Sentences with phrase «urban renewal work»

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.

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Lately, as a director of the Citizens Union National Bank, he has been working on an urban renewal project that will clear the way for the bank's new building, which will be the tallest in town.

Now that the Lagos State Government has made known its intention to reposition the hitherto ineffectual Lagos State Public Works Corporation, with the acquisition of some road construction machines for urban renewal, I wish to use this medium to draw the attention of the agency to the deplorable state of roads in the Ajao Estate -LSB-...]

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

Often referred to as «slum clearing,» urban renewal programs helped developers buy up land that often housed working class families and demolish their homes to rebuild newer, more expensive developments.

This year, the work of the eight finalists draws on themes of urban renewal and gentrification, power struggles, and a more surprising common undercurrent, Nazism.

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.

Living Modern Heidrun Holzfeind, Damon Rich, Niko Vicario Curator: Laura Barlow 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.

Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as Los Angeles» housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Senga Nengudi spoke to the dislocation of migration, Los Angeles» urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility.

Urban renewal and its challenges became an increasingly important theme in the works through this intense concentration on a specific place.

Lyon's documentary series became the model for visual work addressing the aging infrastructure of American cities and the perils of the 1960s policy of urban renewal through demolition.

Intellectually, frontiers interest him, from urban gang territories demarcated in graffiti to the charting of newly discovered stars and planets; in his work, Ruby tests formal limits, marking the edges of the canvas and limning the boundaries between creation, destruction, and renewal.

The first 1983 version of the exhibition - which included art by Conner, Wallace Berman, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick and George Herms - pulled work from 1955 and beyond that spoke to a»60s flight to the suburbs and the so - called urban renewal that destroyed large swaths of the Fillmore.

«The Pullman neighborhood of Chicago not only has a rich industrial heritage that serves as a fitting backdrop to an inspiring new model for urban renewal and sustainable manufacturing, there is a strong spirit and work ethic among this community.»