Sentences with phrase «urban centers while»

That has not stopped wealthy donors and their political allies from pushing unaccountable charter growth in urban centers while stripping communities of a voice in their children's education.

It's a tale in which herders and nomads are streaming to urban centers while resources are being exploited without long - term environmental planning, and people, individually and as a society, have no choice but to adapt.

Charcoal is mostly used in urban centers while firewood is the predominant form of wood fuel used in rural areas.

It allows rich people to own single family homes in the middle of urban centers while poorer people can't find a place to rent.

Not exact matches

Keith Urban and Underwood dueted, while Harry Connick Jr. saluted a music center in New Orleans» Katrina battered - Ninth Ward by inviting a young student, Marley Fletcher, to join him on «It's a Wonderful World.»

While it is widely agreed that the causes for the morbidity of communities in urban centers are traceable to diverse factors, churches can not be quiescent in the face of them.

China: The Dragon in the Room Most of China's milk production occurs in 10 northern provinces, while two - thirds of milk is consumed in the country's southern urban centers.

This bill would reform state spending on infrastructure, directing agencies to prioritize investments in existing town centers, main streets, and urban areas while de-emphasizing development on the far - flung exurban edges.

• While he worked at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it doubled the amount of money it devoted to housing for those with HIV / AIDS and his staff urged gay organizations to apply for grants to open community centers.

While the focus of this research was on Chaco Canyon, the researchers found the conclusions for water management systems and kinship mobility relevant to modern urban centers built in arid environments anywhere and anytime in the world.

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.

«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.

In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

CUBE provides educational opportunities that engage urban school districts and district leaders, working through their state school boards associations, while addressing challenges in urban centers.

The iPad - like navigation screen is perched atop the center stack and will be a welcome companion while trekking through unfamiliar urban environments.

While large urban centers have often...

While large urban centers have often served as pockets for ethnic enclaves (think Chinatown) increasingly, ethnoburbs which host concentrations of ethnicities in American suburbs, are becoming more prevalent.

Located in the urban - rural periphery of Nairobi, the campus is easily accessible from the city center while being surrounded by small scale agriculture, away from the noise, pollution, and turbulence of the city (Upper Kabete Campus on Google Maps).

Since 2007, CAP has met the need for thousands of Bay Area youth to get access to overnight camping in the Presidio, while providing a gateway experience to explore the Golden Gate National Parks and public lands far beyond our urban center.

It would be criminal not to head to the seaside while you're here, as Perth is blessed with a number of urban beaches within easy reach of the city center.

Urban Trailblazers >> Crissy Field Center Students spend their paid internship learning about environmental issues through workshops, field trips, and service projects while gaining valuable skills in their «first job.»

Located in major urban centers, gateway cities and resort destinations, there are 19 Holiday Inn Express hotels in Latin America and the Caribbean while Holiday Inn has 24 hotels in the region.

While the exhibition's heart looks at the work of Chicanx artists in Los Angeles, it reveals extensive new research into the collaborative networks that connected these artists to one another and to artists from many different communities, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, and international urban centers, thus deepening and expanding narratives about the development of the Chicano Art Movement, performance art, and queer aesthetics and practices.

While you can almost always tack on a side excursion before or after an art fair, it can be more rewarding to plan a trip entirely around an urban center that has a strong arts scene all year long.

A few of the images are anchored at their bottom edge by urban landscapes — buildings, antennae, branches — while others are centered on the glare itself as it dissolves into abstraction.

The program centered around artists that are based in the Netherlands: while group shows like Black My Story (2003), The Urban Condition (2006), and Unknown Territory (2009) put their work in an international context, the series of solo shows of mid-career Dutch based artists highlighted their practice in their first museum overview in the Netherlands.

In this editorial, Steve E. Koonin, Undersecretary for Science in the Department of Energy during President Barack Obama's first term and current director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University, argued that while there is agreement that the climate is changing, there is no scientific agreement about the implications of climate change.

While not all of the needed investment will have adaptation benefits, any adaptation projects that also reduce emissions are especially attractive, and these seven projects show that, from urban centers to rural states in North America, and from tropical agriculture to tiny island nations, finding synergies between mitigation and adaptation isn't just possible, it is already happening.

Initiated in 2012 by the National Park Service National Capitol Region Urban Ecology Research Learning Alliance (UERLA) and George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication (4C), the internship program is designed to create opportunities for students of diverse academic and personal backgrounds to gain skills and experience in the synthesis, interpretation, and development of science communication products while increasing knowledge about climate change and its effects on parks.

While this makes for a much cleaner comparison between urban centers, it also ignores one of the fundamental tenets of sustainable development: adapting to the natural environment as it is.

my point was that the poor keep on choosing migration to urban centers, and it seems likely that that is going to keep on happening for quite a while yet.

Be that as it may, my point was that the poor keep on choosing migration to urban centers, and it seems likely that that is going to keep on happening for quite a while yet.

When listening to the headphones in the real world — in the office, on public transit, and while walking around urban centers — we loved the clarity and focus the noise - canceling brought to the overall sound profile, creating a perfectly blank canvas on which to paint sound, even in the noisiest of settings.

While some of us are lucky enough to work relatively close to where we live, with the increasing spread of suburban living and consolidation of business in major urban centers, commuting is taking up an increasing amount of U.S. workers» time.

For example, Station Square is more of an urban retail entertainment center, while Richmond is suited for a high - quality commercial retail center.

He estimates that nearly half of the new construction that occurred last year involved urban retail projects, while another dominant source of activity was the expansion of existing centers, phase twos or additional pad site development.

Untested products like entertainment centers and urban specialty centers face higher spreads and shorter terms, while A-quality and better malls at the higher - dollar end and neighborhood centers with expanded supermarkets at the lower - dollar end command the best deals.

While downtown Fort Lauderdale already established a nightlife centered around the Las Olas business and entertainment district, downtown Miami was slow on the uptake due in part to fierce nightlife competition from the neighboring urban playground South Beach (or SoBe to the locals) and nearby Coconut Grove.

While Sacramento suburbs were hit hard by the collapse of last decade's housing bubble, the building boom this time is centered downtown, capitalizing on a national trend as millennials and empty nesters move to urban cores.

While small centers can work in thriving urban areas, most experts recommend that a lifestyle center be at least 500,000 square feet and optimally, as large as 1 million square feet in size.

While Hines has always had a strong retail portfolio, in recent years it has also been purchasing retail power centers and investing in some of the largest mixed - use urban projects in the world, including the $ 950 million, 10 - acre CityCenterDC located in downtown Washington, D.C. Work started on the project in 2011.