Sentences with phrase «urban space as»

It works for displaying art too: Taiwanese firm B+P Architects created this mirrored urban space as a small art gallery for a local high school in New Taipei City, using a recycled shipping container.

Her interdisciplinary projects combine aspects of anthropology, product design and economics, in order to explore different ways of intervening in the urban space as well as in museums and galleries.

Referencing a quote by Beat Generation poet William S. Burroughs, When You Cut into the Present the Future Leaks Out echoes approaches attributed to cut - up poetry, early hip hop, spoken word, and the sculptural practice of artist Gordon Matta - Clark, who sliced into urban spaces as social commentary.

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The movement could create affordable space for small business, as well as urban fairs, markets, and new housing.

So many bodies are brought in that the morgue workers struggle to identify and bury the dead fast enough to make space for the next batch that arrives with grim regularity, as the city's residents clear up after nine months of urban warfare.

His data and methods were ultimately very useful to urban planners, who discovered many facts, such as people don't really like wide open spaces — they prefer intimate surroundings because they feel more secure.

Social movements have promoted the «right to the city» to denounce urban processes that generate injustices, such as gentrification, privatisation of public spaces, forced evictions and the mistreatment of urban refugees.

Urban Outfitters acquired a pizzeria chain last year as part of a plan to build complexes that feature a variety of its stores — it also owns Anthropologie and Free People — restaurants, and event spaces for concerts and the like.

Amazon's wish list includes an initial 500,000 square feet of space in an urban or suburban area, with access to highways, airports and public transportation, as well as a qualified technology workforce in the area.

As designers, city planners, and architects look to make urban spaces more functional, attractive, and inclusive, what new trends are emerging and what lessons can be learned?

As a result, we are seeing a surge in urban spaces that are more flexible, sustainable, and smarter than ever before.

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Dubbed as Red Dot design, it's very compact and space - saving for every urban kitchen.

This could be because warmer urban temperatures may not be enough to overcome other adverse conditions such as limited water supply and rooting space in cities.

Learning how to optimize these spaces is an increasingly urgent problem: As of 2008, the urban environment has become simply «the environment» for the majority of the world's population.

Just like mountains and valleys, buildings and pavement create their own distinctive environments — and none so distinctive as urban street canyons, the spaces between high - rises and above the streets that run between them.

Urban green spaces such as parks, gardens, and urban river networks deliver ecosystem services to cities reducing flood risk, cooling urban micro-climates, and creating recreational spUrban green spaces such as parks, gardens, and urban river networks deliver ecosystem services to cities reducing flood risk, cooling urban micro-climates, and creating recreational spurban river networks deliver ecosystem services to cities reducing flood risk, cooling urban micro-climates, and creating recreational spurban micro-climates, and creating recreational spaces.

In a study published in October 2009 in the Journal of Mammalogy, Gehrt watched the movement of 181 radio - collared coyotes and noted their preference for natural lands within urban and suburban spaces, such as city parks and residential yards.

After years of watching engineers model traffic flow with advanced physics to alleviate jams, a team of urban planners called Shared Space have adopted a simple solution based on a zoological concept known as the risk compensation effect.

As part of the experiment, eight volunteers aged 65 and over (from a wider sample of 95 people aged 65 and over) wore a mobile EEG head - set which recorded their brain activity when walking between busy and green urban spaces.

In the year after people moved from less green to greener urban spaces, they experienced a significant boost in mental health markers such as mood and confidence.

(Some planners — such as Space Syntax in London and the University of Strathclyde's Urban Design Studies Unit, of which Strano is a member — are already measuring connectivity to optimize urban desiUrban Design Studies Unit, of which Strano is a member — are already measuring connectivity to optimize urban desiurban designs.)

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban populations.311, 303

While lack of space (such as in an urban or apartment setting) usually motivates the vertical approach, there are many other advantages to this creative way of gardening:

«Even in an urban environment, proximity to green spaces provides a much richer population of colonizing microbiota versus urbanized environments such as parking lots.»

If you haven't heard of this, Urban dictionary defines Man Cave as «A room, space, corner or area of a dwelling that is specifically reserved for a male person to be in a solitary condition, away from the rest of the household in order to work, play, involve himself in certain hobbies, activities without interruption.

It recognizes the importance of ports as liminal places where marine and urban spaces converge, producing a unique site of socio - cultural exchange that reinforced and challenged identities, perceptions and boundaries.

It recognizes the importance of ports as liminal places where marine and urban spaces converge, producing a unique site of socio - cultural exchange that reinforced and challenged identities, perceptions and boundaries.

As urban land becomes scarcer and more expensive, buildings and spaces previously overlooked are being recycled for housing.

Its narrow timeframe and juddering shootout finale notwithstanding, in fact, «' 71» calls no film to mind so much as Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama «The Pianist» in its dramatic defamiliarization of urban space, and its tight focus on a single character's sensory experience of his surroundings amid broader conflict.

Another interesting program was Our Space, a fascinating exploration of the city - as - protagonist, whereby a swimming pool in Brooklyn (Pool Party, Beth Aala, 2010) disbanded car yards (Foreign Parts, Véréna Paravel, 2010) and Melbourne's own controversial Triangle Project (The Triangle Wars, Rosie Jones, 2011) were all sites for interrogating the politics of urban gentrification, economic inequity and community empowerment in the new millennium.

On this scale, soap opera and comedy skit bytes can only go so far, and Infinity War manages a succession of double - page - spread awe that sells the cosmic saga: a marvellous trompe l'oeil shot as a camera move reveals the sorry state of Thanos's rebel adoptive daughter Nebula, the by - now - obligatory mass urban destructions and battles with monster hordes on open planes, and gorgeously imaginative outer - space vistas.

The fluidity is still there in the supposedly «classical» In the Mood for Love, as is the merging of emotional and physical (meaning urban) space.

The good news there, said Tim Nicolette, 38, who took over last August as executive director of the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association, is that there's still space for some 10,000 new charter seats in urban districts.

As places to play and learn and as public spaces where people come together, parks are essential to the health of urban communitieAs places to play and learn and as public spaces where people come together, parks are essential to the health of urban communitieas public spaces where people come together, parks are essential to the health of urban communities.

This means that all schools large and small, urban and rural, public and private, brick and mortar or virtual, need to provide access to teaching expertise in the library as well as best resources, technologies and physical and virtual learning spaces to support learner needs as they evolve.

As for the exterior, the Encore's undulating lines and tall - boy proportions may look odd in America's wide open spaces, but they should appear just right in the crowded urban environs of Shanghai and Beijing, which is probably far more important.

As Mercedes sees it, in high - density urban and suburban areas, traffic barriers will fall and vehicles will literally occupy the same space as pedestrianAs Mercedes sees it, in high - density urban and suburban areas, traffic barriers will fall and vehicles will literally occupy the same space as pedestrianas pedestrians.

As an urban cruiser with the storage space of an SUV, the Chevrolet Trax is truly an outstanding model.

Whereas some larger rivals feel unwieldy in tight urban spaces, the Tucson navigates the concrete jungle as nimbly as a compact hatchback, and it keeps its cool around sharp turns, too.

But bigger trucks, such as the Ford Excursion and Chevrolet Suburban sport - utility models, require parking lanes nearly 10 feet wide; and that's putting the squeeze on the availability of space for smaller vehicles, according to The Dimensions of Parking, an Urban Land Institute publication.

Handling has one nick: if you do a lot of urban driving and need to spin the wheel for three - point turns toward opposite - lane parking spaces, then you'll notice that the steering loads up with a gummy feel in the first turn - and - a-half as you aim for those spots.

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The Urban Cruiser is based on the same platform as the Yaris supermini, but thanks to its squared - off design there's plenty of space inside for four adults and their luggage.

The 4,133 - millimetre - long, 1,789 - millimetre - wide and 1,549 - millimetre - tall MINI John Cooper Works Countryman is equally adept when it comes to crossing the boundaries of urban mobility, and its generous levels of space and seating comfort encourage the driver and passengers to admire the qualities of this versatile performance athlete over longer journeys as well.

Five functions support the driver in urban traffic: Crossing assist detects critical crossing traffic in front of the car; the Audi pre sense 360 ° system detects collision hazards; rear cross traffic assist monitors slow reversing, such as exiting a parallel parking space.

Several packages were created for the personalization of the smart forfour such as the Urban Style, Cool and Audio, LED & Sensor, Storage Space and the smart BRABUS tailor made package.

But just as e-signage presents an opportunity for a city's development, it is not without its challenges: to enable a city's evolution into a truly smart, and therefore sustainable and green urban living space, digital signs should support energy saving features, be implementable even at the most demanding of locations, power grid or no, and feature superb visibility in all light conditions.

Statistics Canada has identified the high cost of child care, low availability of regulated childcare spaces and lack of elder care in urban centres such as Metro Vancouver as factors keeping some women from full participation in the job market.