Sentences with phrase «own urban problems»

«I came to believe that the lack of new wealth creation was really the root cause of urban problems,» says CitySoft's Nick Gleason.

«I came to believe that the lack of new wealth creation was really the root cause of urban problems,» says Gleason.

Many intractable urban problems are in fact not engineering problems at all, including the ones that most look like it.

The tech industry is better known in its Silicon Valley backyard for contributing to rather than solving urban problems like unaffordable housing and traffic.

Here at Tumml, we support entrepreneurs that are developing innovative solutions to our most pressing urban problems.

As the global population shifts to cities, solving urban problems represents the key to improving the lives of millions.

Despite promises by event organizers and local bid committees, and expectations by the public that the event will solve some of their daily urban problems, host cities often end up with unwanted or unused facilities and saddled with debts that will take decades to repay.

Biblicists will no doubt reject this approach as being wishy - washy and insufficiently prophetic, just as some activists have criticized Riverside Church's proposed «center for health of the city,» a think tank on urban problems.

Our failure to answer this question is at the heart of almost all of today's urban problems.

No attempt to solve urban problems can ignore the key role played by institutions.

Christianity revitalized life in Greco - Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems.

However halting, despite the hiccoughs and errors, it's hard not to be strangely warmed that many churches aspire to replicate the work of the early church, stunningly summarized by Rodney Stark in one of my favorite quotations: «Christianity revitalized life in Greco - Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems.

Several task groups evolved from these; their goal was to raise the level of concern on the city council by working to elect candidates aware of urban problems.

City people do not want to discuss only urban problems.

He's also politically extremely savvy and has come up with a very interesting piece of analysis that highlights the Conservative Party's urban problem.

«I am waiting to finish making contact with important inner city neighborhood and church leaders to build on my historical understanding of worsening urban problems that will be important issues in this campaign,» Guy said today.

Cities worldwide are promoting environmentally «green» roofs to mitigate several urban problems.

When the AIDS epidemic first surfaced in the U.S. 30 years ago, the illness was primarily an urban problem, centered in cities such as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Moynihan in 1966, appearing before the Senate Government Operations subcommittee during hearings on urban problems

One day, Edward Banfield brought in as guest lecturer to his Urban Problems course a young assistant labor secretary from Washington named Moynihan to talk about LBJ's new War on Poverty — my first glimpse of the man who would become my most important mentor and teacher.

During the late 1990s, he was the chair and director of the National Community Development Policy Analysis Network, which produced the social science synthesis volume, Urban Problems and Community Development.

The story teaches about the migratory behaviors of Canada geese and the urban problems of storm water management — in a format suitable for elementary teaching.

Christianity revitalized life in Greco - Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems.

«Try this debut mystery by a journalist for its open treatment of current urban problems, clean prose, and realistic depiction of women working together.

Fleas are really somewhat more of an urban problem,» says Dr. Morris.

This work is part of an ongoing investigation of urban problems in cities as contradictory and different as Caracas and New York: where I am from, where I live.

Presentations focused on deepening inequality, the evidence for dangerous climate change, population trends, urban problems, new economic models and more.

Poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition have become critical urban problems.

The Lab's work draws on diverse fields such as urban planning, architecture, design, engineering, computer science and social science to capture the multi-disciplinary nature of urban problems and deliver research and applications that empower citizens to make choices that result in a more liveable urban condition.

But so far, they look like a good solution to a basic urban problem.

The urban planning profession, as Vancouver Planning Director Brent Toderian asserted, «has been largely a failure over the past few decades» in dealing with urban problems.

Indeed, given the increasing incidences of downloading and its effects on municipalities, as well as a growing awareness of the extent of urban problems, such as crime and homelessness, it is highly probable that these calls will crescendo.

He was shocked to learn that 3 out of 10 children go hungry every single day and was even more shocked to learn that child hunger isn't just an urban problem — it's a rural one too.

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The problem you address could be as targeted and serious as leaded water in Flint, Mich., which David Tarver is helping his community solve through an urban entrepreneurship initiative.

Bush says many fellows who come to work in the US from other countries are surprised by the systemic problems they encounter in poor urban areas.

What's new is that problems are no longer confined to poor, urban neighborhoods — they're impacting everyone.

As he embarked on his second five - year term as China's President last week, Xi Jinping pledged to «Make the Skies Blue Again»: a riff on President Trump's «#MAGA» mantra that nodded to China's acute urban pollution problem.

Problem is, land - use restrictions are usually enacted for valid reasons such as protecting the environment, reducing urban sprawl and preserving agricultural land.

Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.

The union says it also has problems with what it calls a two - tier pay scale for rural and urban mail carriers.

The company, based in Newport Beach, California, was having problems with some distribution abroad: Its makeup was sold by three British retailers, with 70 percent of sales at Boots, but Urban Decay CEO Tim Warner wasn't happy with how the drugstore was displaying the products.

Urban areas of the Lower Mainland, Southern Vancouver Island and the Okanagan are more shielded from problems in the United States and the rest of Canada.

The bottom stratum of the black community has compelling problems that can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, that will not yield to protest marches or court orders, and that force us to confront fundamental failures in lower - class black urban society.

It is as though those shaping the domestic agenda of the government do not see the explicitly racial character of this problem, as if they do not understand the historical experiences that link, symbolically and sociologically, the current urban underclass to our long, painful legacy of racial trauma.

As the economic recession and problems of urban decay collided with civil rights exhaustion and new immigration, however, some Jesus jokes emerged.

Given this confinement, they have had little direct access to the great social questions of the day... [They are] encouraging nostalgic attachments to former ways of life... and abandoning the victims of social dislocation in rapidly changing urban environments... They appear more interested in maintaining secure spaces which can sustain them in their attempts to cope with the daily problems of living.»

Our problem, he says, is not that we have become urbanized but that we have built our cities in such a way as to sacrifice our relation to nature for the sake of urban values; and the ironic result is that for most of their inhabitants our cities no longer provide even urban values.

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

Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

Here again, evangelical media could have a crucial role in focusing the thinking and concern of their adherents on issues like world hunger and the plight of our urban minorities — issues that correspond to the problems of slavery and child labor which 19th century evangelicals successfully attacked.