Sentences with phrase «when urban renewal»

A hearing (watch the video) was held last week on City Council member Margaret Chin's legislation that would require the city to notify communities when urban renewal areas are set to expire.

Earlier this year, Council member Chin introduced legislation that would require the city to notify communities when urban renewal areas are about to expire.

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.

Not exact matches

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

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.

The Stogies / Rebels passed into history when the Federal League folded after the 1915 season, and Exposition Park was immediately demolished as part of an early urban renewal project.

«What the Peace Corps is to global development, what Americorps is to local empowerment, we hope Community Builders will be to urban renewal,» Mr. Cuomo said when he announced the initiative.

People on the Lower East Side have been fighting about SPURA since at least 1967, when thousands of homes and businesses were bulldozed in the name of urban renewal.

Movement strategists consider five factors when selecting battlegrounds, she said, and the District met each condition: a legislative and an executive branch controlled by supporters, local political champions for education or urban renewal, local business support, a weakened teacher union, and grassroots backing.

In 1968, when the Armstrong Rubber Factory commissioned the modernist starchitect Marcel Breuer — a once - faculty member at Bauhaus and New Haven's own Yale — to design the building, it was positioned in a highly visible spot to be a gatepost to the city at the time of its mid-century urban renewal.

Artists are rarely considered when it comes to urban renewals.