Sentences with phrase «urban blight»

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

Bristol has been beleaguered over the past two decades by urban blight and code violations.

We turn left onto Meadowview Road, just south of downtown, where streets are dotted with urban blight.

Most US citizens don't have the money and must travel distances to have the income necessary to support a home and a family unless you want to live in Urban Blight or unsafe public housing.

The result is 151 new and renovated affordable apartments in the South End community, transforming areas of urban blight into neighborhood opportunities.

«Could cutting urban blight reduce teen murders?

Sometimes, you see urban blight or suburban backyards, but most of the time it's brilliant fields, stunning sea shores, or majestic mountains.

He is now the city's police chief and says urban blight has been a huge factor in the city's crime.

Urban blight around Douglass took a toll on the school.

Silvercup renovated an existing 115,000 square warehouse on Locust Avenue into a production facility, which will create 400 production jobs, Diaz said the Bronx is now a symbol of urban renaissance, not urban blight and decay.

«If the state continues to press this bill, it's going to revert these buildings back to their old dilapidated condition and you're going to see more urban blight,» Satnick said.

McDonald spoke about some that came on quickly, like a devastating fire, and some that have been building for a long time, like urban blight.

«Our goal was to scientifically explore the connection between city environments and stress,» said the study's lead author, Eugenia C. South, MD, MHSP, a physician in the department of Emergency Medicine at Penn. «We used heart rate as a physiologic marker of acute stress, and the reduction we found suggests a biological link between urban blight reduction strategies like vacant lot greening and reductions in stress.»

It's an idea that takes hold sporadically, when industrialization depletes the chaotic energy from the screen, when scores of stooped stick figures lose their meager jobs, when urban blight changes the tone from primary colors to smoky browns and greys, and finally when animation gives over to live action footage of deforestation.

April 3, 2018 • The tongue - in - cheek ode to urban blight features Nick Lowe back in rockabilly mode, featuring Los Straitjackets.

Once home to a prosperous middle - class population, the area is now the scene of classic urban blight.

I was seized by the passion of education tracts by Jonathan Kozol and others; Kennedy was dead (a stunningly emotional time on the Harvard campus); and Johnson had placed education front and center on the national agenda, insisting that it was the surest and most direct way to end poverty, combat urban blight, and equalize opportunity in America.

Best known for urban blight and local corruption, Camden has an unemployment rate of 17 percent and 35 percent of its 80,000 inhabitants live below the poverty line.

The work is from the artist's Wall Series, which examines urban blight and human resistance, according to the gallery.

Raised highways are often condemned as urban blights that lead to localized social and economic poverty.

What emerged was a two - pronged initiative that involved numerous freeway construction projects to relieve downtown congestion along with extensive slum clearance programs to reverse urban blight.

For one, invoking its past — its use in removing urban blight can be a compelling argument.

Despite the relatively large number of employees working in downtown Detroit, the city continues to be afflicted by urban blight, surrounded by a swath of vacant neighborhoods.

Holt transforms a site of urban blight into an aesthetically stimulating spot that addresses environmental issues.

Often these lands are dotted with urban blight or are considered brownfields, which means they may have some level of contamination.

«This is not your normal story about urban blight,» the artist wryly notes.

At the heart of the issue was the phenomenon of people turning tenement housing into penny - rent «hotels» that promoted urban blight and extreme poverty.

Despite downtown having what the New York Times described as «a thriving youth culture» (and houses in the region recently selling for as little as $ 6,000), for many people the place comes freighted with unpleasant associations — unemployment, urban blight, bad weather and yes, even Eminem — that might not immediately appeal to a dynamic young person looking for a locale to call home.

These properties are often areas of urban blight, rural abandonment, or places that others are reluctant to live in.

Like so many other cities across the nation, Albany has had to deal with urban blight and aging infrastructure.

Four of these municipalities in the greater Capital Region are hoping the Center for Technology in Government can help them fight this urban blight and make their communities come alive again.

Often these lands are dotted with urban blight or are considered brownfields, which mean these lands may have some level of contamination.

Once referenced on Jeopardy! as a literal example of urban blight, a new housing development is being unveiled in Albany's downtrodden Sheridan Hollow.

In this op - ed Jennifer Hirsch argues that issuing driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants can help with economic development and provide additional revenue to help with economic struggles, such as flooding and urban blight.

Thus, higher heart rates at unexpected moments and because of urban blight, which can be ubiquitous in some city neighborhoods, can be inferred to be evidence of stress.

Garrone, who came to features from documentary, he brings a clear - eyed approach to the film and captures an atmosphere of destruction and waste in a landscape of urban blight and poverty.

What impresses most is the fact that there are no stars or lush landscapes — this is urban blight, pure and simple, with third - world characters struggling to rise in a 21st century India.

Don't Breathe (Sony Home Entertainment) takes place in Detroit, a city plagued by urban blight.

Over the last 40 - plus years, however, job loss, white flight, and urban blight have driven the population down some 80 percent — there are abandoned houses everywhere.

Mark Martin: Build UP stands for Build Urban Prosperity, a comprehensive, multi-sector solution to issues affecting the economically disadvantaged, such as poverty and urban blight.

Educators in Flint, Mich., have long taught students buffeted by the pressures of poverty and urban blight.

For example, some neighborhoods that have been affected by urban blight may be eligible for grants, or even low - interest personal loans, to make improvements to the property or to make repairs.

JPMorgan also is scheduled to get credit for demolishing foreclosed homes to reduce urban blight.

First installed by the artist in 1993 in a former firehouse on 141st Street, the piece conveyed both a sober perspective of what the neighborhood had endured — the crack epidemic, urban blight — and also hope for the future.

Held was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the urban blight of the East Bronx, the son of a poor Jewish family thrown on to welfare during the depression.

«I was reacting to the richness of the narratives there, the stories, the loss, the urban blight,» he says.

Environmental concerns juxtaposed against industry, urban blight, and the loss of the natural environment drive her practice, in addition to gentrification and the changing landscape of the Bronx, her home for many years.