Sentences with phrase «of urban environments»

When demographers zoom in for a closer look, additional patterns come into focus that show not only the relative strength of the West and South but also the relative strength of urban environments — and by extension smart growth.
The areas of the study included a variety of urban environments, from major roads to quiet side streets and compared the data to those of their country cousins.
Urban Data WMO - «The nature of urban environments makes it impossible to conform to the standard guidance for site selection and exposure of instrumentation required for establishing a homogeneous record that can be used to describe the larger - scale climate»
It has been suggested that UHI has significantly influenced temperature records over the 20th century with rapid growth of urban environments.
At Jerwood Space, Lewis» work focuses on raw scenes of urban environments, capturing under - represented aspects of life through energetic and psychedelic brush - strokes.
Composed from layers of paint, gestural drawing, and found ephemera, his work evokes the histories of urban environments.
Birdsong and the impact of urban environments on natural phenomena are a core interest, and her award -?
Composed of layers of paint, gestural drawing and found ephemera, his work evokes the histories of urban environments: Parlá is a documentarian of city life.
The exhibition also highlights Reisewitz's recent handmade photo collages in which images of urban environments are embedded in scenes presenting the green expanses of Brazil's forests.
Sarah Morris's print Total Lunar Eclipse is a beautiful example of the artist's complex geometric abstractions based on the architecture and atmosphere of urban environments.
Rappaport is a co-initiator of V1B3 [www.v1b3.com], which seeks to shape the experience of urban environments through media based interventions.
In photographic film - strips Sigune Hamann traces the dynamics of urban environments.
Sarah Morris (b. 1967 London) is an internationally recognized painter and filmmaker, known for her complex abstractions, which play with architecture and the psychology of urban environments.
Working from photographs, maps, and city plans, Weston Teruya makes work that depicts the evolution of urban environments.
Tape graffiti isn't new (we've previously covered the impressive work of Buff Diss, who uses masking tape to create elaborate designs), but Sorg's technicolor creations stand out like a unicorn dream in the drab gray concrete of urban environments.
The wide array of urban environments is modern, sexy, and highly destructible.
The Foundation's environmental conservation program promotes responsible mining, healthy marine ecosystems and the enhancement of urban environments.
The Foundation's programs promote responsible mining, healthy marine ecosystems and the enhancement of urban environments through strategic design improvements in new and existing parks.
While the goal is to expose puppies to a wide variety of urban environments and unique situations, it's important to remember not to accidentally overwhelm the puppy with the experience.
Their kennels are a far cry from the comforts of family homes and the hustle and bustle of urban environments.
While, at the other extreme is the Pivo battery - powered city car, first seen at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 2005, which has been designed to serve customers who want freedom and mobility in the busiest of urban environments.
But as it turns out, many people actually like the density of urban environments, precisely because they offer diversity: Peruvian / Japanese fusion restaurants, live performances by Scandinavian doo - wop bands, a thousand quirky bars and cafés teeming with potential friends and crushes.
Amy says: «This is a technology that enhances our perception of the urban environment and is especially good for engaging young people.»
«After so many years of rapid industrialization and urbanization in China, soil pollution is clearly now evident and needs due attention,» says Yong - Guan Zhu, director general of the Institute of Urban Environment in Xiamen.
«We propose that modifying features of the urban environment could offer an intervention point between extensive socioeconomic programs and less sustainable individual - level intervention programs,» added Culyba.
The study is part of a larger project looking at mobility, mood and place and the role of the urban environment in promoting lifelong health and wellbeing.
It also fails to capture the complexity of an urban environment, such as how replacing trees with buildings affects the water table and wind speeds.
Our findings suggest that the novel selection pressures of the urban environment favour the decoupling of behavioural traits that commonly form behavioural syndromes in the wild.
«We need to work hard to improve the quality of the urban environment, for example, air quality and the design of green areas.
Oh, there's the brand of nudity that all of sudden Hollywood deems shocking (ie: nonsexual male nakedness intended to be comedic, as if we all don't know what men's bodies look like), there's copious, irresponsible consumption of alcohol and other mind - altering substances, there's even flirtation with the criminal elements of an urban environment possibly more organized for the benefit of criminals than the law - abiding.
By comparison, Diana's efforts to stop the Great War provide a sense of hope not present in films like Man of Steel or Batman v Superman, while also taking the superhero genre out of an urban environment and contrasting Diana's supernatural powers against early 20th century firepower and chemical weapons.
A study published in 2015 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine examined the emotional experience of a group of walkers in three types of urban environment.
The Bolt also comes packaged with several exterior amenities perfect for combating the challenges of an urban environment.
As a crossover it combines the classic MINI concept with the characteristics of a Sports Activity Vehicle — in a MINI that is at home far beyond the boundaries of the urban environment.
But then, we do most of our computing while listening to music or against the din of our urban environment.
With this, the artists offer an allegorical take on the transformation and upheaval of the urban environment, and more broadly, our contemporary era.
«There before me was the answer, as much a part of the urban environment as buildings, asphalt and trains... graffiti; the application of color, for the sake of color, to an undefined, often neglected part of the urban landscape.»
Rather than the density of the urban environment that she tends to portray, these new paintings are more suggestive of the earliest brimmings of Spring mosses, barks, and lichens.
The park's existence is based on the belief that reclamation, revitalization and creative expression are essential to the survival, humanity and improvement of our urban environment.
Drawing on the rawness of the urban environment, McCloud works on tarpaper instead of canvas, enveloping it in layers of liquid tar, foil and aluminum roof coating.
His work is concerned above all things with colour and sheer delight in the myriad brilliant hues of the urban environment, underlined by a critical concern with how we see and respond to colour in this advanced technological age.
This substantial transformation of the landscape at Laguna Gloria will improve the riparian community along the Colorado River and provide habitat to wide - ranging wildlife, contributing to the health of the urban environment in Austin.
Socrates» existence is based on the belief that reclamation, revitalization and creative expression are essential to the survival, humanity and improvement of our urban environment.
David Batchelor's work is concerned above all things with colour, a sheer delight in the myriad brilliant hues of the urban environment and underlined by a critical concern with how we see and respond to colour in this advanced technological age.
The Park's existence is based on the belief that reclamation, revitalization and creative expression are essential to the survival, humanity and improvement of our urban environment.
Crafting abstract paintings from fragments of the urban environment — permanent - wave end papers, billboard paper, posters, newsprint — Mark Bradford has built a body of work that is richly layered in both material and meaning.
Stripping away his recognizable 1950's kitsch imagery, Cutlip» s paintings are multilayered, highly individualized and capturethe essence of the urban environment.
This show explores Wayne Source's (b. 1946) large - scale colour photographs of the urban environment.
Engaging the complexities of painting as a medium, as well as the anxious rhythms of the urban environment and a wide range of cultural references, his agile, largely monochrome works propose an open - ended series of responses to this central problem.
For those who travel from the city to the country during the summer months, the landscape is a place not only for recreation but also for viewing, a place to nourish the body and mind through the act of perception, through the process of coming down, of slowing down, and thus removing oneself from the diurnal routines and omnipresent anxieties that many assume to be second nature — the simulated «nature» of the urban environment.
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