Sentences with phrase «urban environment changes»

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Given this confinement, they have had little direct access to the great social questions of the day... [They are] encouraging nostalgic attachments to former ways of life... and abandoning the victims of social dislocation in rapidly changing urban environments... They appear more interested in maintaining secure spaces which can sustain them in their attempts to cope with the daily problems of living.»

In order to examine neighborhood - level crime - causing effects of a casino in a localized urban environment, Johnson and Ratcliffe analyzed 96 months of crime incident data to determine the extent to which crime counts changed within the Fishtown neighborhood after the casino's opening.

The scope of her study, she explained, was how asthma changes among different groups of people between urban and rural environments.

Professor Horne is a leader in research and practice on urban issues, leading more than 100 industry - linked research projects on the built environment, urban sustainability and social change since 2005.

The researchers suggest that living in a rural or urban environment may change the intestinal microbiome, due to different exposures early in life, resulting in decreased or increased risk

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Urban future 2 - Supersized cities 3 - How cities began 4 - Urbanisation in Africa 5 - Favelas 6 - Urban change in the UK 7 - The future of cities ICT 8 - Introducing Bristol 9 - Social opportunities 10 - Bristol's economy 11 - Urbanisation and the environment 12 - Environmental challenges 13 - Social inequality 14 - New housing in Bristol 15 - The Temple Quarter Regeneration 16 - Rio De Janeiro 17 - Social challenges in Rio 18 - ICT economic challenges in Rio 19 - Improving Rio for the city's poorest

Recommended sequence: Year 7 Map Skills Rainforests Settlement Rivers UK, Weather and Climate Year 8 Coasts Extreme Environments Tourism Fragile Environments Year 9 The Gambia: Learning Through Enquiry Development Gap Energy Population UK in the 21st Century Year 10 Global Hazards Distinctive Landscapes Urban Futures Year 11 Changing Climate Sustaining Ecosystems Dynamic Development

Recommended sequence: Year 7 Map Skills Rainforests Settlement Rivers UK, Weather and Climate Year 8 Coasts Extreme Environments Tourism Natural Hazards Fragile Environments Year 9 The Gambia: Learning Through Enquiry Development Gap Energy Population The Challenge of Natural Hazards Year 10 The Living World Urban Issues and Challenges Physical Landscapes in the UK Year 11 The Challenge of Resource Management The Changing Economic World

Unit 2 Challenges In The Human Environment Case Studies Included: - Urban Issues and Challenges Topic - Mumbai (NEE Urban Area) and a depth study of London (HIC Urban Area) Changing Economic World - Nigeria and Royal Dutch Shell (NEE Country); Jamaica (Development through tourism); UK Sustainable Car Industry; South Oxfordshire and Milton (Contrasting Rural Areas).

They are working cats that need new situations due to excessive numbers, changing environments, urban sprawl and disgruntled neighbors.

I personally found the environment to be much more aesthetically appealing in The Following, with the lush verdant meadows filled with lackadaisically swaying chest high grass making a nice change from the grungy urban environment of the original game.

The environment may change from urban to rural between the campaigns, but your primary goal of surviving does not.

Drawn initially by the accidental beauty of the layered painted surfaces that cover up graffiti, I recognized them as powerful remnants of development resulting from constant negotiations in an ever - changing urban environment.

The exhibition features a diverse selection of 22 artists working in London and engaging with topical concerns; from the rapidly changing urban context, the environment, technology, gender and race to queer representation, human relations, activism and post-colonial histories.

Maltzan, Michael, No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond, essay «Home: Conversation with Catherine Opie,» published by the University of Southern California School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, in association with Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany, 2011, pp. 46 — 59 Wolfe, Ann M., ed., The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, published by Rizzoli, New York, in conjunction with the exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, 2011

Over the past few decades, the military has struggled to create an effective urban camouflage uniform because the environment is constantly changing.

The construction cranes symbolize the fascination the artists have for the continuously changing urban environment.

The artefacts created by Tith thus act as documents of the effects of the economic and social development in Cambodia on the private and urban spheres, on the individual and her environment, and formulate a visual poetics that evoke the possibility of change.

Curated by Frank Creber, Creative Director of the Bromley by Bow Centre, Conduit brings together artists who demonstrate in diverse ways their passion for their neighbourhoods and communities bringing creativity to their workplace, documenting the changing world around them or dreaming, lifting the gritty urban environment into a realm of beauty.

By exploring size and scale, high and low technology, the natural world and the urban environment, Rist invites her audience to question ways of seeing and experiencing art, and to constantly change their perspectives.

Environmental concerns juxtaposed against industry, urban blight, and the loss of the natural environment drive her practice, in addition to gentrification and the changing landscape of the Bronx, her home for many years.

Song Dong, a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installations, performance, photography and video has been involved in many solo and group exhibitions around the world, covering a range of themes and topics including his relationship with his family and their experience of living in modern China (the topic of his widely exhibited installation Waste Not), the transformation of China's urban environment and the impermanence of change.

Both Michel and Gabriel are fascinated by humanities position within the fast paced and ever changing urban environment of the contemporary city.

In Vitturi's process, photography in conceived as a space of transformation, where different disciplines merge together to represent the complexities of changing urban environments.

For this Tuesday Evenings presentation, Making Architecture in Celebration of People and Place, Bruder focuses on the opportunities and challenges in making architecture that is appropriate for both people and place, architecture that grows from and celebrates in a sustainable way the natural and urban environments that we all inhabit in this ever - changing world.

His style has changed many times over the years but his visibility within the urban environment hasn't.

For her second solo exhibition at the gallery, Beijing - based artist Guan Xiao (b. 1983 in Chongqing, China) looks at rapidly changing urban environments as they are transformed through the speed and influx of economic evelopment and technology.

Comas uses industrial materials such as household paint and cement to create paintings suggesting an ever - changing urban environment.

This edition focuses on urban areas and the environment, exploring how cities and climate change are affecting the way we live and how good public policies can improve prospects for future generations.

Climate change may also augment or intensify other stresses on vegetation encountered in urban environments, including increased atmospheric pollution, heat island effects, a highly variable water cycle, and frequent exposure to new pests and diseases.

Bambrick, H. J., A. G. Capon, G. B. Barnett, R. M. Beaty, and A. J. Burton, 2011: Climate change and health in the urban environment: Adaptation opportunities in Australian cities.

The reasons include a lack of relevant city policies and action plans; existence of regulations on urban planning and environment which have not been adjusted to manage climate change; slow response to climate disasters due to lack of capacity and resources; and lack of public awareness on climate variability and climate change - induced hazard mitigation.

As cities generate over 75 % of the world wealth, attracting more people and conducing to urban sprawl, infrastructure and planning are key to reaching greener cities in order to alleviate the effects of climate change and provide a clean environment to their citizens.

Socio (s): UNU, Technische Universität München, International Institute for Environment and Development, Climate change and Urban Vulnerability in Africa

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He does this by looking at whether windy days, with outside air mixed into the urban environment, shows a different change than calm days.

Using principles of social and environmental justice, ILFI seeks to counter climate change by pushing for an urban environment free of fossil fuels.

The centre's research falls into five broad categories: air quality and climate change; nature - society relations; sustainable consumption and production; managing natural resources; and urban environments and human health.

The MIT Senseable City Lab aims to investigate and anticipate how digital technologies are changing the way people live and interact in the urban environment.

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There are some examples in my book, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, about the needs and wants of diverse groups looking for different types of housing, and how a good number of us want a walkable urban environment.

The urban environment and where jobs are have changed.

«Autonomous vehicles will need primary legislation changes to operate on UK roads, the technology is in its infancy and untried and tested in busy urban environments, it ain't happening for many a year.

In conclusion, our findings demonstrated that in the clinical settings, both of the indoor exercise program in a gym and green exercise program in an outdoor green environment of an urban park can help to further improvement of all three categories of affective, cognitive and somatic symptoms of depression as an adjunct (or independent) treatment to the same degree, especially mediated by reducing the amount of perceived stress, but not through any changes in cognitive - behavioral coping strategies.

He is current WA Chair of WA Doctors for the Environment Australia and writes and lectures on environmental health issues, including urban health, biodiversity loss, air pollution and climate change.

Undertaking in - depth studies of one or more of climate change, urban environments, forests, land and marine resources

On our first episode of the «Real Insight» podcast series, host T.J. Doyle explores the growing rate of urban populations with an expert panel to get their insights on the changing urban environment.

Greg Lindsay, keynote speaker and renowned expert on urbanism, globalization and real estate development, addressed the changing urban environment that will affect commercial real estate in the future.

2) Demand for a specific location may also increase due to changes in a property's environment as a result of significant developments in surrounding areas or elsewhere within the urban area.