Sentences with phrase «urban neighborhoods founded»

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And as urban neighborhoods disintegrate, the least skilled members of our society find themselves alone, deprived of a functioning community within which they can find safety, self - respect, and the challenges that are prerequisites for self - fulfillment and happiness.

Previously, she founded the nationally - acclaimed Oakland Urban Strategies Council, where she pioneered new approaches to neighborhood revitalization.

We studied 100 congregations in six urban neighborhoods, and found their average total budget to be $ 150,000.

Founded in 1990, MDM Group's vision has been driven by a desire to bring the highest quality amenities and brands to underserved urban markets including what is the neighborhood around Dadeland Mall, Brickell Avenue and most recently, Miami's downtown core.

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

The researchers adjusted their findings for race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty, education and how urban the neighborhood the children lived in was.

«One theory that resonated with a lot of the things we found points to the importance of busy streets in promoting outdoor activity, interaction and cohesion in communities, which could potentially deter street violence,» said Branas, who has led several previous studies suggesting that urban parks and greening vacant lots encourage people to become invested in maintaining their neighborhoods and may reduce violent crime.

Michigan State University researcher and urban geographer Rick Sadler has found in a new, more comprehensive study that maintaining the yards of vacant properties can help reduce crime rates in urban neighborhoods.

Cropsey (Unrated) Urban legend documentary shot by a couple of first - time filmmakers from Staten Island determined to find out whether there's any truth to the haunting rumor circulated during their childhood that an escapee from a nearby insane asylum had been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of five kids from their neighborhood.

The neighborhood schools movement has found friends among some of the city's more progressive urban planners.

But if the spillover effects of urban charter schools on district schools are confined to relatively small neighborhoods, then findings from prior analyses may well be underestimates.

Wolves patrol their boundaries every 1 to 3 weeks, yet I find dogs, in our yards and in our neighborhoods, will urine mark on every walk we take, and a lost urban dog will probably patrol their entire territory once a day.

From talking with people who do urban core outreach in Kansas City, they say that most of the people they run across aquired their pet when a friend or relative could no longer take care of it, or they found it running loose in their neighborhood.

Sip your way along the Ventura County Wine Trail, where you'll find nearly 20 wineries and tasting rooms in settings ranging from urban neighborhoods to the bucolic Ojai Valley.

Santa Barbara is home to a collection of unique neighborhoods with their own personalities and treasures to discover like the Funk Zone, where you'll find the tasting rooms of the Urban Wine Trail.

He derives inspiration from his immediate environment, incorporating found objects gathered in and around urban neighborhoods and embracing varied cultural references.

Over the past five years, the artist's large sculptures, often built from repurposed materials found in blighted urban neighborhoods, have featured in a rash of major surveys that gather the world's most progressive work — 2010's Whitney Biennial, 2013's dOCUMENTA, and 2015's Venice Biennale.

She brought back that experience intact, and has applied it to the beauty she finds in her urban neighborhoods, during weekend escapes from the city, and the occasional trip abroad.

These occupied theaters, that soon became points of reference in the neighborhood, gave birth to Urban Area Project founded by a.DNA Collective.

At Galerie Michael Janssen of Berlin, life - sized glass heads are filled with found objects and Theaster Gates, a Chicago performance artist and urban planner who takes a proactive approach to improving poor neighborhoods, is displaying two chalk board works that show his creative thought process at Kavi Gupta gallery.

Attracted to nature, she finds cemeteries a quiet place to commune and escape from the urban noise and traffic in her Brooklyn neighborhood.

Prenatal exposure to pesticides — common in agricultural areas as well as low - income urban neighborhoods, where the chemicals are used to control cockroaches and other insects — can significantly affect a child's ability to succeed in school, a trio of new studies finds.

No significant differences in high schools attended were found between the 2 groups, again suggesting that Seattle's mandatory busing program overcame the separation of students from different neighborhoods and elementary schools sometimes found in large urban school districts.

Ge and colleagues, for instance, found that early maturation is linked to internalizing symptoms among African American adolescents residing in rural and suburban neighborhoods (Ge et al. 2001, 2003, 2006) and have called for additional research on African American adolescents living in urban environments.

The majority of millennials» housing preferences may not be as different from previous generations as once believed, according to a new report released this week from The Demand Institute, Millennials and Their Homes: Still Seeking the American Dream.The report finds that the majority of millennials want to own a house in the suburbs as they look to raise families and they want more space, a veer from other studies that have shown twentysomethings will likely choose walkable urban neighborhoods when it comes time to buy.

Finding a home for $ 500,000 «may be difficult» in San Francisco, San Mateo, or Marin counties, but buyers can still find homes for about that price in a few close - in, urban neighborhoods in San Leandro, Union City, Newark, and Hayward.

Yet many will remain unable to afford buying in urban neighborhoods and be forced to consider less expensive outer suburbs — a big change from the past when people moved there by choice to find newer and bigger homes, McIlwain explained.

The clean lines and concrete look of Soho tile is inspired by the urban feel and trendy styles of New York City, where you can find the real Soho neighborhood.