Sentences with phrase «of urban views»

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Follmer points out that architects and urban planners can use the technology to create three - dimensional, tactile views of cityscapes that can be manipulated by touch.

Along with influential readers like Musk and Harris, Wait But Why now has numbers any other startup blog would be envious of: A total of 31 million unique visitors and 87 million page views, with monthly averages of 1.6 million uniques and 4.6 million page views, according to Urban.

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

Mr. Carras is of the view that the swift pace of new condo construction in Toronto is simply making up for the decline in construction of single - family homes that is occurring in part because of government policies designed to restrict urban sprawl and promote downtown intensification.

Technical analyst Clive Maund reviews the charts of two urban miners that he views as strong buys.

If true, that speaks not to Didion's prescience but to the absurd provincialism of certain urban elites, who only needed to drive south on the San Diego Freeway to discover that their views did not represent most of California, much less the whole country.

The church therefore would seem to have much to offer the New Urbanist enterprise out of its own long intellectual and spiritual traditions — not least a serious and sophisticated view of human nature and human community, a pastoral mandate to serve rich and poor, and a long history of urban and architectural patronage.

Superb though it is, Vale's history affords a view mostly from the perspective of public housing architects, planners, urban reformers, and policymakers.

She viewed the suffering of the urban poor in apocalyptic terms and vowed to usher in a different realm.

Our view of Spirit - filled people must include Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, and the 1,300 congregations who join the Spirit's pleading for decent housing for the impoverished urban poor.

Wayne Meeks» notable work on the social world of Paul, The First Urban Christians, gives the church a fascinating workaday view of its primitive forebears.

The view that cities are, par excellence, a means of human communication and cooperation is be-clouded, of course, by the fact of urban conflict and division.

This picture that God is understood by way of the affections tends to have much the same cultural location as does the view that God is understood by way of discursive reasoning or scientia: It is a culture marked by the high differentiation and specialization of social roles characteristic of urban societies and their economics, considerable pluralism of subcultures and worldviews, social fragmentation, personal anonymity, and rootlessness.

September 21: This video of a rat dragging a slice of pizza down subway stairs has amassed more than 8 million views, revealing that New Yorkers, despite our differences, are united by our urban trademarks: pizza and rats.

7:50 pm: Liz asks Gillibrand: After spending time working for Andrew Cuomo at the us department of housing and urban development, you have a unique view into his management style, which has come under criticism by some former members of the attorney general's office.

While Mr. de Blasio is popular in the city, his brand of urban progressive politics is viewed more warily in suburban and upstate quarters of the state.

But such views can also reveal some of our planet's biggest problems: deforestation, urban sprawl, intensive farming, pollution and natural disasters.

«The urban and historical data are so well - aligned that we can view scale insect populations in cities as a preview of what to expect elsewhere,» Youngsteadt adds.

In Sarianidi's view, this harsh land of desert, marsh, and steppe may instead have served as a center in a broad, early trading network, the hub of a wheel connecting goods, ideas, and technologies among the earliest of urban peoples.

Signature of Urban Lights To prepare a paper for publication, Loeb and Turner worked out some hard calculations based on the most detailed views afforded by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The analyses and conclusions based on HRMS - Texas are those of the authors and do not represent the view of the Urban Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation or the Ford Foundation.

Pope Urban VIII sanctioned Galileo to write a neutral treatise on Copernicus's new, sun - centered view of the solar system.

But with 24 - hour lighting, particularly in urban areas, comes severe light pollution that blocks our view of the night sky — a view that for millennia human beings before us took for granted.

From an anthropological point of view, our urban Western society is strangely unmusical, except when bursting into song on the rare occasions when the need for collective grooming becomes overwhelming, such as cup final matches or in pubs.

The reasoning behind this is that the major cause of urban heat islands is the reduced cooling that occurs at night when the «view to space» of the surface is blocked by buildings.

Researchers found that the individuals who viewed the nature scenes showed faster physical recovery from the effects of stress than the subjects who viewed urban scenes.

If you've been single for a while it can be all too easy to view tales of lasting love and marriage as some sort of sign for an urban relationship myth, meant only for the very handsome, the very rich or the very lucky!

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About Blog Fashbox is about fashionable living from an urban contemporary culture point of view, which I guess stems from hop hip culture.

Yet, easier overall doesn't always mean easier on an individual scale — and if you've been single a while it can be only too easy to view these tales of lasting love and marriage as some sort of urban relationship myth, meant only for the very handsome, the very rich or the very lucky.

Farmers often have a less materialistic view of the world than their urban counterparts, Miller said, adding that there is «definitely a divide» between people «in the corporate rat race» and those in rural areas.

truTV 5,752,634 views Urban Ministries of Durham serves over 6000 people every year who struggle with poverty and homelessness.

Yang takes the long view, transforming the ingredients of family melodrama into a serene, generous, comic vision of our tangled urban lives.

What results is the idea, contrary to the superficial view of Malick as a tree - hugging anti-modern freak that's the easy way out of interpreting The Thin Red Line, that there's magic in both chaotic and overgrown America and in urban, manicured England.

We're not sure of time and place, and at first it almost looks like a hip version of our present, as main protagonist Silas (Nicholas Hoult, Mad Max: Fury Road) wakes up in what appears to be a sleek bachelor pad with sweeping views of an urban landscape.

Critics have so far viewed almost all of Payne's films with favor, reaching a peak with Sideways, which no fewer than seven urban critics associations, including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and London, named the best film of 2004.

Yet the fates of urban schools and the surrounding neighborhoods are inextricably linked, as Mark R. Warren compellingly explains in «Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Reurban schools and the surrounding neighborhoods are inextricably linked, as Mark R. Warren compellingly explains in «Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational ReUrban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Review.

The images show urban and rural life in Kenya to give a balanced view of daily life.

The time we spent in Detroit left us with the view that the city has the potential to be the next great example of urban school system renewal, as soon as civic and state leaders are ready to step up.

The only course that is sustainable, for both chartering and urban education, embraces a third, more expansive view of the movement's future: replace the district - based system in America's large cities with fluid, self - improving systems of charter schools.

A sharp divide among Democrats was in full view at the party's national convention in Denver, where urban mayors and educators, gathered at a forum sponsored by Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), challenged the dominant role of teachers unions in shaping policy.

City Views: Three new reports from the Council of the Great City Schools offer a mixed picture of administrative attitudes, funding, and other trends in America's urban schools.

I view that as the wrong question to ask,» Louisiana State Superintendent of Education John White said Monday at an event hosted by the Urban Institute.

Most features of the context in which teachers work are viewed as more positive in rural as compared to urban schools.

Deborah Meier, who has spent almost 50 years working in urban schools and is vice chairwoman of the Coalition of Essential Schools, said that Natale's views are «probably the sentiment among teachers who really love teaching and have been doing it for a while.»

Some teachers in urban systems expressed the view that advocacy by parents is a key to changing these conditions: Parents can put pressure on the system without being fired and can get the attention of the school board or mayor.

Communities and schools: A new view of urban education reform.

Foorman and her colleagues» text reflects a deprivation view of reading difficulties when attributing reading failure in entire schools within urban districts not only to inadequate classroom instruction but to «lack of home preparation in understanding the alphabetic principle» (p. 37).

Since Arne Duncan's appointment, the ascendant views controlling the education reform narrative have been those of a handful of billionaires and an equally small number of high - profile urban superintendents.

38 Researcher David Tyack says, «In the view of most urban school - men of the late nineteenth century, schools should inculcate obedience to bureaucratic norms overtly and with zest.»