Sentences with phrase «urban living opportunities»

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Yet urban living offers many opportunities for society to craft a more sustainable way of living and working.

Researchers of the Canadian study says factors such as work, urban size, population density, economic opportunity or deprivation, and access to and quality of infrastructure, amenities and services may explain the community - level differences in life satisfaction.

Unless we make our large, complex urban centers into something more than grab bags of opportunities, nothing — not enterprise zones, new housing projects or more police officers — will make them good places to live.

With half of the global population now living in urban areas, he said there were opportunities for retailers and foodservice operators in this emerging field.

Rural communities are much more likely than urban populations to talk about the desire to keep their communities rooted, for there to be opportunities for their children to live and work close to where their parents live.

«Catholic Charities is pleased to partner with the Erie County Department of Social Services and the Buffalo Urban League to provide this summer employment opportunity for our young people living in Buffalo and Erie County.

Economic opportunity has always been a big part of the allure of urban life, yet most cities are at least pockmarked by areas of extreme poverty.

But another force trumps the drawbacks of urban living: cities bring opportunities for wealth and for the creative inspiration that can result only from face - to - face contact with others.

It gives us the opportunity to sneak a covert peek at a trio of sad lives that crash in an urban sea of troubles.

In many urban neighborhoods, pregnancies were seen by future mothers as opportunities to begin life anew.

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

«Every student deserves the opportunity to receive an education that prepares them for future success, whether they live in an urban, suburban, or rural community,» said Gentzel.

Unacknowledged by the NAACP is that access to charter schools gives blacks and other minorities a great opportunity to escape lives of poverty and / or crime in many urban areas.

Dr Tessa Stone is the Chief Executive of Farms for City Children, the education charity founded in 1976 by Michael Morpurgo and his wife Clare to offer urban children from all over the country a unique opportunity to live and work together for a week at a time on a real farm in the heart of the countryside.

Bright Star Schools administrators recognize the problems with the «urban martyr» teaching model and want to support their educators by providing benefits and opportunities to help teachers balance their responsibilities in the classroom with their personal lives.

Phoenix Charter Academy Network has an exciting new opportunity for individuals seeking to enter the world of urban education and make a difference in students» lives!

In addition, Opportunity 180 believes we need great urban elementary, middle and high schools, and we look forward to building out K - 12 pathways with the schools we support to transform students» lives.

But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual «urban underclass» depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore's inner - city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early life opportunities available to low - income populations.

Urban pioneers were given the opportunity to buy a shell from the city for $ 1 if they could get the renovation loan and would agree to live in the new home.

Senior Policy Associate Carinne Deeds will be presenting alongside Erica Curry Van - Ee, Founder, Urban Curry Consulting (Grand Rapids, Michigan) and Daniel Tsin, Director of Data and Accountability, Urban Alliance on the ways in which afterschool is providing social and emotional learning opportunities aimed at ensuring that all kids are ready for college, work, and life.

But just as e-signage presents an opportunity for a city's development, it is not without its challenges: to enable a city's evolution into a truly smart, and therefore sustainable and green urban living space, digital signs should support energy saving features, be implementable even at the most demanding of locations, power grid or no, and feature superb visibility in all light conditions.

The HRSA offers limited scholarship and grant opportunities, but has several programs that feature low - interest loans and some loan forgiveness programs for doctors and nurses, especially those willing to live and work in underserved rural and urban communities.

The Trumann area has many excellent school districts, 2 large hospitals in Jonesboro, low traffic congestion, easy commute, low crime rates, low cost of living, many options for home ownership, from urban to rural, and opportunities for outdoor activities are abundant, including duck hunting, and fishing.

The feral cat population on Catalina Island provides an ideal opportunity to assess the impact of TNR on cat populations living at the wildland — urban interface.

Lack of opportunities to pee throughout the day might also account for the fact that dogs in urban Toronto have a significantly greater incidence of oxalate bladder stones than those that live in the surrounding rural areas.

«Since 2001 the Center has positively impacted the lives of young people by fostering opportunities for them to learn and play in nature and experience the interconnection between the natural and urban environments.»

Couchsurfing not only allows the unique opportunity to meet and temporarily live with locals, but it's extremely helpful in urban areas.

This is an extremely significant opportunity for the people of San Francisco to create a dramatic new legacy for future generations — a place where the Presidio meets the Bay, a place where the City can reflect back upon itself, a place where urban life meets the most amazing natural resources, unparalleled by any other city.

I recently had the opportunity to learn more about this remarkable young woman, who went on to transform Africa's largest urban slum and change the lives of many of its residents.

As part of Pratt Institute, we use urban planning, architecture, and public policy to support community - based organizations in their efforts to improve quality of life, create economic opportunity, and advance sustainable development.

Over the course of the year they will have opportunities to be embedded with NYC Urban Field Station staff, projects, and sites, and will share their own work via the Urban Field Station's Science of the Living City public seminars.

Living primarily in urban western cultures I seek to create environments incorporating nature and the human form as an opportunity to engage, interpret and learn from the act and outcome of creating.»

Through their affiliation, artists will have opportunities to be embedded with Urban Field Station staff, projects, and sites, and will share their own work via internal brownbag talks and Science of the Living City public seminars.

The UPA Portfolio Review will provide artists and photographers with the opportunity to have their work reviewed by experienced practicing urban photographers, educationists and researchers focusing on contemporary urban life.

These projects give artists the opportunity to innovate their practice while engaging millions of people with art that permeates everyday urban life.

The report argues for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors with high mitigation potential as urban systems combining transport, buildings, water supply, waste treatment, food supply and land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.

Urban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouUrban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban water resources.

The China - U.S. Partnership for Sustainable Development is currently working to transform several urban cores into living systems that will process waste water, leverage opportunities for renewable energy, and create new green spaces for public use.

Furthermore, urban life offers few opportunities to stroll through bright, uninterrupted sunlight.

Motivate's team of sponsorship, marketing, technology and creative experts works closely with brands to ensure each sponsorship brings the brand to life, aligns with the brand's values and goals and offers the brand unparalleled opportunity to connect with urban residents in an authentic and meaningful way.

Large - center practice is operating at unprecedented levels of profitability these days; even if small - center practices were still reasonably feasible, large - center practices are now so lucrative that it's hard for any but the most diehard devotees of small - town life to pass up the opportunities in urban Canada.

Due to effects of multigenerational poverty, limited educational and economic opportunities, high levels of drug use and trade, and pervasive community violence, urban youth in Baltimore and many US cities are at increased risk for exposure to a variety of stresses, including early life stress, recurrent and chronic stress, and exposure to significant and / or recurrent traumas.

This means we have a real opportunity to get behind the value proposition for urban living and to match it to market segments.

Justin Palmer — Definitely, it's something that is tough for us to go and get scale, because we have also stepped up in deal size, our first couple of deals were in the five to 10 million range, and now we're doing 30 to 100 million, and we'd like to stay above 30, but we are going out looking at other markets, particularly in the multi family and senior housing space, we think there's still a lot of opportunity in housing and urban markets around the country, there's a lot of urban markets well they're are seeing tremendous growth, and I think that's more of a structural shift in where people want to live and work, and I think like you said, you're probably not going to see the rent growths you've seen around the country in the past four or five years, but there are still opportunities to go buy a B asset and turn it into a B + over the next 3 to 5 years and make good value there.

First Nations people who live in urban centres in Manitoba will have a greater opportunity to own their homes and improve their lives this...

First Nations people who live in urban centres in Manitoba will have a greater opportunity to own their homes and improve their lives this year, thanks to an innovative home ownership program believed to be the first of its kind in Canada.

The Urban Core of Oklahoma City has become some of the most highly sought after real estate offering a unique living opportunity in neighborhoods such as Downtown OKC, Bricktown, Midtown, The Plaza, Deep Deuce, Midtown, SoSA, Heritage Hills, Mesta Park, Crown Heights, Edgemere Park, Edgemere Terrace, Gatewood, Shepherd, Crestwood, Cleveland, Miller and Linwood.

Beyond showcasing urban living, LYP and its tour partners, including Lancaster Housing Opportunity and local realtors, are providing information on financing and home ownership opportunities.