Sentences with phrase «urban renaissance»

"Urban renaissance" refers to a period of positive transformation and revitalization in cities. It represents the renewal and growth of urban areas, including improvements in infrastructure, culture, economy, and quality of life for its residents. Full definition
Today, the sixty - eight year old is the managing director at the Energy Probe Research Foundation, while also serving as executive director of its Energy Probe and Urban Renaissance Institute divisions.
Silvercup renovated an existing 115,000 square warehouse on Locust Avenue into a production facility, which will create 400 production jobs, Diaz said the Bronx is now a symbol of urban renaissance, not urban blight and decay.
Urban Renaissance Agency will be heading the trials.
Printed on Entrada rag, First Place, 2013 is inspired by Urban Renaissance: The Happiness Effect, 2009, a site - specific piece created by the artist that has adorned the Bass Museum of Art café walls since his solo museum exhibition in 2009.
Even as its groovy formula for urban renaissance is repeated in cities around the world — often with explicit reference to the original — the back - to - basics affectations of Brooklynization verge on cliché.
Urbanist and part - time Miami Beach resident Richard Florida, whose creative - class theory helped popularize and propel the U.S. urban renaissance 15 years ago, has a new book that explores the dark side of the phenomenon.
With its plum location within the Historic Napa Mill situated right on the Napa River, guests of this waterfront hotel are in walking distance to a burgeoning urban renaissance scene replete with restaurants, shopping and, of course, wine tasting.
Part of the Rockbund Urban Renaissance project, Rockbund Art Museum (RAM)(20 Huqiu Road) is one of the pioneer contemporary art museums in China.
The new service is a joint venture with NTT East Corp and Urban Renaissance Agency.
According to articles in the New Yorker and Business Week, churches are leading an urban renaissance.
Bloomberg used his last major speech as mayor to declare that an «urban renaissance» is well underway — and to warn it could be undermined if his successor doesn't stand up to municipal unions and halt the «explosion» of pension and benefit costs.
Hammond is a co-producer of the film Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, which chronicles a clash between mid-20th-century urban planning methods, and chronicles how they relate to today's urban renaissance.
MUSEUM OF PRINTING HISTORY: Urban Renaissance, featuring works by John Biggers and Charles Criner, and Bound by Tradition, featuring rare illustrated books and prints, through Sunday.
As the urban renaissance continues, development pressures grow on local and municipal parkland.
Beginning with a single division devoted to domestic energy policy (Energy Probe), it has grown into a hydra - like body that, among other things, addresses foreign aid and investment (Probe International), government policies relating to Canadian natural resources (Environment Probe), and regulatory matters that affect cities (the Urban Renaissance Institute).
But in recent years the city has regained its footing, experiencing an urban renaissance powered by a series of projects that have dramatically improved the quality of life of the 18 million people that make the city their home.
Efforts to renovate the area and bring about an urban renaissance have been ongoing since the 80s, and in spite of ups and downs there are concrete results to suggest that the haters might just be out of touch with the real Cleveland.
But now, New Haven, Hartford and Stamford are trying to lure retailers and residents in hopes of sparking an urban renaissance.
The Pittsburgh location is a downtown store that city officials had hoped would spur an urban renaissance...
«Atlanta has the benefit of being one of the most affordable markets in the country, and is undergoing an urban renaissance with new public infrastructure providing attractive opportunities for employers seeking to lure young urbanites,» Terrazas says.
An urban renaissance has been taking place with neighborhoods that are near urban centers becoming more desirable, Phillips said.
Sen: As you referenced, the «urban renaissance» in the early 2010s was as much about the particular circumstances of that era as anything.
An urban renaissance had been building in cities for 20 years and crime had fallen, and thanks to an influx of young, single, well - educated workers, cities boomed.
Meehan: While the focus has recently been on the urban renaissance, young people will by and large follow the path of marriage and a desire for a house with a yard.
Seattle's urban renaissance is relatively young.
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