Sentences with phrase «of urban neighborhoods»

The weak housing market extends to existing home sales, too, and the same reforms would encourage energy retrofits and mitigate the problems of gentrification of urban neighborhoods.

Gentrification of Urban Neighborhoods Urbanization is going to continue at a rapid - pace.

This system was capable of analyzing the street - level photos of urban neighborhoods.

Gates creates sculptures with clay, tar, and renovated buildings, transforming the raw material of urban neighborhoods into radically reimagined vessels of opportunity for the community.

Theaster Gates creates sculptures with clay, tar, and renovated buildings, transforming the raw material of urban neighborhoods into radically reimagined vessels of opportunity for the community.

West's images capture the archeology of Brooklyn, revealing details of urban neighborhoods in flux that both describe place and its identity.

The empirical research indicates that gentrification can result in the restructuring of urban neighborhoods through the displacement of low - income residents of color, the loss of their culture and institutions, and the influx of middle to upper - class whites.

My work takes me into all kinds of urban neighborhoods, so I feel more comfortable in some settings than others might, but he should still respect how you feel.

The brick - and - mortar church of the urban neighborhoods thus became the main character in the American Catholic story.

A sense of community has been restored when residents of urban neighborhoods have been given responsibility for improving their own lives and a voice about decisions in their communities.

The Anacostia Community Museum offers visitors a chance to explore the history and culture of urban neighborhoods from Washington, D.C. to South America and other places across the globe.

What is a great kid - friendly feature of your urban neighborhood?

Not exact matches

Cofounder and CEO: Nick Gleason, age 33 Business: Web developer with the mission of recruiting and hiring its workforce from urban neighborhoods; CitySoft does no training but does team up with tech - training centers to develop training standards.

As the demand for housing has grown to far exceed the existing supply, many urban neighborhoods that have long served as a home for mostly low - and moderate - income households are now seeing an influx of higher - income households; in other words, they are experiencing gentrification.

Overall, researchers conclude, gentrification in popular urban areas remains «a major issue» which could continue to lead «to the displacement of long - time residents in a neighborhood.»

Breakthrough: A Toronto neighborhood aims to be the first place to successfully integrate cutting - edge urban design with state - of - the - art digital technology.

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.

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

In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.

And past efforts at doing that — whether through the urban renewal of individual neighborhoods or the wholesale development of utopias — have invariably failed for that reason.

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.

A pilot project designed for a dense urban environment, the building - specific service complements Starbucks broad portfolio of stores — from immersive coffee bars, to the familiar neighborhood store.

Baltimore is a mix of urban cool near comfortable county neighborhoods.

We want to penetrate the old neighborhoods, and have created potential for 34,000 housing units, 10,000 of which are in approved urban building plans.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

This sort of fatalism about urban neighborhoods (spreading to some rural areas and suburbs, as well) isn't just limited to aging drug dealers.

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

And as urban neighborhoods disintegrate, the least skilled members of our society find themselves alone, deprived of a functioning community within which they can find safety, self - respect, and the challenges that are prerequisites for self - fulfillment and happiness.

Through a posture of reconciliation and humility (not merely a vision of «community service»), they can engage urban communities through volunteering with early - stage literacy programs, partnering with ministries in underserved neighborhoods, and investing financial and human capital in local urban businesses.

In calling attention to the variety of ways in which government has subverted urban neighborhoods, he completely ignores the powerful role that the market also plays in this process.

The funding would come from money the Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated to help rebuild the neighborhood after the 9/11 attacks.

Urban politicians worked hard to win projects for their neighborhoods, and incorporated the BHA and the tenant selection process into the sometimes corrupt practices of the Irish machine politics that governed the city.

I am contrasting two formal paradigms of human settlement: the traditional town or traditional urban neighborhood and the post-1945 automobile - dependent suburb.

But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).

But as discussed in my last post, communal life was too hard for most folks, and the lesser ideal of the radical bohemian urban neighborhood, proved to have serious practical shortcomings in the 60s.

With other members of the Congress for New Urbanism, I contend that the mixed - use walkable neighborhood is the sine qua non of urban design and that it ought to be a focus of both public policy and urban planning, whether such neighborhoods are considered in isolation or in relation to other neighborhoods.

The formal characteristics of traditional towns and urban neighborhoods are easily learned by attending carefully to the most beloved cities and neighborhoods in the world.

This «city - state» was typically small in scale, with flexible but definite physical and geographic characteristics, It happened also to approximate the size of subsequent historic towns and urban neighborhoods — and for an obvious reason: it is an area that can be comfortably walked.

If one needs an image or metaphor to describe our current Catholic literary culture, I would say that it resembles the present state of the old immigrant urban neighborhoods our grandparents inhabited.

A student of mine went jogging with his father in their urban neighborhood.

And while the strains of the post-Conciliar years (which were also years of tremendous demographic transformation on the American urban / suburban landscape) have tested that claim as never before, there remain, in this, the sesquicentennial year of the erection of the diocese, many impressive signs of vitality in a local church that has been distinguished for its rich ethnic diversity, its identification of parish and neighborhood, its impressive clerical and lay leadership, its self - conscious social and political liberalism, and its sense of itself as the «lead diocese» in matters ranging from liturgical renewal to Christian social action.

Mitchell, pastor and founder of Atlanta's Urban Foursquare Church, knows the day is coming soon when his congregation most likely will have to abandon its home in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

In Indianapolis, my own church, Englewood Christian Church, is working with a wide range of neighborhood organizations toward the well - being of our urban place.

African - American churches that serve impoverished urban areas argue compellingly that many kids in their neighborhoods are left out of the «digital revolution» because they do not have home computers.

Livezey and his cohorts craft these detailed neighborhood portraits against the backdrop of a changing urban economy.

Before taking to the show floor, a small group of exhibitors and attendees at Natural Products Expo East braved the rain in Baltimore on Wednesday, Sept. 13, to lend a hand on the city's largest urban farm that aims to improve neighborhood access to fresh, healthy food.

About The Whitley Newly rebranded and situated in the heart of Atlanta's urban chic Buckhead neighborhood, The Whitley pays tribute to historic trailblazer and Buckhead founder, John Whitley, introducing a luxurious space for gathering and idea sharing to the thriving, metropolitan hub.

«Hyatt Union Square New York is located in downtown Manhattan's central Union Square neighborhood, and every detail of the hotel — from the design, to the amenities and dining options — is focused on enticing today's sophisticated urban travelers, and complementing the community's dynamic atmosphere and energetic spirit» said Chris Holbrook, Hyatt Union Square New York General Manger.

I thought about all of the vegan friendly restaurants I had read about, the history of the city itself, the architecture from neighborhood to neighborhood, the abundance of parks and murals that weave throughout the urban landscape, and of course, my favorite peoples who lived in Philadelphia that we were headed to see.

Characterized by a mix of urban and suburban neighborhoods, Brookline is bordered by the City of Boston on three sides.