Sentences with phrase «urban renewal»

It is not too late to write a new chapter in the history of Catholic education — one of urban renewal rather than decline.

Urban renewal projects literally change the face of the city, and 60 plan for areas of the city remain active today.

The astonishing architecture was built during the boom years, after years of the city having no money to invest in urban renewal and infrastructure projects.

The postwar years also were a time when talk of the need for urban renewal programs became far more urgent in the real estate industry.

Our city is experiencing a massive building boom that is focused mainly on urban renewal.

It's different from urban renewal — something instead about rebellion and the efficacy of rebellion as the basis for art.

«My first listing sold under the new brokerage was a property in an area undergoing urban renewal,» she says.

This creative class, he maintained, provides the energy to foster urban renewal and growth.

At any rate, it is exciting to see city planning, green design and urban renewal come together in this way!

It may be five or ten years before the complete vision of the park is realized, but the project is already an inspiring example of urban renewal and land rehabilitation and conservation.

Some other examples of ongoing programs might include scholarship programs, urban renewal projects, performing arts programs, social and educational programs, children's activities, community organizations, and construction projects.

The astonishing architecture was built during the boom years, after years of the city having no money to invest in urban renewal and infrastructure projects.

The actions of government» through zoning boards, urban renewal agencies, public housing authorities, school boards, etc.» inevitably contributed, or so the argument went, to residential segregation.)

Cape Town's campaign for the title highlighted projects used to heal divides between communities — something it has prioritized since the end of apartheid — as well as urban renewal projects and more.

Bill Ryan, Miner's chief of staff, concedes that the job duties of 28 current SURA employees have little or nothing to do with urban renewal work.

Neighborhood is going through urban renewal.

The New York City Council yesterday approved a bill sponsored by local Council member Margaret Chin to require the city to notify communities when urban renewal areas are set to expire.

As New York enacts urban renewal programs in an effort to curb an affordable housing crisis, and homelessness rises to historic levels, Anarchitect's look back at the city's troubled past is startlingly relevant.

Artist Heidrun Holzfeind, designer and artist Damon Rich, and writer Niko Vicario consider the legacy of modernist architecture, urban redevelopment, and self - determination in Newark, New Jersey, in an exhibition of new cross-disciplinary works produced on and around the 58 - acre urban renewal site of Mies van der Rohe's Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments.

In what promises to be a thought - provoking new exhibit organized by architecture and design curator Barry Bergdoll, MoMA is examining more than a half century's worth of urban renewal schemes by architects both famous (Mies Van der Rohe) and unknown (James Fitzgibbon).

Iheanacho, who spoke to newsmen in Owerri, contended that any government urban renewal policy without a human face would not stand the test of time.

Governor Amaechi also told reporters that the over 40 waterfront settlements in Port Harcourt would all be demolished before the completion of his tenure in 2015 under his administration's urban renewal programme.

Robson said urban renewal is setting the scene for more redevelopment.

Their advocacy played a role in kicking off a multimillion - dollar urban renewal effort.

Ben Harper TreeHugger interviewed Ben in a four - part series; check out videos about urban renewal, the «nobility of finding the solution,» the importance of clean water (and surfing), and what hugging trees is all about.

City officials contend that the 75 other SURA employees — who work in the departments of law, neighborhood and business development, or planning and sustainability — are dedicated to urban renewal work.

The city was founded in 1565, making it the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the U.S. «We were into urban renewal when the Pilgrims were landing in Plymouth,» residents say with a laugh.

City officials, accepting millions in federal urban renewal money, had promised a crackdown on vice, but it took the heart of a cop to know exactly what would happen.

The state Legislature created the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency in 1962, along with similar agencies in other cities, so the cities could take advantage of millions of dollars of federal and state urban renewal aid.

The state Legislature created the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency in 1962, along with similar agencies in other cities, so Syracuse could take advantage of millions of dollars of federal and state urban renewal aid.

A State Supreme Court judge starting tomorrow is scheduled to rule on a motion to block the city from rezoning the so - called Broadway Triangle urban renewal area in Brooklyn, a 31 - acre site that activists say has favored politically connected members of the Hasidic community in Williamsburg over African American residents of Bedford Stuyvesant.

The Times just posted a lengthy article examining the roles of Sheldon Silver and former Met Council head William Rapfogel in stopping redevelopment of the Seward Park urban renewal site for decades.

Shanghai's architecture is also worth checking out — the city has undergone a massive urban renewal over the last few decades, and boasts the world's second tallest skyscraper.

With significant urban renewal having been conducted in the last several years, Reading is an even more attractive city than ever.

Consider inner city areas experiencing urban renewal.

With Southport hosting the upcoming 2018 Commonwealth Games, the addition of Meriton Serviced Apartments on Como Crescent has been a part of the largest urban renewal project conducted around the precinct.

While urban renewal projects are important to the revitalization of cityscapes, it is often to the detriment of such classical features.

We cling to financially and congregationally marginal inner - city parishes because urban renewal and development look promising.

«Even though there's no more urban renewal (agency), there's a lot of people that continue to work in that function.

He charts the devastating consequences of the transformation of this gang and others into high - stakes, often violent corporate enterprises engaged in franchised dealing in crack cocaine — an entrepreneurial «black capitalism» that does not figure in conservative programs for urban renewal yet plays a significant role in the economic life of the inner city.

Rooted in Jesus, the last Adam, Christians are still called to carry on God's urban renewal among the restless and the rootless.

From the perspective of the Jewish establishment, it was preferable for Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan to become judenrein rather than to dissent from the cozy liberalism that equated urban renewal and integration with political righteousness.

The pro and con arguments related to urban renewal found regular expression in Century pages during these years, demonstrating that the mainstream had some difficulty determining what to think about these government - funded programs.

Editors supported urban renewal, but lamented the presence of governmental «red tape» and criticized those who saw a way to make a quick dollar at the expense of the poor.