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Sara VanDerBeek has put together an elegant and mysterious installation inspired by urban transformation in Cleveland; photographs partly obscured by a zigzagging partition show us mysterious details of the cityscape.

Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, on view now in Singapore, offers an insight into the development of contemporary Chinese photography and video in the last 10 years, at the same time, examines the rapid urban transformations in China.

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They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

It has been the means for the transformation of many socially marginal groups in the U.S., from poor rural whites in Methodist and Assemblies of God churches to rural and dislocated urban blacks in Baptist and Church of God in Christ churches.

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.

And while the strains of the post-Conciliar years (which were also years of tremendous demographic transformation on the American urban / suburban landscape) have tested that claim as never before, there remain, in this, the sesquicentennial year of the erection of the diocese, many impressive signs of vitality in a local church that has been distinguished for its rich ethnic diversity, its identification of parish and neighborhood, its impressive clerical and lay leadership, its self - conscious social and political liberalism, and its sense of itself as the «lead diocese» in matters ranging from liturgical renewal to Christian social action.

The makeover of Oshodi will cause you to marvel at the transformation that can take place even in densely populated urban space when there is the political will and determined creativity to give the people the infrastructure they deserve.

The speed of transformation is shown in the mountainous West, the Great Plains and the urban East.

In addition to being a master of the asana practice, Eddie is transforming society as co-founder of Urban Yogis New York, an organization dedicated to helping the youth in the Baisley housing project create profound personal and social transformation through yogIn addition to being a master of the asana practice, Eddie is transforming society as co-founder of Urban Yogis New York, an organization dedicated to helping the youth in the Baisley housing project create profound personal and social transformation through yogin the Baisley housing project create profound personal and social transformation through yoga.

She directed a documentary - narrative hybrid short film Uprooting From the City about the urban transformation and gentrification of the Romani neighborhoods in the first pilot location in Istanbul.

Wayne Urban, professor of education and an expert on teacher unions, notes that NEA president Robert Chase gave a pivotal address on behalf of new unionism at the National Press Club in 1997, calling for «the transformation of his organization away from the adversarial stance institutionalized in collective bargaining toward one that was more professional.»

In a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districtIn a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districtin a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districtin extra aid and programs to its poor urban districts.

Project ACHIEVE is a comprehensive school transformation and improvement program that has been implemented in thousands of urban, suburban, and rural districts across the country since 1990.

Urban Transformations: Youth Organizing in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC Kohei Ishihara, January 2007, Funders» Collaborative on Youth Organizing

The first year is a paid fellowship that provides aspiring school transformation principals with the opportunity to step back and develop a high - impact strategy and plan for creating a high - achieving urban public school — in the year prior to the first year as a principal.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is a national philanthropy established by entrepreneur Eli Broad that invests in the bold and innovative transformation of K - 12 urban public education in the U.S. so that students of all backgrounds are academically prepared for college, careers and life.

As a middle and high school principal, Principal Kafele led the transformation of four different New Jersey urban schools, including «The Mighty» Newark Tech, which went from a low - performing school in need of improvement to national recognition, which included U.S. News and World Report Magazine recognizing it three times as one of America's best high schools.

The T3 Initiative was initially piloted in three «turnaround schools» in the Boston Public Schools and has since expanded to other urban, high - need schools in need of rapid transformation.

Based on the knowledge of urban morphology, this study analyses how human systems have affected the transformation of natural water processes in the Kaoping River Delta.

«Greg is recognized as a global leader in urban park transformation and renewal,» said Colin Lind, chair of the Conservancy's Board of Trustees.

«Backed by its distinctive positioning around well - being, The Westin Singapore will play a significant role in the transformation of the Marina Bay development, as we inject a unique and revitalizing experience into this urban oasis.»

Founded in 1994, Sincere Holdings Group has established a presence in key provinces and cities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei and Shandong, specialising in integrated services such as the development of real estate, the operation of urban complexes, urban transformation and lifestyle service.

Liu Wei (b. 1972, and lives and works in Beijing, China) explores 21st century socio - political concepts such as the contradictions of contemporary society and the transformation of developing cities and the urban landscape.

Jonathan LeVine Gallery is proud to announce its program during Art Basel - Miami 2010, Urban Alchemists — a group exhibition and public mural project presented in association with Tony Goldman, art patron and leader in the restoration and transformation of declining historic districts into thriving cultural destinations.

This substantial transformation of the landscape at Laguna Gloria will improve the riparian community along the Colorado River and provide habitat to wide - ranging wildlife, contributing to the health of the urban environment in Austin.

The exhibition also features publications produced in the Hudson Valley on rural and urban food infrastructures installed in the CCS Bard Bulletin Board, and a presentation of objects from the CCS Bard library and Special Collections that deal with the transformation of landscapes via farming, architecture, ecology, mapping, and food culture.

Focusing on the developments of gentrification and on how community is constructed in this particular neighborhood, the feminine cinematographic gaze engages with the social and historical fabric of the urban geography, the spatial legacies of Apartheid, the class and gender based diversity of life experience and the current transformations in Jeppestown.

In No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond, American architect Michael Maltzan traces the transformations that have taken place in the city of Los Angeles since the early 1990In No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond, American architect Michael Maltzan traces the transformations that have taken place in the city of Los Angeles since the early 1990in Los Angeles and Beyond, American architect Michael Maltzan traces the transformations that have taken place in the city of Los Angeles since the early 1990in the city of Los Angeles since the early 1990s.

Liu Wei (born 1972, Beijing) is one of the most talented Chinese visual artists, widely known for his paintings, sculptures and installation works which explore contradictions of modern societies and the transformation of the urban landscape in developing cities in the post-Mao era of China's rapid urbanization.

Whether documenting political movements, queer subcultures, or urban transformation, Opie's images of contemporary life comprise a portrait of our time in America, which she often considers in relation to a discourse of opposition.

The rural and urban landscape reflect the mental state of society, in these works I approach scenarios which for me have an «anonymous» aspect, sites that have lost their identity and express disinterest, transformation and the failures of ideologies.»

In this exhibition catalogue, experts, art theoreticians, anthropologists and urban scholars from Libya, Egypt and Syria report on artistic interventions in their countries and critically reflect on the role of art in periods of political transformatioIn this exhibition catalogue, experts, art theoreticians, anthropologists and urban scholars from Libya, Egypt and Syria report on artistic interventions in their countries and critically reflect on the role of art in periods of political transformatioin their countries and critically reflect on the role of art in periods of political transformatioin periods of political transformation.

Examples include Patio Taller, a performance space and grass - roots educational center in the industrial zone of San Antón that organizes a «theater of the oppressed» to address issues affecting their community; the collective transformation of the hillside town of El Cerro, Naranjito into a living mural that is socially and artistically charged; intergenerational workshops known as Escuelas Oficios (Trade Schools) that are recuperating artisanal traditions threatened by modernization and colonialism, such as weaving, lace making, and basketry; the revitalization of blighted properties and neighborhoods through participatory urban design of community centers, public parks, urban gardens, and food cooperatives; and the aesthetic and physical reclaiming of public space through movement by artist Noemí Segarra.

Sculptor and installation artist Roger Hiorns is primarily interested in materials and convolutions to affect transformations on found objects, social encounters and urban situations.

The swift transformation of Chinese culture is reflected in the work of each of the participating artists, who comment on contemporary Chinese urban life with intelligence, wit, apprehension and nostalgia.

The swift transformation of Chinese culture is reflected in the work of each of these represented artists who comment on contemporary Chinese urban life with intelligence, wit, foreboding and nostalgia.

The works in the show contain familiar elements from city landscapes, such as scaffolding, urban detritus, abandoned buildings, and public gardens, all addressing the hurried transformation of cityscapes closely related to gentrification.

Against this backdrop, the exhibition Urban Abstract focuses on the artistic recognition and experimental transformation of such patterns in the urban rUrban Abstract focuses on the artistic recognition and experimental transformation of such patterns in the urban rurban realm.

In Vitturi's work, photography is conceived as a space of transformation, where the various disciplines come together in the representation of an ever more complex urban realitIn Vitturi's work, photography is conceived as a space of transformation, where the various disciplines come together in the representation of an ever more complex urban realitin the representation of an ever more complex urban reality.

If in the first instance she poses questions about the current state of the construction, development, use, and decay of spaces that are apparently peripheral to the city, in the second she manages to provoke a dialogue about the different elements that make up the physical reality of the urban landscape, in its constant transformation through demolitions, excavations, construction materials, and contemporary ruins.

On the one hand, Almarcegui focuses her attention on abandoned spaces and structures in the process of transformation; on the other she investigates the different connections that can be established between architecture and the urban order.

This swift transformation of Chinese culture is reflected in the work of each of the artists, who comment on contemporary Chinese urban life with intelligence, wit, foreboding and nostalgia.»

It focuses on the experimental transformation of shapes and surfaces that make up the urban landscape, from which the three artists draw their inspiration from; Fabio Petani with his refined balance between organic forms and geometry, Nelio through a dense texture of colour fields that he uses to compose his name, and Heiko Zahlmann, with a long and vaunted past as a graffiti writer, evolves his style in three - dimensional works, in which painting, drawing and architecture interact with one another.

In this transformation of the «intimate proportions» of the woman's body into landscape - like abstract composition, de Kooning pursued a strategy similar to that of his friend Franz Kline, who used an opaque projector to enlarge details of his own urban genre paintings into the mural - scale, black - and - white abstractions that became his signature achievement» (J. Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning, New York, 2014, p. 132).

In her recent work she has been questioning the meaning of «absence» within the collective memory and addressing urban transformation, which causes total disappearance, destruction, isolation and otherness within the framework of communities, history, time, space and memory.

Song Dong, a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installations, performance, photography and video has been involved in many solo and group exhibitions around the world, covering a range of themes and topics including his relationship with his family and their experience of living in modern China (the topic of his widely exhibited installation Waste Not), the transformation of China's urban environment and the impermanence of change.

In Vitturi's process, photography in conceived as a space of transformation, where different disciplines merge together to represent the complexities of changing urban environmentIn Vitturi's process, photography in conceived as a space of transformation, where different disciplines merge together to represent the complexities of changing urban environmentin conceived as a space of transformation, where different disciplines merge together to represent the complexities of changing urban environments.

In the two London exhibitions, a series of works in motion on screen, printing and sculptures are presented, exploring the imagination of the city and its urban transformationIn the two London exhibitions, a series of works in motion on screen, printing and sculptures are presented, exploring the imagination of the city and its urban transformationin motion on screen, printing and sculptures are presented, exploring the imagination of the city and its urban transformations.

In the Whitney project for example — in which black vinyl sheets with white text will cover fencing around the excavated site and the roofs of trailers within it — her slogans will speak to the transformation of urban landscapes like the ultratrendy meatpacking districIn the Whitney project for example — in which black vinyl sheets with white text will cover fencing around the excavated site and the roofs of trailers within it — her slogans will speak to the transformation of urban landscapes like the ultratrendy meatpacking districin which black vinyl sheets with white text will cover fencing around the excavated site and the roofs of trailers within it — her slogans will speak to the transformation of urban landscapes like the ultratrendy meatpacking district.

The main themes in the Hendrik Czakainski's body of work are urban transformations under conditions of globalization, industrialization and various demographic movements.