Sentences with phrase «through urban renewal»

Neighborhood is going through urban renewal.

Alexander Marion, the mayor's press secretary, said contracting through the urban renewal agency «enabled us to hire a consultant in an expedient, efficient manner.»

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.

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With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

The actions of government» through zoning boards, urban renewal agencies, public housing authorities, school boards, etc.» inevitably contributed, or so the argument went, to residential segregation.)

Syracuse, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner has cut the payroll of the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency by nearly 20 percent in the past year, responding to criticism that the renewal agency has long been misused to hire city workers without going through civil service.

Their project was about urban renewal: how to revitalize the community by re-watering sections of the Erie Canal that once ran through the city center.

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.

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.

Perhaps influenced by the urban landscape moving through stages of upheaval, destruction, and renewal and rebuilding, Sosnowska has turned her attention to systems of modernization as seen through the lens of architecture and space, poking holes in the perceived certainty of these underlying structures and implied commands.

Located in Salford, Manchester, Southern Street comprised a row of Victorian terraced houses, whose tenants were displaced through a governmental urban renewal program.

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.

Combined with urban renewal and slum clearance programs, interstates destroyed and cut - off entire urban neighborhoods and facilitated suburban sprawl (itself subsidized through mortgage policies).