Sentences with phrase «urban form at»

«Lots of singles, lots of elderly, fewer kids — what this does really is free people in their location decisions to a certain extent if they're not bound by school and safety aspects,» says Armando Carbonell, chair of the department of planning and urban form at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Not exact matches

The interface takes on the three - dimensional form of whatever you are looking at, be it a pie chart or an urban landscape — like a high - tech raised - relief map.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

In addition, although most so - called development aid in the past has been at best ambiguous in its effects, there are forms of aid that the United States could offer to rural and urban communities in Mexico that would be genuinely supportive.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Marek Urban and colleagues at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg were inspired to create their self - healing plastic by signs of healing in nature such as newly formed tree bark.

Another particulate, secondary sulfates (formed in the atmosphere from emissions, such as those from coal - fired power plants), had the highest concentration (between 30 and 44 percent) of all pollutants at urban and rural sites, with readings being mostly uniform across locations.

Where possible and in urban areas, the council would look to provide primary schools of at least two forms of entry (i.e. 60 places in each year group), and at least six forms of entry secondary schools offering 180 places per year group.

«You get one shot and that's it, because once that charter is formed, that charter dictates how it will operate,» John Rogers, associate professor of urban schooling at UCLA, told NBC's Education Nation.

The # 1m maths project, a form of educational urban regeneration, is aimed at attracting bright young maths graduates to a city struggling with industrial decline and academic underachievement.

The schools have also formed partnerships with community groups and businesses to offer hands - on learning experiences, like building an oyster bed in New York Harbor (at the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School on Governors Island) and participating in a moot court case at Cravath Swaine & Moore (at the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in Downtown Brooklyn).

At the core of his work is an exploration of modernist design and the public realm - his installations recall archetypal 20th century landscapes, such as playgrounds, urban parks, the abandoned garden and the corporate lobby as well as modernist interior motifs and familiar objects like fireplaces and lamps presented in entirely new forms.

Living as Form provides a broad look at a vast array of socially engaged practices that appear with increasing regularity in fields ranging from theater to activism, and urban planning to visual art.

Empathy and awe at their beauty originally attracted Sally to the birds but consideration for their future in the urban environment has been explored, particularly in the sculptures, in the exhibition where it seems as though a contemporary Charles Darwin has proposed their future form where bird, car and computer parts have been brought together.

Camouflaged within the guise of history and imitating (at least in appearance) architectural forms or urban lifestyles from a certain era, Bronstein reinvents the past with great subtlety, highlighting the uncertainty of its construction and revealing its multi-layer composition.

Select group exhibitions and biennials featuring their work include Everything you are I am not: Latin American contemporary art from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Apreensões e Objetos do Desejo: obras doadas pela Receita Federal ao MNBA, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro (2015); Giants at the Vancouver Biennale (2014); Gigantes por su propria naturaleza, Institut Valéncia d'Art Modern, Valéncia, Spain (2011); Art in the Streets, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011); Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2010); and When Lives Become Form: Creative Power from Brazil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2008).

Painted at the apex of her New York career before she expatriated to France in 1959, Untitled is an ebullient example of the artist's marriage of natural forms, abstract gestures, and urban movement.

GLENN LONEY»S JANUARY, 2015 RAMBLES At The Asia Society: TAKAHIRO IWASKAI: In Focus, BUDDHIST ART OF MYANMAR, At The Brooklyn Museum of Art: KEHIND WILEY: A New Republic, At The CUNY Grad Center's James Gallery: SPECTERS OF COMMUNISM: Contemporary Russian Art, At The Frick Collection: COYPEL»S DON QUIXOTE TAPESTRIES: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth Century France, At The Galerie St Etienne: ALTERNATE HISTORIES: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Galerie St Etienne, At The Grolier Club: ALDUS MANUTIUS: A Legacy More Lasting Than Bronze, LITERATURE OF THE LIBERATION: The French Experience in Print — 1944 46, At LCLPA — The Lincoln Center Library for The Performing Arts» Vincent Astor Gallery: BROADWAY REVEALED: Behind the Theatre Curtain, At MMA — The Metropolitan Museum of Art: CAPTAIN LINNAEUS TRIPE: Photographer of India & Burma — 1832 1860, At The MLM — The Morgan Library & Museum: The World Monuments Fund 2015 Paul Mellon Lecture, RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ROME: The Art of Urban Form, LINCOLN SPEAKS: Words That Transformed a Nation, PIRANESI & THE TEMPLES OF PAESTUM: Drawings from Sir John Soane's Museum, HEBREW ILLUMINATION FOR OUR TIME: The Art of Barbara Wolff, EMBRACING MODERNISM: Ten Years of Drawing Acquisitions, At MCNY — The Museum of the City of New York: EVERYTHING IS DESIGN: The Work of Paul Rand, SAVING PLACE: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks, At The Park Avenue Armory: WAS — The Annual Winter Antiques Show: A Benefit for the East Side House Settlement.

I do see energetic gesture, and a powerful battle between form and exploded form that conjures a strong rhythmic flow — people read things differently — but then you talk about how perhaps it's more violent to have some event happen at your home in Vermont as opposed to in the city, and I wonder if there's an urban - rural tension in you and how that plays out in your work?

His immaculately composed photographs explore the conjunction of nature and civilization, created in his work through a study of the forms and layout of the urban environment, and with a close look at the materials that comprise it, both in their source and end use.

A couple of weeks ago opened A Major Minority, an amazing group show featuring the work of contemporary urban artists from around the world curated by graffiti artist and curator Poesia, who is also the editor of Graffuturism.com and the cultural instigator at the center of the growing interest in abstract, progressive and hybrid Graffiti art forms.

split / fountain (S / F), merges at least 3 forms of production and dissemination ---- art, design, and print ---- through its operation as a design studio, project space, bookshop, curatorial office, niche publishing house and pocket - scaled laboratory for urban aesthetics and collaborative thinking.

A form of urban recycling, where the pieces originate from printed matter found at coffee shops and newspaper stands, his work is described as a commentary on our oversaturated media diets.

These include permanent and temporary projects that refer specifically to particular buildings, or which emerge at sites in urban space in the form of designs for buses and posters.

During his time at Guttenberg Arts, Gabriel experimented with collages, drawings, lithographs and ceramics resulting in numerous visual hybrids derived from contrasting urban horticultural elements and imagined natural forms.

Distinct in their styles and forms of expression, three Czech artists are the center of attention at Urban Spree Gallery this May, as part of the show No More Crew: Jan Kaláb, Pasta Oner and Michal Škapa.

PLANE — SITE is a global agency working at the interface of urban form, cultural space, and social life.

At Bushwick Open Studios, James Cornish (a Detroit native) sneered at the fact that media attention — in the form of a «Cosmopolitan article,» specifically — was spotlighting «artists who had just moved here and started urban farms.&raquAt Bushwick Open Studios, James Cornish (a Detroit native) sneered at the fact that media attention — in the form of a «Cosmopolitan article,» specifically — was spotlighting «artists who had just moved here and started urban farms.&raquat the fact that media attention — in the form of a «Cosmopolitan article,» specifically — was spotlighting «artists who had just moved here and started urban farms.»

Looking at the works created for this show by Fountain House Gallery artists immediately conjures the urban experience; from the rivet - like repetition of Julio Mendoza's circular collage forms to Ariella Kadosh's solitary subway map lines set against a void of negative space, the images convey the shared and insular zone we New Yorkers inhabit at the same moment.

On the other hand he never felt entirely at home with the ideals of the Barbizon School, the members of which saw Romantic idealization of the countrysite as a form of escapism from urban banality, and he remained more faithful to the French Classical tradition than to the English or Dutch schools.

Hewitt is a lean, permanently tanned 59, and he's an enthusiastic cycling cargo delivery employee at B - Line, the «sustainable urban delivery» company that formed in Portland three years ago in February 2009.

As the graph reappeared in the above updated form in the new Royal Society climate updates report we thought we should take another good look at it, and this time asked Mark Urban if during the busy end of the academic semester he could spare some time to personally help us better understand what it says and what it means.

Finally, RUAF undertakes awareness - raising and advice on short food chains, more commercial forms of urban agriculture and associated value - adding enterprises by supporting studies and international expert panels, such as the Assistance to the World Bank for the Expert seminar on peri-urban horticulture and the Expert consultation on economic impact of urban agriculture at ODI.

Speed looks at the speed of urban change, brought on by immigration and speculative commercial development and how these factors are being managed in Shanghai, Istanbul, London, Cairo and L.A. Form provides an overview of the different urban forms of five cities: Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Mumbai and Tokyo.

Seen over at Tech Times, this module is conceived as part of a «plug - in ecology» that also doubles as a «living» cabin that people can enter, the Urban Farm Pod features a computer - designed framework in the form of a rotegrity sphere.

Steve Winkelman (2007), Travel Demand and Urban Form: Lessons and Visions, Asilomar Conference on Transportation and Climate Policy August 22, 2007; at www.its.ucdavis.edu/events/outreachevents/asilomar2007/presentations/Day%201%20Session%203/Winkelman%20Intro%20to%20Asilomar%20Demand%20Session%20(8.22.07).pdf.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

«More and more cities and counties are looking at inclusionary housing in one form or another to deal with the incredibly high rent,» says Maya Brennan, vice president for the Urban Land Institute's Terwilliger Center for Housing.

Bethany found the dress form at Urban Outfitters and the 1960s glass lighting fixture at 1stdibs.com.