Sentences with phrase «of urban renewal»

It may be five or ten years before the complete vision of the park is realized, but the project is already an inspiring example of urban renewal and land rehabilitation and conservation.

Instead of solving problems they have only created new ones, as in the cases of urban renewal and the welfare system.

«How is the library in need of urban renewal — which is a key part of the library proposal,» he added.

It is not too late to write a new chapter in the history of Catholic education — one of urban renewal rather than decline.

The boomers tend to live in the more central areas and opening this real estate up to younger families with young children or who want children, can effect a form of urban renewal.

The origins of the gang date back to the early»60s, when Edward Seaga, a Jamaican politician belonging to the country's conservative Jamaican Labor Party (JLP) decided to embark on a project of urban renewal in the capital city of Kingston.

People on the Lower East Side have been fighting about SPURA since at least 1967, when thousands of homes and businesses were bulldozed in the name of urban renewal.

After an hourlong meeting with city finance commissioner David DelVecchio, who is also treasurer of the urban renewal agency, councilors said they still had unresolved questions.

The era of urban renewal in the 1970s brought heady times to many failing cities throughout the country, but Stamford's transformation was the most sweeping.

#gentrification #displacement #race #class #technology #industry #neo - colonialism Any conversation among artists these days is bound to turn to the question of gentrification — the process of urban renewal by private developers that ultimately displaces poor residents in favor of the upwardly mobile.

In what promises to be a thought - provoking new exhibit organized by architecture and design curator Barry Bergdoll, MoMA is examining more than a half century's worth of urban renewal schemes by architects both famous (Mies Van der Rohe) and unknown (James Fitzgibbon).

«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.

«Road construction works criss - crossing the length and breadth of the state give new hope of urban renewal and smooth transportation of persons and goods in a boost of economic and social activities.»

The report by the state Authorities Budget Office also says the city «appears to misuse various grant funds» to pay personnel costs for some employees of the urban renewal agency.

Residents would have been able, she explained, to ask for an extension of the urban renewal area or a rezoning if they had known restrictions on development were set to expire.

By taking on such real - life roles as site planner, financial analyst, marketing director, and neighborhood - to - city liaison, team members learn firsthand the nitty - gritty intricacies of urban renewal.

In this month's cover article in the Atlantic Monthly, the professor famous for his «creative class» theory of urban renewal suggests that the recession will result in growth in a few mega-regions across the country and...

Many first - time homebuyers are trading big metropolises for smaller cities that are in the early waves of urban renewal.

South Africa's largest city is a hotbed of urban renewal, with a trendy dining scene, nightlife, and shopping to rival any international city.

Stan Douglas will present four new photographs relating to his next project, «Win, Place, or Show», a video installation that is concerned with the effects of urban renewal and the influence of television as a socializing agent.

This year, the work of the eight finalists draws on themes of urban renewal and gentrification, power struggles, and a more surprising common undercurrent, Nazism.

Both the blight of urban decline and the variant results of urban renewal are on display.

Process is also on display at «HACLab Pittsburgh: Imagining the Modern» (opening at the Carnegie Museum of Art on Sept. 12) which assesses the successes and failures of urban renewal projects in Pittsburgh in the postwar period.

Lyon's documentary series became the model for visual work addressing the aging infrastructure of American cities and the perils of the 1960s policy of urban renewal through demolition.

The magazine ranked Gates No. 11, recognizing him for mastering the art of urban renewal.

Most of the rest was built for cars: the 19th century cities in Northern England were depopulated after the war because of urban renewal schemes.

We've written before about the awesome example of urban renewal set by Bogota in Colombia, including a link to the first part of StreetFilms» inspiring coverage of the city's initiatives to improve walking, biking and mass transit infrastructure.

If successfully implemented, they offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year - round crop production), -LSB-...] a long - term benefit would be the gradual repair of many of the world's damaged ecosystems through the systematic abandonment of farmland.

«It was a little section left out of the urban renewal area, and people thought I was stupid because it was so deplorable.

Four decades after hundreds of homes and businesses were bulldozed in the name of urban renewal, Community Board 3 took an historic step last night towards finally rebuilding on five blighted parcels known collectively as SPURA.

One of the most popular Portland destinations, the Pearl District is a shining example of urban renewal — what was once an area of industrial warehouses and abandoned railroad yards is now the city's most cosmopolitan neighborhood.