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Sidewalk Labs, the mysterious urban innovation group of Google parent company Alphabet, has spun out a start - up called Cityblock that aims to rethink health care.

And the Sears store was a way to take that innovation to fast growing centers of urban populations.

As one of the fastest - growing, high - tech urban centers in the nation, Atlanta is leading the way in creating a national center for innovation and industry growth.

The Hon. Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, explained that Canada must think beyond trade and investment to build new opportunities and partnership through innovation hubs and by tapping into the growth of developing smart cities — urban areas that use communications technologies to manage their infrastructure.

Located in Toronto, MaRS Discovery District is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs.

One of the world's largest urban innovation hubs, MaRS supports a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

About MaRS Discovery District MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs.

83 Degrees Media tells the stories of urban and emerging neighborhoods, community building, placemaking, entrepreneurship, creativity, arts and growing companies by featuring stories about talent, innovation, global diversity and environment in the Tampa Bay region of Florida.

About MaRS MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs.

The rapid adoption of fintech innovation in the region has been fueled by the rapidly expanding expanding economies, young - urban - digitally - savvy population, increasing

(@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs.

MaRS Innovation (MI), Toronto's 15 - member urban innovation hub, announced today that as part of Toronto Health Innovation Week, it will lead a health innovation and investment mission to Seoul, South Korea from May 9 - to - 11, 2018.

About MaRS Discovery District MaRS Discovery District in Toronto is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs.

Toronto's MaRS Discovery District is one of the world's largest urban innovation centres, cultivating high - impact ventures and equipping innovators to drive economic and social prosperity in Canada.

The AEC is part of the MaRS Discovery District («MaRS»), one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs.

Smart Mobility Panel Featuring thought leaders in transportation and urban planning, Onramp's panel discussion will focus on the intersection of public, private and academic collaboration when it comes to the future of driving innovation.

The U.S. economy is massive on a global scale, and much of the country's economic capabilities can be traced back to the innovation, knowledge, and productivity that tends to be clustered in urban areas.

About MaRS Discovery District MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs supporting a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

In the well - heeled urban clinics like the one that Wolf and her husband chose, she is surprised to find none of the innovations of the «70s.

«On behalf of Urban Expositions, event producers, we are thrilled to recognize Danny Meyer with this award which recognizes his commitment to driving innovation and hospitality in the restaurant community,» said Ron Mathews, Vice President for the Urban Expositions Family of Foodservice Events.

Told through the experiences of several of the leading figures in Australia's Fair Food movement, this book tells stories of personal change, courage, innovation and food activism, from local food hubs and backyard food - forests, to the GE - free movement, urban agriculture, radical homemaking and regenerative agriculture.

«These awards recognize commendable professionals who trail blaze a leadership role in the restaurant and foodservice industry, along with the Ferdinand Metz Foodservice Forum; for providing exemplary innovation; and initiating improvement and education by engaging the industry», said Ron Mathews, Vice President for the Urban Expositions Family of Foodservice Events.

Heralded as a major innovation in pediatric medicine, the mission of the hospital ship was to take ill urban children out onto the harbor to experience the healing qualities of fresh sea air and sunshine.

At 8 a.m., City & State hosts an event highlighting economic development in smart cities, innovation in urban development and smart infrastructure, New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

Here in Silicon Valley most of the innovation comes from midpeninsula suburban cities between San Francisco and urban San Jose.

The increase in use of words like «choose,» «compete,» «private,» «autonomy» and «innovation» demonstrated a growing prevalence of individualistic values coinciding with sharp rises in urban population, household consumption and education levels.

In fact, some innovations are already taking place on both sides of the Atlantic to stop urban sprawl, Jaeger points out.

FLY London is a brand of footwear which is synonymous with excellence and innovation, and it is the daily choice of thousands of urban dwellers as their favorite way of walking anywhere.

Deep in America's Heartland, Oklahoma City is an exciting mix of cowboy culture, Native American ancestry, and urban innovation.

The common characteristics of charter schools reveal which innovations seem most promising to urban school leaders empowered to set their own policies (see Figure 4).

In this edition of the Ed Next Book Club, Andy Smarick explains to host Mike Petrilli that to make urban schools work, a shift must be made from having districts run schools to letting schools lead the charge in innovation.

Street Furniture is dedicated to investing in research and development to ensure continuous innovation in furniture design and employ a multi-disciplinary research and development team of qualified architects, urban designers, industrial designers and engineers to fulfil this purpose.

Through social networks of policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and tech promoters, pace - setting urban and suburban districts adopt innovations and then adapt them to fit the local context and goals.

This past spring, Figueroa was part of the Harvard team — including students from the Kennedy School, Law School, and Business School — that took first place in the Public Schools Urban Education Redesign Challenge, a national case competition for innovation in urban educaUrban Education Redesign Challenge, a national case competition for innovation in urban educaurban education.

For years, conservatives properly accused traditional urban school systems of being stubbornly resistant to change, but recent years have seen far more innovation in urban public education than in urban Catholic education.

With innovation as its approach to tackling entrenched problems and attitudes that plague many urban centers of education, Project L.I.F.T. relies on several research - proven programs and applications in its turnaround strategy.

Louis (1989), drawing from a survey and case - study investigation of initiatives in urban secondary schools, identified four district - level approaches to school improvement: innovation implementation (uniform processes and outcomes), evolutionary planning (uniform processes, variable outcomes), goal - based accountability (variable processes, uniform outcomes), and professional investment (variable processes and outcomes).

This course also helps them situate this particular work within the larger context of challenges and innovations in urban education by introducing participants to literature on the achievement gap, the impact of racial identity on school achievement, charter school policy and critiques, and the advent and development of charter schools serving low income students that are based on high support and high expectations.

The index measures innovation activities and conditions of urban schools along 42 indicators in nine categories: Innovation Culture Need for Academic Improvement Collaboration and Coordination Read more about The U.S. Education Innovation Index: Prototype and Report -LSB-...]

The plan was spelled out by Robert Simmons, an urban education professor whom Henderson hired last year to become the school system's chief of innovation and research.

Competition breeds excellence and encourages innovation,» Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky told the National Urban League Conference last year.

The inquiry comes as charter schools, once celebrated as laboratories of urban educational achievement and innovation, increasingly face a backlash from teachers» unions and political figures ranging from the mayor of New York City to a third - party candidate for governor of Connecticut.

In collaboration with the Consortium, UChicago Impact, the Urban Education Institute's innovation arm, developed the 5Essentials system, which is composed of surveys, reports, and training supports that states, districts, and schools can use to track progress on the nonacademic factors proven to drive school success.

We don't often think of consistency as an innovation, but it's a welcomed differentiator in urban education.

Charter supporters say the system meets demand for high - quality education that regularly arises in economically distressed parts of the city, paving the way for innovation in a struggling urban school system.

Grenot - Scheyer made these comments while explaining yet another local innovation, called UTEACH, an urban teaching residency in which student teachers are placed at public - school campuses for a year - long program of working in real classrooms every day and taking classes with professors who have watched them teach.

Another innovation is the BMW Sport Line and BMW Urban Line, two ranges of interior and exterior design features and equipment that provide exclusive personalization opportunities.

«This vehicle is packed full of innovations and is perfectly sized and capable for young, urban families who need to get around town for work but get away to play on the weekends.»

In the past twenty years, planted walls and vertical gardens, one of the many innovations showcased in The Human Age, have gone from novelty to mainstream, as part of the reconciliation ecology movement that is working to preserve or increase urban biodiversity.

The Golden Gate National Recreation Area Public Affairs Office brings you news of the events, innovation, science, partnerships, and more taking place in one of the world's largest urban national parks.