Sentences with phrase «urban planning community»

Puerto Madero, also known within the urban planning community as the Puerto Madero Waterfront, is a barrio (district) of the Argentine capital at Buenos Aires CBD, occupying a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank and representing the latest architectural trends in the city of Buenos Aires.

Not exact matches

Urban and regional planners develop land use plans and programs that help create communities, accommodate population growth, and revitalize physical facilities in towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.

(5) Inner - city urban ministry either as a one - year resident or one day a week for thirty weeks to mingle with the people wherever they are, to engage the power structure of the community, to explore the economic and political strategies of community planning, to discover the potentialities for a ministry to total needs of persons who are deprived or in stress.

Myself and many others were pleased to see that food localisation was widely seen as an obvious and necessary pathway forward, with strategic land use planning — urban and peri-urban agriculture, community gardens, edible streetscapes and so on — identified as an urgent priority for all local and state governments in the coming years.

But for many moms who do not live in urban communities, these plans look a little different.

As a number of recent high - profile developments and decisions show a trend toward a more urban lifestyle in Arlington Heights, officials there will take on a year - long process to update the village's community planning strategy.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition New York State Assembly NYS Assembly Community Resource Exchange (CRE) SCO Family of Services HCCI Chinese American Planning Council, Inc Heights and Hills Citizen Action of New York ROCitizen New York Association on Independent Living ATLI - Action Together Long Island NYSCAA New York Immigration Coalition Catholic Charities of Chemung & Schuyler Counties CDRC Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS Catholic Charities Professional Staff Congress Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley New York State Network for Youth Success NAMI Albany County Central Federation of Labor Food & Water Watch Jewish Family Service Metro New York Health Care for All Alliance for Positive Change MercyFirst Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, Queens (CIDNY) SiCM — Schenectady Community Ministries Coalition for the Homeless CIDNY Citizen Action of NY PEF Retiree Urban Parhways, Inc Community Food Advocates PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 New York StateWide Senior Action Council Early Care & Learning Council Urban Pathways African Services Committee Day Care Council of New York New York State Community Action Association Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc The Radical Age Movement United Neighborhood Houses

Poloncarz said the community is still feeling the impact of bad urban planning decisions made a half a century ago.

BRONX, NY — State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and Urban Health Plan launched the Spring Countdown to Fitness program at Harding Park Community Center on March 4th.

State Sen. Kevin Parker charged that the plan has «created another barrier that will negatively impact urban, immigrant communities such as the one I represent in Central Brooklyn.»

Bronx, New York — New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC), join Monadnock Development, Signature Urban Properties, and GTIS Partners for a ribbon - cutting ceremony to mark the completion of construction of the first two of ten planned buildings at Compass Residences in the Bronx.

Urban Health Plan is a non-profit, federally - qualified community health center that operates branches throughout Queens, the Bronx, and New York City.

(Bronx, NY)-- Today, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D - Queens, the Bronx) was honored by staff and patients at Urban Health Plan for his years of leadership and advocacy on behalf of community health centers in New York and across America.

Since taking office, Hoffay has embraced a series of progressive urban planning initiatives including the Complete Streets program to make Kingston more bike - and pedestrian - friendly, an initiative to reduce the city's carbon footprint and efforts by the Kingston Land Trust to create community gardens and preserve open space.

Julia Vitullo - Martin, the director of the Regional Plan Association's Center for Urban Innovation and a vocal critic of the now dead community benefits agreement (CBA) at the Kingsbridge Armory, sounds off on proposed CBAs in Buffalo.

The information gathered at the forums will assist the County's Department of Environment and Planning in preparing the 2017 Community Development application to the US Department of Housing & Urban Development.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

«Naloxone trainings are crucially important as we continue to see a rise in overdoses in our community and I'm pleased to partner with Senator Klein and Urban Health Plan to hopefully help save lives,» said Councilman Salamanca, Jr..

«The Countdown to Fitness Program has generated a lot of interest in the community to get fit and live a healthier lifestyle,» said Paloma Hernandez - Izquierdo, CEO and President of Urban Health Plan.

The Bronx Council on the Arts, located at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), hosts three exhibitions through May 7: In the City: Memory, Places and Spaces, which includes works on migration and urban planning; Transmit - Transit: Hatuey Ramos - Fermin @ The Project Room, featuring traveling in the city and ethnic diversity; and Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear, featuring construction of hats in unorthodox ways.

On Friday, attorneys for the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center fired off a letter to City Planning Director Marisa Lago.

We must prevent a looming» water war «by creating a state - wide water plan and covenant so our communities (rural and urban alike) can remain active, informed, and able to adapt to their changing water needs.

These efforts continue as New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offer communities the opportunity to compete for tens of millions of redevelopment dollars for the presentation of a thorough, innovative, and collaborative sustainability plan for their region.

Over the last several months, as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area planning process chugged forward, we've sat through countless community board meetings, interviewed dozens of local residents and decision - makers and published op - eds from various players invested in the proposed residential and retail project.

After 43 years of bitter battles over the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, Community Board 3's land use committee approved a set of planning guidelines tonight for the 7 - acre parcel next to the Williamsburg Bridge.

County Executive Joanie Mahoney is proposing a new development plan that she says will reward suburban communities that restrict sprawl and give tax credits to developers who build in urban centers rather than paving over farmland.

Lander and the other elected officials are now asking DCP and HPD not to approve a change to the urban renewal plan unless it meets community goals.

With his interest piqued, he then went on to educate himself on zoning law as well as the civic community, earned a masters of science in urban affairs and planning from Hunter College and helped form the North Flushing Civic Association.

But Thomas Angotti, a professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, who came to speak to the group, said the community has reason to be wary of the administration's promises.

Blatt was a member of the board's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) task force, which helped shape an unprecedented community - driven development plan for the sprawling Lower East Side lots.

For nearly two decades, the urban planning consultant has kept a close watch on the borough's historic buildings and landmarks and has become a known name in the civic association community because of it.

Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities.

However since the 1960's the domain of urban planning has expanded to include economic development planning, community social planning and environmental planning.

As farmers in the American West decide what, when and where to plant, and urban water managers plan for water needs in the next year, they want to know how much water their community will get from melting snow in the mountains.

Whitaker will be a key player in implementing the Urban Health Initiative (UHI), the University of Chicago Medical Center's long - range plan to build and maintain a network of partnerships and mutually beneficial relationships throughout the community to provide superior care for patients, advance community - based clinical research and broaden medical education.

# 2 A Pristine Town Filled with Shops and Restaurants: The Rosemary Beach community is known as a planned urban community which is the concept of a place that is more tightly knit together than your average suburban subdivision.

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She goes out every night, teaches spin classes at a health club and talks about her plans to open a restaurant called Moms, which she envisions as a kind of urban refuge / community center.

Students learn research and community - engagement skills more commonly taught in graduate - level urban planning programs than in high school, and produce professional - quality reports incorporating data they have gathered and analyzed.

The NEA also plans to work with the Community Teachers Institute, a privately funded organization whose goal is to recruit and retain teachers for urban school districts.

Among the approaches planned by that organization are working with teacher education programs, developing professional development programs to help teachers deal with issues in urban school systems, and establishing a clearinghouse for organizations that are «home - growing» teachers, Community Teachers Institute executive director Segun Eubanks told Education World.

Because rural school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for large urban districts usually do not work as well in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.

The Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform — a Chicago - based group that works with schools and communities in nine cities — studied how Chicago, Milwaukee, and Seattle implemented instructional improvement plans between 2000 and 2003.

Once we had the project we were then able to draw upon community resources such as Urban Planning lecturers from our local university, Project Managers and Urban Planners (two of whom were female) to provide the girls with insight into these careers and use their expert knowledge.I think the connection to a real world application and using a problem based learning pedagogy has been very important.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

During her seven - year tenure, she gained a national reputation as one of the most effective urban district superintendents in the country for her successful implementation of «Excellence For All,» a comprehensive strategic plan aimed at improving teaching and learning and promoting community engagement.

The Mississippi Department of Education is planning to launch a program that will create a «sustainable pipeline of educators who are members of the community in which they teach, particularly in urban and isolated rural districts.»

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

Strong technical skills, particularly in integrating technology in the classroom to drive academic achievement Demonstrated volunteer or community service At least one (or more) of the following: o National Board Certificationo TAP Experience (sign on bonus for TAP certification) o Core Knowledge Experienceo Experience with Blended Learningo At least two years of successful teaching in an urban environment ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS: An Elementary School teacher is required to perform the following duties: Plan and implement a blended learning environment, providing direct and indirect instruction in the areas of Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, Health, and Mathematics based on state standards Participation in all TAP requirements, focusing on data - driven instruction Create inviting, innovative and engaging learning environment that develops student critical thinking and problem solving skills Prepare students for strong academic achievement and passing of all required assessments Communicate regularly with parents Continually assess student progress toward mastery of standards and keep students and parents well informed of student progress by collecting and tracking data, providing daily feedback, weekly assessments, and occasional parent / teacher conferences Work with the Special Education teachers and administration to serve special needs students in the classroom Attend all grade level and staff meetings and attend designated school functions outside of school hours Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom you are responsible Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff Perform necessary duties including but not limited to morning, lunch, dismissal, and after - school duties Preforms other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal Dress professionally and uphold all school policies