Sentences with phrase «urban center of the city»

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But there's more to this city than its looks, including a dynamic urban center chock - full of world - class art, food, and design.

But despite the growth in number of cities and city populations, Hinman warns that many of these urban centers may not be ready to accommodate a burgeoning population.

Attempts by Jews to move their people out of the urban centers and into colonies on the land have not been successful save in the neighborhood of big cities or in special circumstances.

From a small trading post in the 15th century to a metropolitan area with a population of over 14 million, this massive city dwarfs Thailand's other urban centers.

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.

After 1302 he never again entered his native city, at that time one of the most wealthy, beautiful, and important urban centers in the Western world.

The action training center in a Pacific Northwest city sponsored a series of courses on strategies for urban social action.

The Industrial Revolution brought new urban centers and the rapid growth of existing cities.

The city pioneered the «centers concept» in modern urban planning, and when Reyner Banham wrote his classic study of LA's social - architectural geography, he famously relegated downtown to a brief afterthought «note» at the end of the book.

Groups take a different field trip every day of the week to visit the Bay Area's top museums, science centers, parks, galleries, and various other urban attractions and city centers.

Urban dwellers were city dwellers and were associated with high rise buildings in downtown Manhattan or the center of London.

A new report published by the Center for an Urban Future finds that the record increase in tourism to New York City over the past two decades has spurred thousands of jobs in Queens and benefited thousands of additional residents who work in tourism More...

Key partners include: Greater Buffalo - Niagara Regional Transportation Council (GBNRTC), Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT); Erie County, Niagara County, City of Buffalo, City of Niagara Falls, Association of Erie County Governments, Niagara County Supervisors Association, University at Buffalo Regional Institute and Urban Design Project (UBRI / UDP), Daemen College Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement (CSCCE), VOICE Buffalo, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Buffalo (LISC), Western New York Environmental Alliance (WNYEA), Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, The John R. Oishei Foundation, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), Belmont Housing Resources for WNY, Inc. (Belmont), Buffalo Niagara Partnership (BNP), Empire State Development, New York State Department of State, Division of Smart Growth, Niagara County Department of Social Services, and Niagara Falls Housing Authority.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

At 2 p.m., NYC Council members, inmate advocates and former guards and inmates from the city's Rikers Island Correctional Facility discuss proposals for overhauling treatment of inmates at the jail; Urban Justice Center, 16th floor, 123 William St., Manhattan.

The Center for Urban Research at CUNY has also published new online maps showcasing New York City voting patterns and demographics, in partnership with the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Center for Community and Ethnic Media.

New York City officials want to make sure that a business that caught fire last week under a critical stretch of the Metro - North Railroad tracks in Harlem doesn't store flammable gas and liquids, seeking to place such conditions on an amended lease with the Urban Garden Center.

At 3 p.m., community activist Jamaal Bailey, Kings County DA Kenneth Thompson and urban farmer Karen Washington will be honored by Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr. during an annual event marking the observance of «Black History Month»; Dreiser Loop Community Center, Co-op City, 177 Dreiser Loop, the Bronx.

At 10 a.m., AARP, the Asian American Federation, Hispanic Federation, NAACP and Urban League join Tony Award - winning actress Priscilla Lopez, Senator Jesse Hamilton and Assembly Members Marcos Crespo and Yuh - Line Niou for launch of policy solutions agenda to address disparities in health, economic security and livability that are hurting New York state's communities of color; City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

The new initiative is consistent with several of the recommendations from Creative New York, the Center for an Urban Future's recent report on the city's arts economy.

He won most of the state's urban centers: New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany.

A panel consisting of former Assemblyman Michael Benjamin (D - Bronx), student Betty Mahmud of the New York City Urban Debate League and Terryl Demendonca of the Misunderstood Youth Center argued that corrupt politicians come and are prosecuted in all colors and ethnicities.

At 7:30 p.m., the Manhattan Young Democrats, New York State Young Democrats Caucus of Color, New York State Young Democrats and The City College of New York's Urban Mentoring and Achievement Network host a panel discussion on race and privilege, The City College of New York, North Academic Center Room 1/201, 160 Amsterdam Ave., Manhattan.

From 6 to 8 p.m. at Fordham Law School, The Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center and the Women's City Club of New York will host «This Bridge Called My Back: Women of Color and the Fight for Economic Security», on «how gender intersects with economic and racial inequality in New York City.»

At 8 a.m. Tuesday, the Center for an Urban Future will hold a «policy symposium on the future of middle income jobs in New York City.»

On Friday, attorneys for the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center fired off a letter to City Planning Director Marisa Lago.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

The Poverty Committee is comrpised of Rev. Kinzer M. Pointer (Committee Chair) of Agape Fellowship Baptist Church; Frank Cerny, PhD., Executive Director of the Rural Outreach Center; Anna Falicov, Esq., City of Buffalo; Dr. Myron Glick of the Jericho Road Community Health Center; Yvonne S. Minor - Ragan, PhD., YMRagan Consulting, LLC; Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, PhD., Center for Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo; and Marlies A. Wesolowski, Executive Director of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center.

«It's really hard to think of another place in New York City that has fallen so short of its potential for economic development,» Jonathan Bowles, director of the Center for an Urban Future, told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.

John Mollenkopf, director of the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York, said REBNY is banking on the «investment theory» of political campaigning.

NEW YORK, NY (04/04/2012)(readMedia)-- Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn) came together on the steps of City Hall Wednesday with partners from Community Voices Heard, the Participatory Budgeting Project, and the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project and dozens of local organizations to declare the results of the groundbreaking participatory budgeting vote held last week.

Department of City Planning Director and City Planning Commission Chair Carl Weisbrod is stepping down to chair the Trust for Governors Island, and Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been will return to her previous job teaching at New York University and directing NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.

But the biggest finding was that those who lived closer to the city center or the main highway had better access to water deliveries than those in more remote areas — because of distance and transportation issues — but still less than their urban counterparts.

«Some people know that the conditions on the ground are so harsh that their families are not going to be able to stay,» said Edwin Meléndez, a professor of urban affairs and planning at Hunter College in New York City and director of the school's Center for Puerto Rican Studies.

On the other hand, they say the city could grow even more resilient due to the ongoing efforts to reduce the urban heat island effect — for instance through programs to install reflective roofs and plant trees, as well as to protect vulnerable populations through heat warning systems and the availability of cooling centers.

China in particular stands out because of its sudden role as the world's factory, its enormous population, and the mass migration of that population to urban centers; 350 million people, equivalent to the entire U.S. population, will be moving to its cities over the next 10 years.

The researchers homed in on the city not only because it is one of our planet's brightest urban centers but also because Turner — a self - described Japanophile — happened to be there at the time.

The average carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, population - dense urban cities is about 50 percent below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to twice the average: a factor of four difference between lowest and highest locations.

Indeed, the toilet of the future may be needed most by poor communities swelling on the edges of the world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural poor.

Led by Charlie Catlett, work done by the Computation Institute's Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) has fostered partnerships with industry, the city of Chicago, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In each of the major urban centers the story is the same: the better - off white families are moving out of the central cities into the suburbs; the ranks of the poor who remain are being swelled by Negroes from the South.

Physicist Winkless offers an easy - reading crash course on the engineering and day - to - day operations of our urban centers, and previews what the cities of the future might be like.

«I would have encouraged someone doing this type of study to look for indicators of social cohesion and connections — for institutions like churches,» whose members, for example, might have social contacts who can shelter them in emergencies, explains Jason Corburn, who directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development and the Center for Global Healthy Cities at the University of California, Berkeley.

The team tested how parameters such as the flow of goods to and from relief centers evolved in two different model networks: a grid lattice common in cities and a «scale - free» road network that represents a mix of urban hubs and rural spokes.

More than half the world population now lives in cities, many migrating to urban centers from rural hinterlands, a trend that shows no sign of abating.

June 29, 2017 UChicago Medicine announces South Side Pediatric Asthma Center Recognizing that asthma affects children on Chicago's South Side more than most other communities in the city, the University of Chicago Medicine's Urban Health Initiative and the Department of Pediatrics will lead a collaboration of health providers to develop the South Side Pediatric Asthma Center.

Cleveland is an all - American city that offers both the vibrancy of an urban center and the welcoming appeal of a smaller town.

Washington, DC About Blog City Parks Blog is a joint effort of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and the City Parks Alliance to chronicle the news and issues of the urban park movement.

«The Hangman» centers on decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Pacino) who partners with criminal profiler Will Ruiney (Karl Urban) to catch one of the city's notoriously vicious serial killers, who is playing a twisted version of murder using the child's game... Hangman, while journalist Christi Davies (Brittany Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives.