Sentences with phrase «urban problems»

As the global population shifts to cities, solving urban problems represents the key to improving the lives of millions.

Cities worldwide are promoting environmentally «green» roofs to mitigate several urban problems.

Even as municipal governments seek solutions to urban problems such as resource scarcity and pollution, climate change continues to pose a threat to the global environment.

But so far, they look like a good solution to a basic urban problem.

Christianity revitalized life in Greco - Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems.

Biblicists will no doubt reject this approach as being wishy - washy and insufficiently prophetic, just as some activists have criticized Riverside Church's proposed «center for health of the city,» a think tank on urban problems.

City people do not want to discuss only urban problems.

This work is part of an ongoing investigation of urban problems in cities as contradictory and different as Caracas and New York: where I am from, where I live.

Many intractable urban problems are in fact not engineering problems at all, including the ones that most look like it.

The tech industry is better known in its Silicon Valley backyard for contributing to rather than solving urban problems like unaffordable housing and traffic.

«Suburban markets are densifying and developing their own urban problems,» says Jeffrey S. Lyon, CCIM, vice chairman of Kidder, Mathews, & Segner, Inc. / Oncor International in Tacoma, Washington.

Here at Tumml, we support entrepreneurs that are developing innovative solutions to our most pressing urban problems.

Despite promises by event organizers and local bid committees, and expectations by the public that the event will solve some of their daily urban problems, host cities often end up with unwanted or unused facilities and saddled with debts that will take decades to repay.

In the words of one of the architects, «The residents here will be away from the stifling urban problems and will lead a carefree life in a natural and harmonious atmosphere.»

«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.

Bike sharing has been lauded as a solution to common urban problems by clearing road congestion, lowering carbon emissions, improving commuter transit times.

«Try this debut mystery by a journalist for its open treatment of current urban problems, clean prose, and realistic depiction of women working together.

In that effort, in 2014 members of Parliament from Kathmandu launched the Livable Kathmandu campaign, designed to address six major urban problems of Nepal's largest urban center so that others across the country may not have to repeat them.

Poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition have become critical urban problems.

Green infrastructure technologies are becoming increasingly recognized by policy makers as proven and effective ways to solve multiple urban problems.

The urban planning profession, as Vancouver Planning Director Brent Toderian asserted, «has been largely a failure over the past few decades» in dealing with urban problems.

However halting, despite the hiccoughs and errors, it's hard not to be strangely warmed that many churches aspire to replicate the work of the early church, stunningly summarized by Rodney Stark in one of my favorite quotations: «Christianity revitalized life in Greco - Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems.

Moynihan in 1966, appearing before the Senate Government Operations subcommittee during hearings on urban problems

They believed that the solution to urban problems in American life and the Great Depression was for the United States to return to its rural, agricultural roots.

«I came to believe that the lack of new wealth creation was really the root cause of urban problems,» says CitySoft's Nick Gleason.

In 2015, he hired Daniel Doctoroff, the former CEO of Bloomberg LP, to create Sidewalk Labs, a company with the mission of improving «life in cities for everyone through the application of technology to solve urban problems.»

«I came to believe that the lack of new wealth creation was really the root cause of urban problems,» says Gleason.

He wanted to spend his life addressing society's urban problems.

He's also politically extremely savvy and has come up with a very interesting piece of analysis that highlights the Conservative Party's urban problem.

Figures from Schneiderman's office show there were 99 Zombies in Erie County last year, up from 39 the year before and it's not just an urban problem since there are 108 in Orleans County, up from 82 the year before.

The mayor also praised Cuomo's initiatives aimed at reviving the Upstate economy, saying they are first steps toward a broader discussion of urban problems.

When the AIDS epidemic first surfaced in the U.S. 30 years ago, the illness was primarily an urban problem, centered in cities such as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Stray light is not just an urban problem, however.

Sensors and the City: IBM Exhibit Visualizes Today's Urban Problems — and Potential Solutions [Slide Show]

During the late 1990s, he was the chair and director of the National Community Development Policy Analysis Network, which produced the social science synthesis volume, Urban Problems and Community Development.

Professor Edward Banfield brought into his course on «urban problems» a young assistant secretary of labor named Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose enthusiastic explanation of the nascent «war» fired my imagination — and introduced the man who would later become my doctoral adviser, chief mentor, and the source of three riveting jobs.

The story teaches about the migratory behaviors of Canada geese and the urban problems of storm water management — in a format suitable for elementary teaching.

«The large urban districts tend to have highly disproportionate poverty, transiency, and urban problems, which must be dealt with in addition to the regular instructional challenges,» said Patricia Gardara, a research professor and co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

Christianity revitalized life in Greco - Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems.

Fleas are really somewhat more of an urban problem,» says Dr. Morris.

Presentations focused on deepening inequality, the evidence for dangerous climate change, population trends, urban problems, new economic models and more.

The Lab's work draws on diverse fields such as urban planning, architecture, design, engineering, computer science and social science to capture the multi-disciplinary nature of urban problems and deliver research and applications that empower citizens to make choices that result in a more liveable urban condition.

Indeed, given the increasing incidences of downloading and its effects on municipalities, as well as a growing awareness of the extent of urban problems, such as crime and homelessness, it is highly probable that these calls will crescendo.

He was shocked to learn that 3 out of 10 children go hungry every single day and was even more shocked to learn that child hunger isn't just an urban problem — it's a rural one too.