Sentences with phrase «urban cool into»

Traditionally adorning London Underground and New York subway stations, metro brick tiles make it easy to bring some urban cool into your home.

Incorporate urban cool into your off - duty edit with this vintage - effect T - shirt.

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«The roofscapes of our cities are the last urban frontier — from 15 percent to 35 percent of the total land area — and the green roof industry can turn these wasted spaces into a force for cleaner air, cleaner water, energy savings, cooling, beauty and recreation,» he says.

«The direct benefit is shade which keeps the urban area cooler, the indirect benefit is transpiration of stormwater which turns hot air into cooler air.»

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

Once the down - and - out Lady Luck, this 629 - room hotel has been revived into an urban cool resort in the heart of the Downtown entertainment district.

• A detailed hot rod world set in a 3D urban landscape • 13 different episodes to complete • Lots of crazy characters to encounter • Ground - breaking physics: crash into your opponent's car to slow him down • Different gameplay modes: dodge traffic cones, jump off ramps, avoid walls and more... • Upgrade your vehicle's components and aesthetics to make it look even cooler

The logic is obvious: Green roofs can reduce the retention of heat in urban areas, help to cool down buildings and thereby lower their energy use, and even pull some carbon dioxide from the air and feed it back into plant growth.

To minimise the risks of heat stress that are most pronounced in large cities due to the urban heat - island effect in summer (Kalnay and Cai, 2003) urban planning should consider: reducing the heat island in summer, the heat load on buildings, cooling load and high night - time temperature, and taking climate change into account in planning new buildings and setting up new regulations on buildings and urban development.

In the paper this result is reached by taking also into account several possibilities including the fact that the volcano cooling is evidently overestimated in the GCMs, as we have seen above, and that part of the leftover warming from 1970 to 2000 could have still be due to other factors such as urban heat island and land use change.

That same transpiration of stormwater helped turn urban hot air into a cooler breeze that made the summer streets more welcoming.