Street art has become an unshakable aspect of
the urban culture in countries around the globe.
Previously she has held project management and curatorial roles at Urbis, Centre for
Urban Culture in Manchester and International Design Festival, Berlin.
Photographer and professor of photography in Santiago, Chile, Vicuña looks at everyday
urban culture in Chile and other parts of Latin America, as well as Europe, where she lived during the Pinochet regime.
Informally known as the «Bowery School», it also included artists such as Nate Lowman, Aaron Young, Ryan McGinley, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Banks Violette, Dash Snow, Agathe Snow, Hanna Liden, Lizzie Bougatsos and Adam McEwen, who all in one way or another share an engagement with their city and with
urban culture in general.
While buying ready prepared food outside the home has been an intrinsic part of
urban culture in Europe from the earliest of days (as can be seen by the many thermopoliums in Pompeii), in the modern era, in general the upper classes, especially the women, would not have chosen to eat a meal outside of a private home - except in the direst circumstances, such as extended travel.
Barby Asante and Christine Eyene will be in conversation on the relation between music, cultural heritage and
urban cultures in their respective practices.
It will explore the «parallels between spiritual and
urban cultures in Saudi Arabia and Utah; and especially the symbolism of creativity that connects cities of pilgrimage in both places.»
Not exact matches
• Mass Appeal, a New York city media and content company focused on
urban culture, raised $ 6 million
in Series A funding.
Founded
in 2012,
Urban and his co-founders wanted to create a
culture that made employee growth — both
in terms of numbers and personal development — inextricably linked with the expansion of the business.
For those wondering how to maintain a high - performance
culture in a growing company,
Urban offered up five tips.
Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «
Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said
in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous
in a turbulent climate requires a
culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:
This global hub, also known as «Gateway of the Americas», has everything that EB - 5 investor might want besides a growing number of EB - 5 approved projects; largest concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations, rated Number 2
in Business Friendliness and Number 3
in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing
urban centers of the world
in commerce, finance,
culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.»
As Todd Brenneman argues
in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality
in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers
in the dominant Evangelical
culture, outside a few hip and
urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.
If we turn to the non-written elements of first - century
culture, and particularly those encountered
in the
urban environments of the eastern empire, the importance of imperial ideology
in the public
culture of its day becomes all the more visible.
Mother's Day struck a resonant chord
in the
culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and
urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic
in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.
Arthur E. Farnsley II directs research for the Project on Religion and
Urban Culture at the Polis Center at Indiana University - Purdue University
in Indianapolis.
But it is being replaced by «a highly differentiated and individuated
urban culture,» which is not described
in images at all and which completely drains the initial image of meaning.
And the «modalities» shift
in response to «highly differentiated and individuated
urban culture.»
He has even shared with the rural peasant class
in his denouncement against the Herodian
urban culture 84 that deprived the poor of their means of livelihood and marginalized them even as the
urban centers enjoyed the fruit of their labor.
The
culture of the «freedom to choose», channeled by the Internet, movies, television, music, fashion, slogans, publicity, education programmes, NGOs, seduces ever more young people
in all
cultures, mainly
in urban areas, but it manages to filter down to the local country areas.
If a successful
urban pastor tried to set up an
urban -
culture church
in a rural setting, they would fail miserably.
And
in fact, to be effective, I could argue that a rural pastor must care about the
culture more than an
urban pastor.
But this «channeling» assumes radically different shapes
in different
cultures, ranging from
urban to agrarian settings, ancient to modern families, polygamous to monogamous marriages and so forth.
A specialized,
urban - scientific
culture makes such combinations hard to believe
in.
One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given
in a rural and an
urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral
culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the
culture encountered
in the local church.
In cultured urban churches where a great deal is made of the beauty of the service, there is a constant danger lest beauty be made a substitute for both worship and righteousness.
But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great
urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity
in service to the next great
culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.
Out of these shared convictions and the
culture of building they nourished, the architects and patrons of these cities created
urban environments and landscapes that were not only extraordinarily beautiful but that also acted as theaters of memory and hope, places that simultaneously referred to and grounded citizens
in their origins, the common destiny for which they longed, and the virtues necessary for success
in their individual and collective journeys through life.
Amy of Real Food Whole Health Beth of Red and Honey Carol of Studio Botanica Carolyn of Real Food Carolyn Christy of Whole Foods on a Budget Colleen of Five Little Homesteaders Dina - Marie of
Cultured Palate Emily of The
Urban EcoLife Heather of The Homesteading Hippy Iris of De Voedzame Keuken (The Nutritious Kitchen) Jackie of Deductive Seasoning Jan of Healthy Notions Jennifer of Hybrid Rasta Mama Jill of Real Food Forager Jo of Nourishing Time Joe of Wellness Punks Joelle of jarOhoney Karen of ecokaren Karen of Nourish with Karen Karen of Sustainable Fitness Katie of Kitchen Stewardship Kris of Attainable Sustainable Kristen of Rethink Simple Kristine of Real Food Girl: Unmodified Lauren of Healing and Eating Laurie of Common Sense Homesteading Libby of eat.play.love... more Libby of Libby Louer Linda of The Organic Kitchen Lydia of Divine Health From The Inside Out Natalie of Honey, Ghee, & Me Pamela of Paleo Table Sandi of Sandi's Allergy Free Recipes Sarah of Real Food Outlaws Shannon of All Things Health Shanti of Life Made Full Shelley of A Harmony Healing Sjanett of Paleolland Stacy of A Delightful Home Stacy of Paleo Gone Sassy Starlene of GAPS Diet Journey Susan of Grow
In Grace Farm Susan of Learning and Yearning Suzanne of Strands of my Life Sylvie of Hollywood Homestead Tracy of Oh, The Things We'll Make!
While Andy Warhol's best - known work examines modern
urban life and consumer
culture, his interest
in nature was life - long.
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.
Her schedule can read like a map of multiculturalism
in New York: opening a 24 - hour center for L.G.B.T.Q. youth
in Queens, touring an
urban farm
in East Harlem, a Hispanic Heritage event at Gracie Mansion one night and a transgender theater performance another, opening a substance use clinic at the Gay Men's Health Crisis headquarters
in Manhattan, attending a reading of writer James Baldwin at a center for black
culture — all since late September.
Questions like these have remained unanswered, largely because research
in this area has focused almost exclusively on
urban and suburban children living
in majority -
culture communities.
Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up
in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt)
in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise
in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».
Examining the interplay between
urban development and water development
in Arizona, Kupel argues that the
culture that settlers brought with them from the humid Midwest and East proved more important than aridity, environmental sustainability, and differences
in ecological settings.
So say two of the world's most recognizable icons for luxury and
culture — the BMW Group and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation — which convened a gathering
in the lobby of the Guggenheim Museum here Friday to provide details about the city's forthcoming BMW Guggenheim Lab, part of a social science project that aims to solicit input directly from the streets on how to improve
urban living.
Did you know that, according to studies, rural Africans who eat diets high
in fiber, eliminate food waste
in one - third the time it takes people from
urban westernized
cultures.
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in culture, planning and strategies for the public
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Our
urban cycling magazine covers all aspects of cycling
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in the world; prefers design boutique hotels over hostels; likes travel photos and videos more than reading about it; is always looking for the hidden gems; and believes that exploring the local food
culture is just as important as sightseeing.
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