Sentences with phrase «urban neighborhoods by»

Caribbeans were not accused of gentrification as gentrification is a process of renovation and revival of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of influx of more affluent residents, which results in increased property values and the displacing of lower - income families and small businesses.

Cuomo and his administration have announced or budgeted for multiple projects over the past few months that promise to heal urban neighborhoods by repairing the damage inflicted by mid-century highways.

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Johnson added that Airbnb is also helping grow cities, by spreading urban tourists to new neighborhoods.

Attempts by Jews to move their people out of the urban centers and into colonies on the land have not been successful save in the neighborhood of big cities or in special circumstances.

83 Degrees Media tells the stories of urban and emerging neighborhoods, community building, placemaking, entrepreneurship, creativity, arts and growing companies by featuring stories about talent, innovation, global diversity and environment in the Tampa Bay region of Florida.

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

The formal characteristics of traditional towns and urban neighborhoods are easily learned by attending carefully to the most beloved cities and neighborhoods in the world.

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.

Characterized by a mix of urban and suburban neighborhoods, Brookline is bordered by the City of Boston on three sides.

Crappy food is cheaper (because of corporate welfare, supported by conservative politicians) and more easily available in poor urban neighborhoods; therefore choices are being influenced by corporations.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Tuesday that its latest air monitoring program near the Peace Bridge shows the air people breathe in adjacent neighborhoods beset by high asthma rates is comparable to other similarly sized cities and high - traffic urban areas.

The Health Effects Institute states that the neighborhoods by the Peace Bridge are not an air quality hot spot because emissions levels are similar or even better than in other urban areas.

By requiring public notification for expiring urban renewal areas and a publicly accessible website with information about currently and formerly designated urban renewal areas, this legislation would empower more communities to take action to protect their neighborhoods.

There are no remaining urban renewal areas on the Lower East Side, so the legislation, if allowed to become law by the mayor, won't be applicable in this neighborhood.

The following opinion piece was written by Brett Leitner, founder of SHARE, a neighborhood organization advocating for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area:

The stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

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.

Whether youre testing out a great urban trail or walking in your own neighborhood, you can boost your calorie burn, walk faster, and stay injury - free by having good form.

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.

New efforts aim to head off teacher biases by running preservice students through simulations or embedding them in urban neighborhoods.

By taking on such real - life roles as site planner, financial analyst, marketing director, and neighborhood - to - city liaison, team members learn firsthand the nitty - gritty intricacies of urban renewal.

At a time when squatter neighborhoods were regarded as the biggest obstacle before urban development by the urban elite in Turkey, and residents of squatter houses and thus the urban working class were regarded as «backward» villagers, workers from both Hasköy and Güzeltepe earned respectability due to their working class identities.

In this period, in addition to Güzeltepe, working class neighborhoods such as Gülsuyu, Gazi, Armutlu, 1 Mayıs Mahallesi, Okmeydanı largely populated by an urban Alevi and leftist population also transformed into neighborhoods where there was constant police surveillance.

6 - 9 — Education research: 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, sponsored by the Asia - Pacific Research Institute of Peking University, the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Saint Mary's College of California School of Education, and the University of Louisville's Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods Program, for researchers and educators, at the Ilikai Waikiki Beach Hotel in Honolulu...

Seeing the challenges confronted by highly segregated and under - resourced schools in crime - ridden neighborhoods, I realized that most urban children in America were as or more profoundly disadvantaged than children I had met in India, Nepal, and Mexico during previous international development work.

The story of Syracuse is familiar: misguided attempts at urban renewal in the 1960s, destruction of old neighborhoods by interstate highways penetrating the city center, expansion of suburbs facilitated by federally funded highways and tax benefits for new housing; movement of many industrial facilities to the South; and redlining of old city neighborhoods so they could not get necessary mortgages and insurance for home purchase, rehabilitation, and maintenance.

For his students» East New York project, Ramos - Fermin started out by giving them a primer on real estate and urban planning, because the neighborhood they're investigating is undergoing rapid redevelopment.

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

Because of the entrenched practice of assigning students to public schools based on their neighborhood of residence, urban public schools tend to concentrate highly disadvantaged students in schools characterized by low levels of safety and achievement.

6 - 9 — Education research: 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, sponsored by the Asia - Pacific Research Institute of Peking University, the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Saint Mary's College of California School of Education, and the University of Louisville's Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods Program, for researchers and educators, at the Ilikai Waikiki Beach Hotel...

The city is divided into dozens of distinct neighborhoods and urban villages supported by an eclectic mix of stores and restaurants.

We empower urban youth to transform their neighborhoods through intensive community service and to change the world by building schools in some of the economically poorest countries on the planet.

Among the texts most often assigned were Jonathan Kozol's «Savage Inequalities,» an indictment of schooling in poor urban neighborhoods, and writings by Paulo Freire, who advocates education to achieve political liberation.

And no political or education leaders are recommending a consolidation of suburban and urban districts that experts say would be needed to truly address an imbalance driven largely by neighborhood demographics.

Writing for the Washington Post, Lindsay Layton reported the NOLA district closed the remaining neighborhood schools as part of a «grand experiment in urban education for the nation,» shifting local control of public schools by voters and their elected representatives to privately operated charter schools.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

Here I converse with cultural and intellectual histories of the late - twentieth - century U.S., proposing that childhood, parenthood, and neighborhood afford a bottom - up view of how markets, multiculturalism, and meritocracy developed side - by - side in America's urban schoolhouses.

Increase the number of proven, high - performing public charter schools by recruiting charter management organizations and leaders from across the country who have demonstrated a proven record of success educating children and teens in economically challenged urban neighborhoods.

Inspired by her grandmother's stories of urban activist Jane Jacobs, young Lucia takes a walk with her grandmother and begins to notice the people, activities, jobs, cultures, and beauty that make up her diverse Toronto neighborhood.

By analyzing organizational data and speaking with local animal welfare organizations such as St. Paul Animal Control, AHS identified three urban neighborhoods in the metro area under - utilizing AHS services: North Minneapolis, Frogtown, and East St. Paul.

There was certainly a bad spike of urban dogfighting in the»90s, but now it's this idea that any urban neighborhood, or any neighborhood that's populated by a majority of people of color, is somehow some hotbed of dogfighting, and that's just not true.

Likewise, Petco has been evolving its brand with the Unleashed by Petco concept, which turns the big - box concept on its ear with small, 5,000 - square - foot stores that allow the company to more easily fit into urban markets and feature more of a neighborhood - pet - shop feel.

By providing innovative ecological education programs to young people from our urban neighborhoods, the Center hopes to spark positive environmental change for today and tomorrow.

Enter the Olive Exclusive, the city's first contemporary boutique hotel, designed by South African photographer Micky Hoyle, in a quiet residential neighborhood a five - minute drive from the urban center.

It's also one of the few neighborhoods relatively untouched by Haussmannian urban planning.

Located in Denver's lower Downtown neighborhood at 17th and Wazee this restaurant is the fourth Urban Farmer by Sage Restaurant Group.

Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, and produced by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art invites artists to think of creative ways to engage with the uniqueness of the architecture, history, and design of the High Line and to foster a productive dialogue with the surrounding neighborhood and urban landscape.

First installed by the artist in 1993 in a former firehouse on 141st Street, the piece conveyed both a sober perspective of what the neighborhood had endured — the crack epidemic, urban blight — and also hope for the future.

Organized by REDCAT with a consortium of organizations and independent artists, the festival connects artists from more than a dozen countries with neighborhoods city - wide, through vital performances in parks, plazas, galleries, theaters and busy urban settings.

Los Angeles - based architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of JohnstonMarkLee architectural firm were instrumental in examining these areas defining characteristics and placing the works of art in ways which either reinforce the urban condition, or challenges it by creating a new way of experiencing a neighborhood.