Sentences with phrase «urban neighborhoods with»

We have sooooo many solicitors in this neighborhood... it's one of those densely populated urban neighborhoods with four feet between houses.

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Cofounder and CEO: Nick Gleason, age 33 Business: Web developer with the mission of recruiting and hiring its workforce from urban neighborhoods; CitySoft does no training but does team up with tech - training centers to develop training standards.

Hence: barely sweetened iced tea and totally biodegradable tea bags (Honest Tea Inc.); garden, home, and pet products made from recycled or organic materials (WorldWise Inc.); organic, shade - grown coffee with a guaranteed base price for growers (Sustainable Harvest Inc.); Web development using urban workers (CitySoft Inc.); nonsexist, nonviolent toys (Wild Planet Toys Inc.); revitalized communities and neighborhoods (Village Real Estate Services); and recycled paper products (New Leaf Paper LLC).

Breakthrough: A Toronto neighborhood aims to be the first place to successfully integrate cutting - edge urban design with state - of - the - art digital technology.

On any given day, residents can grab a coffee (served with animal crackers) at Tryst, arguably the most popular cafe in the neighborhood, stroll along the wide sidewalks, browse a few boutiques such as Urban Dwell, enjoy a meal on the balcony at Roofers Union while looking out over the city, and finally catch a live band or DJ playing at Songbyrd Music House.

What DC's dangling: a hip, upwardly mobile urban center with a young, highly educated, tech savvy workforce, an expansive public transit system, biking trails and other neighborhood amenities, not to mention close ties to Amazon's chief executive, Jeff Bezos.

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.

Through a posture of reconciliation and humility (not merely a vision of «community service»), they can engage urban communities through volunteering with early - stage literacy programs, partnering with ministries in underserved neighborhoods, and investing financial and human capital in local urban businesses.

With other members of the Congress for New Urbanism, I contend that the mixed - use walkable neighborhood is the sine qua non of urban design and that it ought to be a focus of both public policy and urban planning, whether such neighborhoods are considered in isolation or in relation to other neighborhoods.

This «city - state» was typically small in scale, with flexible but definite physical and geographic characteristics, It happened also to approximate the size of subsequent historic towns and urban neighborhoods — and for an obvious reason: it is an area that can be comfortably walked.

During the day the glass reflects the urban neighborhood around it, while in the evenings it glows with a calm inner light.

A student of mine went jogging with his father in their urban neighborhood.

In Indianapolis, my own church, Englewood Christian Church, is working with a wide range of neighborhood organizations toward the well - being of our urban place.

An ideal location is a mid-scale urban neighborhood or regional suburban market with a strong restaurant synergy.

While I don't miss that sleepless aspect, now living in a more urban neighborhood, I realize how much less in tune with the moon than I was then!

Planners envision a linear urban park that runs from North Ashland Avenue west to three blocks past Central Park Avenue, connecting the trendy Bucktown and Wicker Park neighborhoods with the more working - class residential areas of Logan Square and Humboldt Park.

«I am waiting to finish making contact with important inner city neighborhood and church leaders to build on my historical understanding of worsening urban problems that will be important issues in this campaign,» Guy said today.

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.

«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.

Her team is working with a number of Puget Sound urban areas, including Olympia, Tacoma, Seattle and Bainbridge Island, to map tree cover and explore socioeconomic issues related to having greater or fewer trees in a neighborhood.

Maybe urban gun violence is just too predictable to hold our attention: It is extraordinarily concentrated — «hypersegregated» in Macdonald's phrase — with a handful of neighborhoods in the 10 largest cities accounting for 30 percent of all gun homicides nationwide.

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In an underground club, DJ Williams (Columbus Short) and his friends spar with another group for a large pot of money at an urban dance off in an inner city Los Angeles» neighborhood.

With these new shopping malls, young people in Hasköy, who, thanks to the media, could envision how the middle class regarded them, that is those living in the «slums,» suddenly had to battle the ostracizing, discriminatory, degrading gaze of the middle class [14] not just in middle class urban spaces, but also in their own neighborhood.

April 29: Urban Neighborhoods and the Persistence of Racial Inequality with New York University Associate Professor Patrick Sharkey; Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein, University of California - Berkeley School of Law; and Harvard University Professor William Julius Wilson, director of Harvard Kennedy School Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program.

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students, with demographics that are similar to those of their local public school peers.

In particular, I've been focusing on understanding the degree to which Head Start might be more or less effective depending on where centers are located — in urban versus rural settings, in communities with high versus low levels of wraparound services and resources, in high - versus low - crime neighborhoods.

Issued in the spring of 1972, the panel's final report predicted that, unless steps were taken, alternatives to public schools would all but disappear; the greatest impact, the report noted, would be felt in «large urban centers, with especially grievous consequences for poor and lower middle - class families in racially changing neighborhoods where the nearby nonpublic school is an indispensable stabilizing factor.»

In particular, the income of neighborhood residents and the amenities available near the school both affect teachers» decisions of where to teach, particularly in urban areas with high population - density.

His blog which includes the Local Knowledge Blog deals with «research involving urban neighborhoods as well as partnership and protest in cities.

In previous roles corporate social responsibility for VILLA, an urban apparel company with a social justice mission; and managed a neighborhood community and economic development program.

June Jordan prepares urban youth to be: Community members who show respect, integrity, courage, and humility; Agents of change in their school, their neighborhoods, and the world; and Intellectuals with the skills necessary to succeed in college and life.

Excerpt: In this soon to be printed Local Government Commission report entitled «New Schools In Older Neighborhoods» principal writer Ann Kauth juxtaposes the unprecedented need our state's school system will face with the equally needed amount of revitalization our urban neighborhooNeighborhoods» principal writer Ann Kauth juxtaposes the unprecedented need our state's school system will face with the equally needed amount of revitalization our urban neighborhoodsneighborhoods will need.

In December, CPS became the latest large urban district to sign an agreement with the Gates Foundation, pledging greater cooperation and collaboration between the city's charter and neighborhood schools.

Sadly, the neighborhood school near our Grand Rapids home lacked the record of academic achievement that instills confidence, and we faced the all - too - common reality of an urban district with too few high quality options.

With the unleashing of their imaginations and mentorship from the National Organization of Minority Architects, four teams from Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, Sci Academy and Urban League College Track spent the last year analyzing the needs of various neighborhoods around the city and then developing architectural plans designed to meet those needs.

In urban areas, low - income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle - class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students.

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.

St. Catherine School is driven to provide all students in pre-kindergarten through 8th grade with a quality Catholic education in the urban setting of the Sherman Park neighborhood.

I worked with the President of the Urban League in Miami, T. Willard Fair, and in 1996, we started our own charter school for the Liberty City neighborhood.

His talk about «edu - localism» connects with his usual arguments about how improved transit infrastructure in urban settings makes everything better — he wants kids to be able to easily commute across town to access better schools that might be far from the neighborhoods they live in.

While it remains most acute in urban core neighborhoods with intergenerational poverty, 31 hunger is increasing in suburban locales and is most prevalent in rural Southern locales.32 Since wages have been stagnant or eroding in many industries, two - thirds of families experiencing food insecurity have at least one working adult, and many might initially appear to be maintaining a middle - class lifestyle.33

For example, engaging the Battery Save Mode would allow the vehicle to be driven in urban traffic with the engine / generator on to maintain a higher level of battery charge; it could then be deactivated, allowing the vehicle to be driven through a neighborhood silently at an appropriate speed in EV Drive Mode.

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.

One is her home in a poor black urban neighborhood; the other is the tony suburban prep school she attends with the white boy she dates there.

Co-developed with the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, the sign displays content that is most important for a particular location or neighborhood, bringing the public and government closer together and enabling real - time neighborhood communication.

With over two - dozen official neighborhoods, Providence is a sprawling urban patchwork.

Since cats are natural climbers and aren't prone to leashed walks, it's best to play with them indoors, especially if you live in an urban neighborhood or near canyons.

The full article gives sobering proof that in the not - so - distant past, local humane organizations have teamed up with law enforcement to use pit bulls as a profiling tool for targeting dark skinned men in urban neighborhoods.