Sentences with phrase «urban living in»

Developers are seeing a diverse groups of tenants and buyers who want to occupy amenity - rich complexes of varying types — lofts, mid-rises and high - rises — and have worry - free, beautiful urban living in environmentally - conscious, yet luxurious settings.
Burns says this will spark even greater demand for high - density, low - maintenance living and what he calls «surban» (urban living in suburban environments).
«The launch of the Citi Bike program in Jersey City shows that bike share has become a critical component of healthy, sustainable and convenient urban living in cities of all sizes.»
Because the land available for house building is limited, the village combines dense urban living in a rural context.
Still, the emphasis on partnership, however wise for the institution, evokes the eerie underside of urban living in the contemporary US.
Artistic in every detail, this two - story, three - bedroom residence redefines the art of urban living in Bangkok, combining sophisticated elegance with signature St. Regis bespoke services at the city's most prestigious address.
The cityscape and newsprint image in the New York News Framed Wall Art from Amanti Art expresses the excitement of urban living in a unique way.
«The architecture certainly facilitates urban living in a modern sense,» Merete Ries, who lives in the development, said.
We believe designers are choosing urban life in the city over suburban life elsewhere.
The reasons Melville should have hated New York have led many readers to imagine that he did in fact undertake an assault upon urban life in his land - based novels, Pierre (1852) and Israel Potter (1855), and such stories as «Bartleby, the Scrivener» (1853).
Paolo Soleri has conceived of an alternative form of urban life in which the architectural ecology — arcology for short — would promote both justice and the environment.
Montréal, Québec City and Gatineau — all of which are nicely situated alongside great waterways — each present a different facet of urban life in Québec, while sharing certain assets: an exciting cultural scene, top - notch hotels and gourmet offerings that reflect the very best culinary traditions.
Easy to manoeuvre thanks to the short distance between axles, ideal for the city and helps you take urban life in your stride.
Has anyone in recent memory written such complex, insightful and entertaining novels about urban life in America as Richard Price?
Baltimore Whole Life For millions of people around the country, the acclaimed television show «The Wire» might present an exaggerated view of the dangers of urban life in Baltimore.
However, in the wake of the Watts riots, and the general breakdown of urban life in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Marshall focused on «an examination of the historical absence, or «invisibility» of the black figure in the tradition of painting.»
Through his facility with a wide variety of media (painting, neon, ceramic and sculpture), Martinez colorfully scrutinizes otherwise everyday realities of suburban and urban life in L.A. with humor, sensitivity and wit.
While I'll readily agree that Manet's depictions of urban life in 19th - century Paris are some of the most exciting works ever painted, I find this once - shocking style neutralised by association.
This exhibition at Tate Modern explores modern urban life in New York and Tokyo through William Klein, one of the 20th century's most important photographers and filmmakers, and Daido Moriyama, the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement
William Raphael's 19th - century depiction of urban life in wintry Montreal has been brought back to its home country.
Included will be drawings and sculptures which explore the lives of teenagers and the ordinary people (and subcultures) who make up the fabric of urban life in Philadelphia.
Siskind's photographic beginnings took place in the 1930s as a member of the New York - based Film and Photo League, a socially and politically conscious organization that sought to document urban life in New York in the midst of the Great Depression.
While this exhibition takes its starting point from hip hop, it branches out to include artists who use pop culture, graffiti, fashion and other signifiers of urban life in combination with more traditional forms of Aboriginal identity.
The term «Ashcan School» - first used in print in the book Art in America in Modern Times (1934) edited by Holger Cahill and Alfred H Barr - refers to a loose - knit group of American painters active in New York (c.1900 - 15), whose works depicted scenes of everyday urban life in the city's poorer areas.
The series contains 292 images compiled from over 4000 newspaper posters, displaying modern urban life in the raw and holding nothing back.
Landscapes on show will feature his distinctive «matchstick» figures dotted around depictions of urban life in England's north - west.
Mr. Newsome has fans in many corners of the art world, who praise him for his ability to render urban life in a formal studio context.
Encompassing photography, drawing, painting, and film, Ruscha's work elevates the viewer out of the banality of urban life in order to recognize the barrage of mass media - fed images and information that assault us daily.
From the 1930s to mid-1940s, Lewis focused on the natural world and personal observations of ordinary people and urban life in Harlem.
Back in December, Sewell Chan wrote a great post on the bigger questions for City Room after attending a meeting on urban life in 2050.
23 January, 2018 — More than a third of India's electricity supply is at risk from water scarcity, which also threatens urban life in parts of South Africa.
Said Mr. Otteau, «Because of the dramatic improvement in urban life in the last 20 years, it's no longer a given that when you're ready to raise a family, you need to go out and buy a house in the suburbs.»

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But this research found that 18 percent of the recent increase in urban life expectancy was due to decreased air pollution.
That's 25 to 35, and it's someone living in an urban area, who could buy a car but chooses not to because it's not conducive to the urban lifestyle.
Today, 71 per cent of its members live in urban centres.
After living on a commune in Oregon, he and his wife, Judy, moved to Burlington in 1970, joining so many other back - to - the - landers looking to flee their harried urban existences.
«But we realized that category wasn't sustainable, given that 80 % of Canadians live in urban environments.
As I shared with Inc., the biggest mistake we make as entrepreneurs is appealing to urban, upwardly - mobile young people on either coast - and in living all across the country, I understand how diversity not only represents color, but also orientation, income and needs.
The only constant will be the role technology plays in shaping urban life.
The resulting standard of living in the most expensive urban area, Manhattan, was more than twice the national average at 223.9 percent, whereas the cost of living in the least expensive urban area is 20 percent below the national average.
He hired an urban gardener to cover every square inch of wall space in a living room with plants.
«We see millennial buyers in urban areas selling their cars,» said Stokes, adding that these buyers are also more open than ever to living in areas that aren't right next to a metro station.
She was with the Urban League's Monique Williams - Moore, who has been running job - readiness programs in the area, including a unique one created with Starbucks to give kids with complicated lives a chance to learn customer service and team work.
Over half the world's population is now aged under 30, with the same proportion living in an urban environment.
As people start living in more sterile and urban environments their immune systems aren't exposed to microbes and don't know what to do when they encounter allergens or bacteria, making allergies and auto - immune diseases more prevalent, Scientific American's podcast Science Talk explains.
«They save lives in local hospitals and own businesses in communities urban and rural throughout this country.»
The 2013 Hult Prize, which kicks off the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting for heads of state and leaders of businesses and nonprofits, will award $ 1 million to the sole startup idea that best secures food for undernourished communities — particularly for the 200 million people who live in urban slums.
My restaurant is in the suburbs and the spending habits are different than what I am used to in the standard in urban life.
The more he seems to be isolated from the urban life, the more customers believe in Burt's Bees» commitment to be «natural.»
Visions of the Smart City are starting to materialize as CTO's for major municipalities are coming to understand how Internet of Things products and services can provide cost savings, increase quality of life and promote safety in urban environments.
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