Sentences with phrase «of urban grids»

Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real - world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings.

Wilfredo Ortega's color saturated wall installation is inspired by a condensed bird - eye view of the urban grid.

Each piece is a response to the concept of the urban grid — the framework of streets, buildings, paving stones and indeed tiles, that shapes the cities around us — and the ways in which these grids are transformed by the movement of people over time.

Life in late - capitalist culture, according to Halley's own critical writing, has been inscribed and circumscribed by geometric networks: think of the urban grid, the office tower, the high - rise apartment building, the correctional institution, the parking lot.

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LA NY: Aerial Photographs of Los Angeles and New York (Thames & Hudson, November 7, 2017) is a dazzling visual tale of two cities, Los Angeles and New York, photographed from the air, shooting straight down to emphasize the particular patterns of place and how the urban grid adapts to local topography — and, indeed, how the topography is itself adapted to human purposes.

As in White Noise, a sunset dominates the novel's end: the chance alignment of sun and urban grid known as Manhattanhenge.

Holloway, a former editor at SA, uses the little - known story of the man behind Manhattan's street grid to talk about larger issues surrounding urban planning and the way humans «tame» the natural world.

They are considered anomalous relics of a chaotic phase of urban design that has since been streamlined by the clarity of the Western city grid.

In fact, informal urban navigation can offer a richer, more complexly layered experience of the city; these sorts of unaddressed places, located not by numbers and grids but by human conversations, can have an altogether different quality precisely by existing outside of a city's official system.

On December 12 Scientific American sat down with the new Secretary in an overheated conference room tucked in the back of a start - up grid - scale battery maker Urban Electric Power.

The team tested how parameters such as the flow of goods to and from relief centers evolved in two different model networks: a grid lattice common in cities and a «scale - free» road network that represents a mix of urban hubs and rural spokes.

Comparison of spatially gridded minimum temperatures for U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) data adjusted for time - of - day (TOB) only, and selected for rural or urban neighborhoods after homogenization to remove biases.

These health metrics are examined for two globally applicable objective site categories: urban and non-urban, that are determined based on the use of gridded metadata associated with urban characteristics: population and night - time lights.

Argonne researchers are working to create new, more powerful technology for long - distance transmission of renewable electricity, to balance rural supply and urban demand, and to integrate wind - and solar - generated electricity into the grid.

With a tagline that promises «minimalism can be bold», these pink adidas originals sneakers are covered in a layer of white stretch grid webbing - an urban finish that boasts style and substance in one slick package.

Anderson can't help but turn the open - air, urban setting into yet another deathtrap tunnel system, and CGI aerial shots dot Pompeii's opening stretch, showing the complex grid of roads, narrow streets, and aqueducts which make up a Roman city — and through which, of course, the characters will eventually have to escape.

This new vehicle is a modified version of theAcura RLX Sport Hybrid SH - AWD and is slated for testing by Honda Research Institute USA at the GoMentum Station — a 5,000 - acre proving ground in San Francisco that has more than 20 miles of paved roadway grids and is specifically designed to provide a realistic urban infrastructure for testing autonomous cars.

But just as e-signage presents an opportunity for a city's development, it is not without its challenges: to enable a city's evolution into a truly smart, and therefore sustainable and green urban living space, digital signs should support energy saving features, be implementable even at the most demanding of locations, power grid or no, and feature superb visibility in all light conditions.

The house carries an address that has appeared on the Denver tax roles for 87 years, and that exists in the middle of Denver's urban grid.

Already there's a young couple seeking an off - the - grid existence, hunters with their sights set on a backyard full of game, and urban professionals hoping to find a condo in the middle of a northern town.

These five offer a sampler of natural assets, from lush canyons to soothing water features to eye - popping views of the ocean and urban grid.

Ghost Money, a celebrated example of Bradford's map - like mixed - media collage, alludes to both the modernist grid and the urban grid, to the networks of local economies and to networks of public space.

Curator Nicholas Frank describes Scott Wolniak as an observer of the sculptural qualities of everyday urban decay: «the crumbling and breaking apart of foundations and underlayments, the grid loosening into gravel, rust and dust.»

Born in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford collages pieces of detritus — found billboards, logos, hairdresser's endpapers — scavenged from the streets of southern California, which together snap into abstracted urban grid paintings and other evocative compositions.

Born from a muddy palette, the artist's early provincial landscapes are a far cry from the gridded urban vibrancy of Broadway Boogie Woogie.

His first collaged paintings grew out of this process; these abstract grid - like images recall a night sky or aerial view of an urban landscape.

Baconian Empericism originating in 16th Century Dutch Landscape painting and finding its way into the grid of minimalist painting is manifest as a series of intersecting metal framings that hold the mirrors in place and distribute the urban scene along a flat grid.

Some of the artists draw inspiration from the lines of urban architecture, some from surface and texture, and others from vintage system grids.

Sourcing from architecture, mapping, and topographic views of urban land, Fraser found a linear, grid - like visual vocabulary which he defines as, not abstract, but «reductive».

Composed of rectangular shapes and vertical bars, Halley's works evoke a range of geometric network models, from the urban grid to high - rise apartment buildings to electromagnetic conduits.

By 1964, he began constructing images, which he titled» Composites,» to better express the urban jitteriness he felt, and the exhibition features a small never - before - seen macquette of a grid of 12 contact prints of shapes of light seen between the tops of buildings, as well as a unique work titled In the Depths with seven strips of figures brightly lit and isolated in shadows.

From melting grids and serial units to schematic renditions of Space Invaders and walls, the knowing allusions include both modernist painting and the fragmented material of contemporary urban life.

«Fearful Symmetry» directly addresses the issue of who creates urban grids, while «Top Table» explores the connections between empire and exploitation.

The work on paper often plays off of a grid, evocative of an urban topography, made irregular by Morris's hand and the textural effects on the paper.

The streets of Manhattan form the most famous urban grid in the world — we type in grid - shaped keyboard keys, we digest our digital media through tiny pixellated grids, and play the lottery filling numbers in small grids.

Inspired by Turner's dramatic sense of light and atmosphere, several of the works are named for the British master, while others draw from Mondrian's linear grids to achieve a feeling of urban landscape.

Inspired by a multitude of sources including historical photographs, urban - planning grids, Modernism, and graffiti, these semi-abstract works explore power, history, and the built environment, and the often dystopic impact of these factors on the formation of personal and communal identities.

Incorporating the dynamic visual vocabulary of maps, urban planning grids, and architectural forms, alternating between historical narratives and fictional landscapes, Julie Mehretu's beautifully layered paintings and drawings combine abstract forms with the familiar, pairing the Roman Coliseum with floor plans from international airports, Le Corbusier's unbuilt megacity with blueprints from Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando, and dashing it all together with a color field full of abstract geometry.

In Bradford's South L.A. studio, they are collaged, bleached, left to dry in the sun, sanded down with a Home Depot hand buffer, and carved into urban cartographies, some as striated grids, others into hilly terrain gouged with scar - like canyons that expose the layers of color below.

Examples include a grid of 30 small color photos, all diptychs; videos that incorporate urban noises with close - ups of the artist's face; and several intricate large - scale pen drawings that alternately resemble close - ups of fingerprints, vascular systems and tangled rope.

Driss Ouadahi's abstract compositions feature grid patterns with a density that evokes the tightly woven networks of high - rise urban housing projects, subways and fences.

Enraptured by the pulse of the city and its grid - like navigation structure, he began to make paintings that revealed the energy of people living their urban lives with hints that all wasn't as wonderful as it might seem.

Here's a tweet of mine making the point that innovation, in this case a fresh business model at Selco in India, can fast - forward improvement in people's lives in rural or off - grid communities even as urban power systems evolve:

However, the actual claim of IPCC is that the effects of urban heat islands effects are likely small in the gridded temperature products (such as produced by GISS and Climate Research Unit (CRU)-RRB- because of efforts to correct for those biases.

But, Lets imagine that 10 % of the land mass in this grid were URBAN.

The Tiny House portion of the program will include classes on tiny houses by Ryan himself, as well as information on urban chicken keeping, and regular tours of an off - grid container home.

Over the period to 2030, new connections to the grid bring electricity to over half of those that gain access, and offer the most cost - effective means of access in urban areas, but decentralised systems are the most cost - effective solutions for over 70 % of those who gain access in rural areas.

«It really has a significant impact on grid reliability and also on people's ability to pay their electric bills,» said urban planner Nick Rajkovich at the University of Buffalo.

In the main part of the paper, for China, we compare a new homogenized station data set with gridded temperature products and attempt to assess possible urban influences using sea surface temperature (SST) data sets for the area east of the Chinese mainland.

The gridded average net effect of NASA's urban adjustments on all their urban stations.