Sentences with phrase «on urban renewal»

Our city is experiencing a massive building boom that is focused mainly on urban renewal.

Like providing appropriate housing for indigenous people living on the city centre fringe, providing sustainable infrastructure support for the burgeoning urban sprawl, reinvigorating discussion on urban renewal by population density consolidation, managing the extensive stormwater runoff that pollutes the beaches and waterways, while wasting precious rainwater.

He also has contributed to books on urban renewal and wildfire policy.

Lately, as a director of the Citizens Union National Bank, he has been working on an urban renewal project that will clear the way for the bank's new building, which will be the tallest in town.

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Now comes an even more comprehensive claim about the positive impact of these schools: For, according to two law professors at the University of Notre Dame, Margaret F. Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett, inner - city Catholic schools are important factors in urban renewal as builders of «social capital» on inner - urban areas.

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.

A committee vote will take place next month on a set of principles for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban renewal Area.

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.

David Kidera, director of the Authorities Budget Office, said his office conducted the review «in part» to follow up on an article last May in The Post-Standard, which documented the urban renewal agency's continued hiring of workers who have nothing to do with urban renewal.

A hearing (watch the video) was held last week on City Council member Margaret Chin's legislation that would require the city to notify communities when urban renewal areas are set to expire.

There are no remaining urban renewal areas on the Lower East Side, so the legislation, if allowed to become law by the mayor, won't be applicable in this neighborhood.

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.

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.

City officials, accepting millions in federal urban renewal money, had promised a crackdown on vice, but it took the heart of a cop to know exactly what would happen.

Binelli presents a primer on Detroit, his native city, as both a symbol of urban decay and a place where he sees renewal and hope.

For a look at urban renewal at its best, head to the Yaletown district on the waterfront near the downtown center.

With Southport hosting the upcoming 2018 Commonwealth Games, the addition of Meriton Serviced Apartments on Como Crescent has been a part of the largest urban renewal project conducted around the precinct.

To date, the government of Dominica, through the ministry of tourism and urban renewal, has invested over $ 3 million on restoration of access, rehabilitation and upgrading of sites, and clean - up of debris post Hurricane Maria.

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.

Artist Heidrun Holzfeind, designer and artist Damon Rich, and writer Niko Vicario consider the legacy of modernist architecture, urban redevelopment, and self - determination in Newark, New Jersey, in an exhibition of new cross-disciplinary works produced on and around the 58 - acre urban renewal site of Mies van der Rohe's Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments.

Living Modern Heidrun Holzfeind, Damon Rich, Niko Vicario Curator: Laura Barlow Artist Heidrun Holzfeind, designer and artist Damon Rich, and writer Niko Vicario consider the legacy of modernist architecture, urban redevelopment, and self - determination in Newark, New Jersey, in an exhibition of new cross-disciplinary works produced on and around the 58 - acre urban renewal site of Mies van der Rohe's Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments.

Ground Floor at IDEAS CITY This participatory project focuses on potential uses for the ground floor of SPURA, an urban renewal area located on the Lower East Side.

Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as Los Angeles» housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Senga Nengudi spoke to the dislocation of migration, Los Angeles» urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility.

Gates has also become known for the development of large - scale arts - and - education - based urban renewal projects on the South Side of his hometown as well as in St Louis and Omaha, which he finances through the sale of his artworks.

Urban renewal and its challenges became an increasingly important theme in the works through this intense concentration on a specific place.

A museum's architecture may be deployed in a variety of ways: as an autonomous icon, as a flexible space, as a PR instrument, as a memory machine, as a stimulus to urban renewal, as a landscape theme, as a political trump card, as a storage depot for artifacts, and so on.

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.

596 Acres will present 155 + urban renewal plans that the city adopted in an intervention directly on the Panorama of the City of New York.

The 1990s and 2000s brought with it an age of urbanization centered around the renewal of inner cities, development of mixed - use properties in urban areas, increased attention to mass transit, and a renewed focus on downtown condos.