Sentences with phrase «urban issues»

So much of the popular material related to justice and poverty focuses exclusively on urban issues.

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.

This school year, the district will spend $ 104 million to deal with strictly urban issues.

I'm going to cover both, but if it comes down to the two in a certain moment, I will choose race and urban issues because of my audience.

For the past two years I've been blogging about education for Greater Greater Washington, a communal blog that focuses on urban issues in DC.

His work directly tackles the social and urban issues by painting with a bold colour palette and making strong gestures and marks.

She adds: «When I first started... they [fellow journalists] thought I was militant, because at that time you weren't really hearing a lot of people raising their hand asking about urban issues on a consistent basis.»

Urban agriculture contributes to a wide variety of urban issues and is increasingly integrated in urban land use planning and urban sector programmes (social inclusion and poverty alleviation, local economic development, environmental management, climate change strategies, amongst others) and used as a tool in sustainable city development.

Besides contributing environmental stories from Turkey and around the region to TreeHugger, Jennifer writes about the arts, culture, lifestyle, travel, and urban issues for other publications while exploring the city's many corners, snapping pictures, practicing her Turkish, and blogging about expat life.

Meanwhile, experts on urban issues such as Princeton professor John DiIulio and Robert Woodson of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise have been calling for foundations and governments to channel resources to congregations.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took an unexpected detour from her fundraising - only schedule in San Francisco, CA yesterday to visit a Chinatown teahouse, where she spent an hour with Mayor Ed Lee discussing urban issues including housing and homelessness.

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.

«I was on urban issues before Obama came, before we had the first black president.

[50] Concern over seeing rural residents left as minorities in districts focused overwhelmingly on urban issues prompted another Democratic lawmaker, Joe Aull, to propose a slight change to Casey's plan to keep rural voters together.

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5 part lesson series for the GCSE module Urban Issues and Challenges.

My MAT program was fantastic from the standpoint of helping me learn pedagogical strategies, classroom management, teaching literacy to older EL kids, and handling urban issues.

Our current programs focus on parks as a tool for preventive healthcare, a classroom for climate education, and a resource for critical urban issues like homelessness, income and racial inequity, and rapid development.

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.

Barnard College Columbia University, Junior Colloquium of Contemporary Urban Issues, Guest Lecturer with Adjunct Professor Liz Abzug, «Economic Development Incentives: Overview and Project Management Perspective,» November 19, 2014

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.

Michael got his start in journalism at the Dorchester Community News, a community newspaper serving Boston's largest neighborhood, where he covered a range of urban issues.

Theaster Gates, a Chicago artist known for his engagement with urban issues, is coming to Waterville, Me., a city with a population of roughly 16,000.

To bypass the Education Committee, chaired by Cunningham, the coalition held hearings for the proposal in Hoskins's Special Committee on Urban Issues, the only House committee chaired by a Democrat.

As Ottawa is attempting to bring more fairness to our fiscal landscape and fix what is largely an urban issue, it shouldn't penalize our agrifood sector.

«They feel frustrated and angry with the coalition, and are concerned that the Tory Party is focusing on urban issues,» Countryside Alliance chief executive Tim Bonner said.

«This is not a suburban issue, not a rural issue, not an urban issue,» said Sen. David Carlucci.

«We have always been there and that's why I have a unique perch because they weren't always on urban issues,» she says.

I was on urban issues during Clinton; I was on urban issues during George W Bush.

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

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

The op - ed quoted Anna Scott, a Ph.D. student who works on climate and urban issues.

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.

In the wake of the presidential election, Anna Scott, a Ph.D. student who works on climate and urban issues, expressed concern about the fate of the planet and her career.

This is a complete set of revision slides for Unit 2 Urban Issues and Challenges.

My favourite is to use this resource alongside a blank revision clock, followed by AQA Specimen exam questions on Unit 2 Urban Issues and Challenges.

A set of knowledge organisers and revision summaries that cover the first half of Section A: Urban Issues and Challenges of the AQA GCSE Syllabus.