blend of urban cities and small towns in the Natural State.

Not exact matches

But there's more to this city than its looks, including a dynamic urban center chock - full of world - class art, food, and design.

Ali belongs to a new generation of urban planners taping into the rising demand for the services of a profession whose fortunes are tied to surging property development markets as well as the growth in city - building activity across Canada.

«The Boring Company's goal is to reduce urban congestion and further enable mass transit through the use of tunnels in Los Angeles, Hawthorne, and Culver City.

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.»

«There's a massive level of excitement about what it represents as a symbol of urban renewal, ambition for our city and recommitment to our downtown as the heart of it all,» says the 37 - year - old mayor.

European aerospace giant Airbus is debuting its on - demand helicopter booking platform, Voom, in Mexico City on Thursday in an effort to drum up demand for choppers among well - heeled urban commuters sick of spending hours in traffic.

The city's urban plan was the brainchild of French immigrant and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who envisioned an egalitarian design for the District — a vision that was a physical manifestation of the American dream.

They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

Even as its groovy formula for urban renaissance is repeated in cities around the world — often with explicit reference to the original — the back - to - basics affectations of Brooklynization verge on cliché.

The ratio of doctors to residents is much lower in the medium - sized cities versus the big urban areas.

Devita Davidson of Foodlab Detroit, a network of food entrepreneurs in the city, has helped create a partnership with local urban farms called Detroit Grown and Made.

As per the title, he thinks the urban environment is our greatest invention as a species, and explores the economic underpinnings of assorted cities, ascendant and in decline, today and through history.

At the same time the new technologies - notably the combination of mobile and Internet of Things - means that the really smart cities can create an experience for their citizens that saves energy and reduces the stress of traditional urban living.

Philips, for its part, is working with a number of European cities on an urban lighting system that uses sensors to determine optimum lighting levels for the amount of street activity, saving energy while still providing a safe civic environment.

He chairs the board of directors for Urban Upbound, a New York City nonprofit, and is an associate member of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS).

Curtas, who has watched the city of Las Vegas attempt and fail at one redevelopment project after another, worries that Zappos will overwhelm the nascent pockets of urban activity, turning downtown into a glorified corporate campus.

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

«City officials may not understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness, climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.

The close concentration of urban dwellers, combined with plummeting hardware costs and the overlapping layers of wireless data that accompany us — beamed from cell towers, pulsing from Wi - Fi hot spots, radiating from smartphones in our pockets — has made it easier than ever before to track, sort, manage and organize things in a city setting.

But despite the growth in number of cities and city populations, Hinman warns that many of these urban centers may not be ready to accommodate a burgeoning population.

Meanwhile, co-working spaces also were debuting across the country — and not just in the largest cities but in smaller urban areas and university towns with thriving populations of entrepreneurs and independent workers.

Don Tapscott's warnings about the «peril and promise» of the Internet era go back to the 1990s, and urban theorist Richard Florida of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto argues the survival of every North American city depends on attracting a «creative class» of artists and thinkers.

So many bodies are brought in that the morgue workers struggle to identify and bury the dead fast enough to make space for the next batch that arrives with grim regularity, as the city's residents clear up after nine months of urban warfare.

Visions of the Smart City are starting to materialize as CTO's for major municipalities are coming to understand how Internet of Things products and services can provide cost savings, increase quality of life and promote safety in urban environments.

With «revenue plucked from the air,» in the words of Wilgus, the New York Central transformed its unsightly rail yard — an urban eyesore — into a commercial and residential district that contemporaries called Terminal City.

Since then, her ongoing research and those of dozens of colleagues have led to conclusions that urban pollution, particularly the kind you live with in dense areas like New York City, New Delhi, London, and Mexico City, is a critical health concern.

Houston and Dallas, the major urban hubs of oil - rich Texas, are also among the five cities where office rents are rising the fastest.

New York is not only the name of a state on the eastern seaboard, but it is also the name of a highly populated and diverse urban city commonly regarded as a hub for startups — along with San Francisco.

Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

In his outline, Zimmer is also careful to ascribe this to major U.S. cities, and not the entire country, which includes areas where lack of urban density means that transportation has different patterns.

During Hurricane Harvey, we saw how a city's layout can worsen the effects of a storm, as Houston's urban sprawl and scant zoning likely set the stage for catastrophic flooding.

The main outcome of Habitat III was that UN nation states agreed on the New Urban Agenda (NUA): a non-binding document, which will guide policies over the next 20 years with the goal of making cities safer, resilient and sustainable and their amenities more inclusive.

This points towards a vision for the future of cities, where diverse urban aspirations of prosperity and sustainable development are linked by a desire for equality.

Each year, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) compiles a list of the 100 fastest - growing inner city businesses in the U.S., recognizing the critical role they play in urban communities as both employers and community buildCity (ICIC) compiles a list of the 100 fastest - growing inner city businesses in the U.S., recognizing the critical role they play in urban communities as both employers and community buildcity businesses in the U.S., recognizing the critical role they play in urban communities as both employers and community builders.

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, the company's urban planning team, is set to pitch a proposal to rebuild part of a struggling American city as a new high - tech «smart city,» The Wall Street Journal reports.

Social movements have promoted the «right to the city» to denounce urban processes that generate injustices, such as gentrification, privatisation of public spaces, forced evictions and the mistreatment of urban refugees.

The overall message of the conference emphasised the need to address social, economic and material inequalities in cities and urban areas.

To his point, about 94 percent of Aspiration customers are spread across the heartland, as opposed to major urban areas like New York City and San Francisco.

Sidewalk's CEO Daniel Doctoroff has some experience rebuilding cities already: He is a former New York City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson YaCity deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yacity for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yards.

Former New York City Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew, worried that the Internet age was passing by too many kids in his urban districts, provided the B - schoolers with three beta - test schools and agreed to join the duo's previously nonexistent board of advisers.

International organisations which had previously ignored the significance of cities in international development - such as UNIDO and the Red Cross - pleaded to join an increasingly popular (and highly lucrative) urban field.

Attempts by Jews to move their people out of the urban centers and into colonies on the land have not been successful save in the neighborhood of big cities or in special circumstances.

So this year as we went in search of the best places to retire, we identified four archetypes of next - generation retirees and found a place for each of them: a college town for the academically minded, a city for the urban - inclined, a mountain town for lovers of the outdoors, and an overseas destination for explorers.

Sutton Place became a harbinger of modern urban gentrification and is still one of the handsomest and most exclusive neighborhoods in New York City.

But urban lifestyles, up to and including trendy bars, aren't just hip — they're a part of what powers a city's economic engines, bringing people together to explore new ideas, create companies, and build careers.