Sentences with phrase «urban blight into»
Holt transforms a site of urban blight into an aesthetically stimulating spot that addresses environmental issues.
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In the time it takes the Corvette to hit second gear, broad mansions are replaced by the urban - porn blight and return - to - prairie landscape that have become Detroit's signature curse — so surreal that it's like being wrenched into a new dream in Inception.
Examples include Patio Taller, a performance space and grass - roots educational center in the industrial zone of San Antón that organizes a «theater of the oppressed» to address issues affecting their community; the collective transformation of the hillside town of El Cerro, Naranjito into a living mural that is socially and artistically charged; intergenerational workshops known as Escuelas Oficios (Trade Schools) that are recuperating artisanal traditions threatened by modernization and colonialism, such as weaving, lace making, and basketry; the revitalization of blighted properties and neighborhoods through participatory urban design of community centers, public parks, urban gardens, and food cooperatives; and the aesthetic and physical reclaiming of public space through movement by artist Noemí Segarra.
On his own block on the South Side of Chicago, Gates has engineered a miniature urban utopia, turning the once - blighted buildings that surround him into artist residencies, a library and even a cinema house that shows works by aspiring filmmakers from the neighborhood.
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.
In Los Angeles, for example, land for industrial developments — many of which are changing from industrial use to residential mixed - use — have averaged approximately $ 23 per sq. ft. at the beginning of 2014 and by year «s end, asking prices were as high as $ 32 per sq. ft.. There has been and continues to be keen competition for every developable site, with the urban core expanding into previously blighted areas.