Sentences with phrase «urban people on»

We're rooted in the nomadic culture of bike messengers and urban people on the go.

Not exact matches

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.
But if you're anything like me and a lot of other people, many of your runs will start on pavement, lead onto a park or woodland trail, and end up right back in urban or suburban environs.
What's next In March Wanelo added the ability for retailers to claim store pages on the site; Urban Outfitters, Free People and ModCloth are among those that jumped on board early.
Many people assume Zoox, Google, and Uber (which revealed its own driverless test car in May) will eventually launch their own urban fleets of on - demand autonomous vehicles.
A new tool from the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., lets people dig into student loan information on a state — and even county — level.
Pahon said part of the US civilian effort is training people on the ground on how to de-mine former urban battlefields.
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.
«In as little as 10 years, we could have products on the market that revolutionize urban travel for millions of people,» said Lyasoff.
I'm very much looking forward to participating in this forum at the Urban Institute on Monday, where I'll be on a panel talking about the role of higher education in both the economy and the lives of the people in the economy.
«Many people wanted to «return to the countryside,»» recalls Liu, referring to a Cultural Revolution - era program that sent urban youths to rural China in order to work on farms.
This is not a 50/50 sort of proposition where it's just the people on the coast or the urban areas.
One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.
William H. Whyte, a leader in the study of modern urban street life, spent decades studying the patterns of diverse people on the move.
That required that people now working on small peasant farms work in factories, which were located in urban centers.
Nor was anything like half the world's human population crowded into urban areas, with fewer chances for self - sustainability than people on the land have when times turn desperate.
I have talked to several people about writing on urban ministry, missiology, or preaching.
The precipitous plunging of people from the life of nomads, peasants, and forest dwellers to that of urban industrial workers has had catastrophic effects on morale.
By 1985, if noise pollution trends continue, people more than two feet apart on an average urban street corner will have to scream to be heard.
Next year I might go out on a limb so to speak and try planting on my balcony in pots... I've seen so many people with amazing urban gardens!
The Urban Food Heroes award, launched by London Food Link and UnLtd, the foundation for social entrepreneurs, is shining a light on these inspiring people.
Strengthens communities and inspires young people to achieve their potential through hands - on education and job training, using urban, natural, and maritime resources as «living classrooms.»
Bike Your Park Day encourages people to explore urban and rural parks and public lands by bicycle whether it's on paved roads, paths, or mountain bike trails.
When it was selected five years ago by the IOC, Albertville was arguably the least inviting community chosen to host the Winter Games since 1972, when they went to Sapporo, a formless urban blob of a million people on Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido.
I saw people talking good things here on Parenting From The Heart Blog and generaly in the internet about Susan Urban and her «How to teach a baby to fall asleep alone» guide (http://www.parental-love.com).
Due to the Yokohama's extra security measures to stop babies from unbuckling themselves (an incident that happens very often on alternative brands), some parents could realize it a very little arduous to wear the urban center by themselves and should like the assistance from a person.
An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.
And then there's the urban myths, the «old wives tales», the out of date information and some other stuff people have posted on the web that's just plain wrong (and sometimes dangerous).
I am sure that when these leaders wake up each morning, they are not thinking about foreign policy, but about domestic social unrest, the lack of provision of a proper welfare system, about how to deal with the issue of internal migrants (some 200 million people on the move from villages to urban areas demanding the same rights as urban locals), and so on.
She attributes the change to becoming educated by people like Mayor Bloomberg about the influence of illegal guns on urban crime.
His research focuses on understanding distressed urban neighborhoods, the redevelopment of shrinking cities, as well as issues of social isolation, racial justice and class facing people of color.
If we proceed on those terms... David can listen rather more to Conservative MPs, who represent the real people of this country, and give rather less regard to the Liberal Democrat intellectual urban elite, with their student politics idea of reforming the constitution and taking forward green policies.
She adds: «When I first started... they [fellow journalists] thought I was militant, because at that time you weren't really hearing a lot of people raising their hand asking about urban issues on a consistent basis.»
Like every person interviewed for this story, Mr. Sevillia blamed the dearth of federal urban investment on Congress.
Relations between the city and the county have improved and worsened through the years, often dependent on the leadership styles of the people at the top and a natural tension between urban and suburban interests.
People on the Lower East Side have been fighting about SPURA since at least 1967, when thousands of homes and businesses were bulldozed in the name of urban renewal.
Thus, not only do rural people have a greater democratic say in how their local governments are run, they also have a greater democratic say in how some of their key utilities and economic institutions are run, and are far more likely per capita to serve on the governing boards of such institutions, (even though, as in the case of governments, they have far less formal training and expertise in doing so than their urban counterparts running investor owned corporations that do the same things in urban areas).
· Reclaim Our Name (Manchester) Reclaim Our Name shines a light on the positive role young people can play in urban communities.
Private landlords who have blanket bans on renting to people with criminal records are in violation of the Fair Housing Act and can be sued and face penalties for discrimination, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development said.
In the federal criminal case, Percoco and Howe, a lobbyist who previously was an adviser to Cuomo at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, used private email accounts that, according to a person involved in the case, are highly incriminating and on par with a wiretap in terms of their prosecutorial weight.
She expressed her hope that the Trump administration will focus on infrastructure funding, job creation for working - class people and «a meaningful urban agenda» to solve problems that cities deal with.
Fuel duty's disproportionate impact on rural voters: «The Government understand the challenges faced by people in rural areas in relation to fuel costs, which those of us in city and urban areas perhaps do not face.
Libeskind said his goal was not just to replace the office space lost on 9/11, but also to create a multi-use urban environment that allowed a wide variety of people to come together both to remember and to move forward.
Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced that an outstanding partnership of public and private partners is working together to hold an Employment Workshop on May 6th to help the people of Utica's urban neighborhoods learn about employment opportunities at the Defense Finance Accounting Service office at Griffiss Park in Rome.
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For example, in urban areas where people tend to purchase their fuel, rather than harvest it, it is often easier to sell the new cookstove on its cost - saving efficiency.»
As the global movement of people and products grows, the airport of 2052 would take on the role of self - contained urban center.
Future City Dongtan China watches over every drop of water On a small, thinly populated island about 14 miles off the coast of Shanghai, a city is rising that could spell salvation for the 1 billion people expected to live in China's urban areas by 2045.
One of the great ironies of those historic housing patterns in Miami is that for decades under Jim Crow, laws and zoning restricted black people to parts of the urban core, an older part of the community that sits on relatively higher ground along a limestone ridge that runs like a topographic stripe down the eastern coast of South Florida.
«Some people know that the conditions on the ground are so harsh that their families are not going to be able to stay,» said Edwin Meléndez, a professor of urban affairs and planning at Hunter College in New York City and director of the school's Center for Puerto Rican Studies.
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