Sentences with phrase «urban city issues»

In Australia they have a term for neighborhoods like Candler Park, East Lake, Kirkwood — they're «city suburbs,» as opposed to the Western suburbs, and have urban city issues as well as suburban issues.

Not exact matches

But while we certainly haven't solved every issue facing urban residents, there is an urgency and energy toward improving economic opportunity in cities that is lacking in the discussion about rural communities.

There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arcity schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arCity of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.

While I believe there is already great material for men out there, as I surveyed the Bible and the culture of manhood (cross-ethnically), musical art, media, movies, magazines, the state of the church, urban dwellings, global cities, and the political climate of our country on gender, I continued to find the issue of manhood needing to be engaged.

Churches increasingly see missions in the streets of American cities; segments of church membership stirring up controversy; urban congregations moving to the suburbs; such issues as birth control, draft resistance, rebellion.

Somehow I doubt the experience as mayor in a new suburb in the west would really qualify for dealing with urban issues that come with millions of people in cities now aging into centuries.

I had always been interested in the issue of urban poverty — when you live in New York City, it's impossible to ignore — but it looked like one of those social problems without a real solution.

«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.

His research focuses on understanding distressed urban neighborhoods, the redevelopment of shrinking cities, as well as issues of social isolation, racial justice and class facing people of color.

Our city has long struggled on the federal terrain — urban issues just aren't sexy to Republican congressmen from the Ozarks — but with Mr. Schumer as one of the most powerful elected officials in the country, we're bound to do a little bit better.

Gov. Cuomo stuffed a $ 1.5 million line item into his election - year budget to create a new «School of Urban and Labor Studies» at the City University of New York that will offer more courses to union workers and other students wanting to learn about labor issues.

Just last week, the mayor spent three days in Salt Lake City at a symposium on urban issues.

Engineering difficulties because of the terrain of New York State and the unique issues of New York City brought on by urban crowding have had to be overcome since the state was young.

«I am waiting to finish making contact with important inner city neighborhood and church leaders to build on my historical understanding of worsening urban problems that will be important issues in this campaign,» Guy said today.

Panelists include: George Bliss, biker and owner of Hudson Urban Bicycles (HUB0 and an advocate for safer bikes; Steve Vaccaro, biker and lawyer dealing with the legal aspects of bike - riding in the city; Caroline Samponaro of Transportation Alternatives and the Bike Share Program; Council Speaker Christine Quinn's office with pending legislation dealing with electric bikes and other relevant issues.

Syracuse City School District Superintendent Sharon Contreras says that can be a big issue, especially in an urban district like Syracuse.

Mahoney, after all, was a former city councilor who was sympathetic to urban issues.

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.

«We are already struggling with the number of cars we have in the streets of our cities; congestion, air pollution, road safety issues, health impacts from people driving all the time,» said Luc Nadal, technical director for urban development at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

Celebrating cities from Lagos, Nigeria to New York City, this month's issue highlights how cities are smarter, greener, and better urban areas, providing some of the solutions for the world's biggest challenges.

RMIT's Professor Ralph Horne has been appointed new Director of the Cities Programme, bringing international expertise and leadership in sustainability and urban development issues.

This issue requires carefully constructed cost - effectiveness studies carried out in the environments where the interventions will be implemented; these are likely to differ between cities in the United States and in other countries and between rural and urban areas.»

But as this special issue on cities makes clear, the gathering of inventive humans into this urban setting will likely help spur advances.

The URBACT Blog is a platform for sharing ideas on current urban issues and innovative solutions for cities in Europe and in the world.

There's Lavalife's «Click Magazine», chock full of articles on dating - related issues that are actually useful and frequently irreverently funny, Web horoscopes, member blogs, and urban city guides for daters.

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 fact is that reforming urban schools is an issue of social justice: there are too many children in cities across the U.S. who are denied the opportunity to have a high - quality education, and these inequities run strongly along lines of race and class.

After becoming a successful lawyer, I felt a need to give something back to help advance the education of inner - city schoolchildren and address urban education issues.

Despite progress on these issues, student achievement on the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) declined between 2011 and 2015, and remained stubbornly low relative to that of other large cities (Figure 2).

Tailored to the new AQA Geography GCSE specification - Unit 2: Urban Issues and Challenges Topic on a page - the whole of the UK city case study for revision

Five nationally recognized leaders in education have agreed to serve on a new commission to advise New York City Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones on urban - education issues, the city board of education has announCity Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones on urban - education issues, the city board of education has announcity board of education has announced.

NEW YORK CITY The fall issue of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's Voices in Urban Education is chock - full of powerful essays reflecting on disparities in school discipline and highlighting efforts to reform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and Chicago.

Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women's Studies, American Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY, closed out the day with an engaging and pragmatic talk tying larger city - and society - wide systemic issues of educational equity to transfer schools and educators specifically.

Inner - city urban environments pose special challenges to school systems and communities in how to best deal with the issues of upgrading and renovating school facilities.

The president discussed education issues with members of the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of urban school systems meeting this week in Washington.

Our city's educators and education advocates have worked tirelessly in years past to address the issues faced by our urban communities, yet teacher burn - out persists, and public schools stand vacant as teachers and families leave our city in droves.

The URBACT Blog is a platform for sharing ideas on current urban issues and innovative solutions for cities in Europe and in the world.

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.

We aim to be comprehensive in scope - covering topics related to urban issues in China as well as looking beyond the first tier metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai to discover the up - and - coming second and third tier cities.

Held over three days, the event will be the largest ever gathering of government officials, regional and international tourism authorities, environmental agencies, industry leaders, urban city planners, architects, developers, institutional investors and financiers, airlines and tour operators, green product suppliers, universities and academics to examine this issue.

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 URBACT Blog is a platform for sharing ideas on current urban issues and innovative solutions for cities in Europe and in the world.

Through a series of conversations with the city's leading artists and intellectuals, Maltzan explores such issues as real - estate speculation and future urban development, infrastructure, resources, site density, urban experience, political structure, commerce and community, attempting to transform our understanding of how each affects present - day Los Angeles.

Often taking as his starting point the urban environment and therefore architecture — particularly those of Havana and Madrid, the two cities where the artist both lives and works — Garaicoa documents city landscapes, creating works steeped in provocative commentary which reflect a frustration with social, economic and political issues.

Each cycle focuses on three cities around the world and comprises high - profile public conferences and residency programs that provide in - depth insight into cities through the lens of local experts and initiate new projects designed to tackle key urban issues.

Colab's core concern with the issue of gentrification will be used as a paradigm to understand how New York City, the urban context that surrounds the shows and their restaging, has drastically mutated in the past three decades, even though some issues have remained the same.

But of course shelter is a huge issue of contention, especially in large American urban centers, where real estate values tell of the harrowing disappearance of the poor and the middle and working classes from cities.

JISP 2016 is thematically based on the concepts of «rebirth» and city», highlighting the issues facing urban development today.

To a casual observer like myself it looks like things might have been a bit sloppy (weather station that is on a new parking lot, cities marked as rural when they are now urban) and that instead of trying to fix the issue people on here are trying to say that they are being persecuted.

[To a casual observer like myself it looks like things might have been a bit sloppy (weather station that is on a new parking lot, cities marked as rural when they are now urban) and that instead of trying to fix the issue...]