Sentences with phrase «urban challenges in»

The Challenge City sets up local climate change challenge reflecting their local urban challenges in areas including: Urban Planning, Infrastructure, Housing, Water Use, Waste Removal, City Satellite Data and more Participants come with their ideas & develop them during... Read More

Instead, I'm going to the DARPA Urban Challenge in Victorville, California.

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They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

Erin True, co-owner of Urban Wood Goods in Gurnee, Ill., says she needed to see certain shipping challenges for herself.

One of the most pressing immigration challenges is the fact that 76 % of all newcomers have chosen to settle in the three major urban centres: Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

Many of the challenges that urban regions face spill over the boundaries of municipal governments — none more so than in the current Ontario debate over public transit.

Our new white paper explores urban analytics for digital cities with an estimated more than 50 % of the worlds population now living in cities, many city leaders are turning to «Smart Cities» as the solution for their urbanization challenges.

Roshe Wong, business development manager at Sky Greens, told us about how they have overcome the challenges in the smart farming opportunity space and on what the future of urban vertical farming looks like to him.

With NDP support concentrated in urban areas of the province, the PCs also face a major challenge from Brian Jean «s Wildrose Party in rural Alberta.

About MaRS Discovery District MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs supporting a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

A critical challenge of liberation theology is its rooting in local praxis and base communities, and here the main British version has been a multifaceted urban theology which has built on a tradition of pastoral, political and community - building activity in cities.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

And we see the COACH taking on the challenge of rebuidling an urban Philly team, and he's confident, of course, that is talent and virtue will succeed in their transformative ways once again.

Church workers in the South face the complex challenge of empowering peasants in the countryside or urban barrio dwellers to host an encounter in a way that allows them to feel equal to the northerners.

The emergence in recent years of a new media environment which overarches the urban - technological one takes that hermeneutical challenge a step further.

In his book The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox in 1965 presented a significant challenge to Western theological thought by highlighting the difference which existed between the natural agricultural environment in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern lifIn his book The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox in 1965 presented a significant challenge to Western theological thought by highlighting the difference which existed between the natural agricultural environment in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern lifin 1965 presented a significant challenge to Western theological thought by highlighting the difference which existed between the natural agricultural environment in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern lifin which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern life.

The challenges of a number of urban churches in Chicago are outlined featuring diverse intellectual energy required in a changing city.

Two big challenges in urban farming today are securing financing and educating cities on ways to nurture urban agriculture in their communities, Herbert says.

In December 2007, the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board dismissed with prejudice, the Petition for Cancellation of Smokey Chipotle where Kraft Foods conspired with Urban Accents, Inc. (listed below) in a failed challenge by alleging Smokey Chipotle is a generic phrase for a chile chipotle (a variety of processed chile, i.e., a spice); heretofore the word «chipotle» was already disclaimed as a condition of registration at the U.S. Trademark office in 199In December 2007, the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board dismissed with prejudice, the Petition for Cancellation of Smokey Chipotle where Kraft Foods conspired with Urban Accents, Inc. (listed below) in a failed challenge by alleging Smokey Chipotle is a generic phrase for a chile chipotle (a variety of processed chile, i.e., a spice); heretofore the word «chipotle» was already disclaimed as a condition of registration at the U.S. Trademark office in 199in a failed challenge by alleging Smokey Chipotle is a generic phrase for a chile chipotle (a variety of processed chile, i.e., a spice); heretofore the word «chipotle» was already disclaimed as a condition of registration at the U.S. Trademark office in 199in 1995.

In poor urban areas, limited access to land for the production of food is another challenge.

There is a growing concern that the fast expanding and globalized competitive world market is causing decline in grower returns and expansion of urban development and environmental regulations causing production cost increases and challenging the viability and sustainability of producing these crops.

Being a mom - to - be in the city is certainly not without its challenges — not the least of which is finding a place to put all that cool urban baby gear that is slowly accumulating in my NY - sized apartment.

I don't have kids, but one of my best friends teaches developmentally challenged, urban preschool kids, and I go read to his kids once in a while.

I don't love it for everyday use because of it's a challenge in urban environments.

On the basis that the context of practice in BC would be important in relation to the challenges that midwives would experience and the strategies that they would use, midwives with at least 5 years» experience as a midwife in BC were selected from a list of registered midwives, to reflect possible variations in experiences between midwives working in urban and rural locations across BC (lower mainland, Vancouver Island, the interior and Northern BC), and between those working as solo, midwifery group and collaborative practitioners (midwives and family doctors sharing a caseload).

But mothers in urban, poor and minority areas often face unique challenges as well: the sheer logistics of finding time to breastfeed, perhaps while juggling single motherhood and working a service job where it's difficult to find a private, clean place to use a breastpump, for example.

«While I expect this fight to continue, it is my hope the administration can put this destructive chapter behind them and focus on solving our country's important issues, including funding infrastructure, creating jobs for working - class Americans, and developing a meaningful urban agenda to tackle the serious challenges facing America's cities,» said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner in a statement.

Particularly in urban areas, a more culturally diverse population may act as drivers of challenges to old ways of doing things and lead to a more pro-active political culture that seeks to express its own ambitions and agendas and thus challenge — even resist — conventional top - down flows of power, both institutionally and discursively.

Such, in effect, triple hierarchisation — where territory, institutional power structures and discourse of identity and belonging (communality) sit in parallel hierarchical arrangements — is now being challenged by a growing urban / metropolitan voice stepping out of the seemingly homogenous sonority of a national discursive «backcloth».

«Up until this moment, it is not about the roofing materials alone which are unsuitable but also our buildings both in rural and urban areas have become a serious challenge.

On the Democratic side, a number of candidates have already entered the race to challenge the Republican councilman, including Paul Graziano, an activist and urban planning consultant; Austin Shafran, a former member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration; Paul Vallone, an attorney, who ran for the seat back in 2009; and former state Assemblyman John Duane.

He grew up in Mount Vernon, a city that faces many of the economic and governmental struggles that challenge urban areas throughout the state, and has since moved to Rye, one of the wealthiest cities in the country.

State Assemblywoman Inez Dickens and Arva Rice, the president of the New York Urban League, sit down with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills to talk about economic challenges facing African - Americans in New YorIn Focus Host Cheryl Wills to talk about economic challenges facing African - Americans in New Yorin New York.

Launching the report in Accra on Tuesday, Programme Leader for Sustainable Development, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone for the World Bank Ivo Imparato says although there is a platform for cities and investors to meet the challenge of urban resilience, it would take a significant amount of support.

During a conference in Saratoga Springs, state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia called on teacher educators across the state to train future teachers who can rise to the challenges inside struggling urban schools.

For her opponents to use her time as a National Urban Fellow, an honor for women and people of color in public service, as a warped rationale to challenge her civic engagement and right to serve in public office is shameful.»

Fuel duty's disproportionate impact on rural voters: «The Government understand the challenges faced by people in rural areas in relation to fuel costs, which those of us in city and urban areas perhaps do not face.

But some education specialists say that elected school boards in general pose problems for urban school districts with challenges related to poverty.

The Minister said this year's celebration seeks to provide a platform to take stock of contribution, achievements and success chalked by rural and urban women and also deliberate on their struggles and challenges in gender equality and women's empowerment.

The team's first Boss won DARPA's 2007 Urban Challenge, which pitted autonomous autos against one another in a race through simulated city traffic.

In November his team's self - piloted robot car beat out 11 competitors to win the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

The biggest challenge in urban settings is collecting and transporting all those sloshing liters of urine to the farmer's fields.

The Urban Challenge contest in a simulated suburb near Los Angeles shows that robot cars are nearly ready for the open road

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

Exhaustive contact tracing requires large numbers of staff, and is challenging both in dense urban areas and in remote regions that are difficult to reach.

Ocean sea levels and the pressing challenges of managing cities in an increasingly urban world can not meaningfully be studied except on the enormous scale that globalization allows.

It can be challenging to find a suitable habitat for bald eagles in a city, but the advantage of an urban reintroduction, he says, is that more people can enjoy the birds and be educated by their presence.

Martin Schreibman, a biologist at Brooklyn College in New York City and an advocate for urban aquaculture, concedes that aquaponics poses myriad challenges but, like Rakocy, he sees the tank as half full.

Since 2002, Denmark's challenge in dealing with extreme rain events has meant that many urban areas have been immersed in water following heavy rainfall.

The fate of older sprawling suburbs with their big houses may present planners with significant challenges if housing demand shifts to smaller homes in urban areas in the way that Nelson envisions.