Sentences with phrase «which urban form»

«The overall goal of our study was to clarify which urban form — sprawl or more - dense development — is most appropriate for UHI mitigation,» said the study's lead author Neil Debbage, doctoral student in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences» department of geography.

Not exact matches

Paolo Soleri has conceived of an alternative form of urban life in which the architectural ecology — arcology for short — would promote both justice and the environment.

Among the most provocative is that by Daniel V. A. Olson, which takes issue with the notion that modern urban life weakens all forms of religion.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Catholic migration to rural areas was largely confined to the North and the West, and largely dates to the 19th century, after which further Catholic migration to the U.S. was largely to large urban areas, (like all other forms of immigration to the U.S).

Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed.»

ALBANY — Taking a scythe to one of the weedier corners of the state's administrative garden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed,» according to the governor's release.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is set to reward school children who partake in the assembly's «Me and my tree competition», which forms part of the Kumasi Urban Forestry Project.

Now, for the first time, plague is hitting urban areas, including Antananarivo, the capital, and the port city Toamasina, and it has taken an unusual and especially menacing form: pneumonic plague, which is spread from person to person through coughing or sneezing.

Although some reports suggest that nutrition trends in the northeast have been improving, 23 and others are documenting the rise in obesity in the middle class, 24 chronic malnutrition remains endemic and has advanced from the northeast's poorest rural areas to the urban peripheries.25 The standard food intake pattern in Brazil is based on rice or manioc, beans, coffee, bread, beef and, increasingly, sugar in the form of soft drinks and fruit juices, 26 none of which (except for beef liver) are noteworthy for their vitamin A content.

«An Urban Legend is usually a (good / captivating / titillating / engrossing / incredible / worrying) story that has had a wide audience, is circulated spontaneously, has been told in several forms, and which many have chosen to believe (whether actively or passively) despite the lack of actual evidence to substantiate the story.»

Not to be outdone, the charter school lobby group ConnCAN continued to lament the changes made to the Commissioner's Network which was Malloy's proposal to allow Stefan Pryor, his Commissioner of Education (and the lawyer who helped form and direct Achievement First for eight years) to take over up to 25 urban schools.

One of the few investment forms which still promises gains without unreasonable risks right now seems to be real estate, because real estate prices in German urban areas (not so in rural areas!)

In urban environments, dog fighting typically takes the form of «brawls» or «rumbles», which can be characterized as impromptu contests between two dogs.

We will continue our trek through the long descending stone steps that will take us to Wiñaywayna (2650m), an impressive Inca complex formed by an agricultural center with numerous terraces, a religious sector and an urban sector, near which our camp is located.

We will start our trekking visiting the archaeological complex of Chachabamba (2150m), located very close to the control point, then we will take an upward path of 8 km (5 miles), which will take us to the archaeological complex of Wiñaywayna (2650m / 8692ft), After a walk of 4 hours approximately we can appreciate this impressive complex formed by an agricultural center with numerous terraces, a religious sector and an urban sector.

Santiago de Cuba is heralded as the birthplace of the Cuban Revolution thanks to its most famous citizen, Frank Pais, who formed an urban alliance which became instrumental in the success of Castro's Revolution.

While Ma - Ma and her gang are facing down the greatest threat they'll ever encounter and Anderson is going through a thoroughly stressful assessment, the calm, collected and cool way in which Urban plays the role creates the sensation that this is just another day in the office for Dredd, a slice of his everyday life presented in movie form.

On top of the two paid car packs releasing in October the developers will be releasing a new patch to coincide with the «Revenge of the Battle - Cars» content which will include two new map variants in the form of Urban Station (Night) and Utopia Coliseum (Dusk) as well as new music and community flags and the usual further optimization.

It explores the role of vernacular forms in some 40 works by more than two dozen contemporary artists, which run the aesthetic gamut: the hand - crafted work of Aaron Spangler juxtaposes with Lari Pittman's carnivalesque day - glo paintings; Marc Swanson's glittering trophy heads with Rachel Harrison's urban relics.

With artists Genpei Akasegawa and Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Takamatsu formed the collective Hi Red Center (1963 - 64), which carried out actions in Tokyo to call attention to issues faced in the postwar urban climate.

Taking place this October and restituting the architectural ensemble formed by the Grand Palais, the Palais d'Antin, the Petit Palais and Avenue Winston Churchill, FIAC 2017 will present an extended global outreach, reaffirming new urban geography which premiered last year.

The work made me think of an urban set design into which the forms fly from the wings.

Inside the gallery, in its second room, drawings, maquettes of Wilson's past works, along with the intervention using the cut up household furniture which has been reassembled again into a form reminiscent of an urban landscape on a micro scale, will be presented.

Through his work, Hlobo expresses an interest in the commingling of cultural dichotomies: traditional vs. colonial, rural vs. urban, child vs. adult, straight vs. queer, which are stitched together to form unexpected new tapestries.

This new Hatje Cantz publication emphasizes the influence of Arte Povera on Rhode's aesthetic, whose creative dialogue also formed during his meeting with the gallery Tucci Russo and his early collaborative efforts with photographer Paolo Mussat Sartor, in which he transformed urban landscapes and interior spaces into imaginary worlds, as two - dimensional renderings become the subject of three - dimensional interactions by a sole protagonist (usually played by the artist or by an actor inhabiting the role of artist).

Forming a plant - animal - human trilogy with Edible Estates (est. 2005), a series of front - yard food gardens, and Animal Estates (est. 2008), initiatives for urban wildlife architecture, Domestic Integrities focuses on the interior environments of humans and the ways in which local resources are digested into their dwellings.

Her artworks which incorporate stitching, drawing, painting as well as video and sound installations, construct forms of confrontational interactions that tend to manipulate borders, gender dynamics and ferocious urban transformations.

His spectacular frenzies of color and form become visual analogues of the very urban landscape from which he scavenged his materials — poetic visual kaleidoscopes of the communities and underground economies to which Bradford's inherently referential source material gestures, and the volatile emotional admixture of desires, concerns and vitality that make up the complex socio - economic layers of Bradford's worlds.»

Forming in 2009, the crew has been painting some very nice productions which is really upping the bar with graffiti and urban art in South Africa.

This involved working with found and everyday materials anything from old bus tickets to newsprint to pram wheels, to create collages which were both beautiful arrangements of colour and form, and visual narratives of the urban environment.

An important influence on modern art painting in the United States, Precisionism was an American movement (also referred to as Cubist Realism) whose focus was modern industry and urban landscapes, characterized by the realistic depiction of objects but in a manner which also highlighted their geometric form.

With these marginalised urban zones, my choices were based on real architectural elements, omnipresent in their richness and their diversity, which form part of the particular psycho - geography of the space and of the non-space — a form that contains a physical, psychological and conceptual infrastructure that in turn constitutes these urban worlds.

He was born in 1979 in Rome, he grew up in the Writing field and formed as an art historian, he decided to mix his urban art knowledge with his humanistic studies ideating and creating projects in which art and cities collaborate for a cultural innovation.

Encompassing the various forms in which he works, this survey will also trace the aesthetic and conceptual concerns that run throughout his practice, such as his use of permutations and his interest in the demise of nature that accompanies urban development.

These include permanent and temporary projects that refer specifically to particular buildings, or which emerge at sites in urban space in the form of designs for buses and posters.

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.

This was a form of installation art consisting of photographs and plans of site locations (mostly derelict urban areas), which were displayed along with earth, rocks and other geological refuse collected from the sites.

Encompassing the various forms in which Ibrahim works, this survey traces the aesthetic and conceptual concerns that run throughout the artist's practice, such as his use of permutations and his disquiet about the demise of nature that accompanies urban development.

From her early portraits of queer subcultures to her expansive urban landscapes, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in which they are defined.

This re-appropriation of urban waste is another form of repair that allowed for the construction of free, minimalist, and highly functional residential units, the measurements of which inspired a generation of architects like Le Corbusier and Roland Simounet.

Her urban landscapes, which combine nature — in the form of people, plants, and animals — and architecture together, provide the exhibition with its title.

On the other hand he never felt entirely at home with the ideals of the Barbizon School, the members of which saw Romantic idealization of the countrysite as a form of escapism from urban banality, and he remained more faithful to the French Classical tradition than to the English or Dutch schools.

Constantly working on new pieces, Bordalo II is now in Lodz, Poland where he was invited by the good lads from Urban Forms Festival.The Portuguese street art maestro was given a large building to create one of his unique installations which are built using trash and found materials.

To propose an adapted urban form in the dense urban surroundings, which participates in achieving an internal summer comfort in one of the hottest regions, while having a limited energy consumption

But to truly change the clean transport paradigm, Tesla is looking to a few additional options, such as a pickup truck, an electric big rig or semi (which is said to be under development), and a «high passenger - density urban transport» solution (perhaps in the form of autonomous electric buses).

Iowa City is adjacent to the town of Coralville and surrounds the town of University Heights, with which it forms a contiguous urban area.

These men were all fairly modern, urban, and well - educated, which biased their responses in a direction of more non-traditional forms of (heterosexual) relationships where men and women are equal partners.

They're most commonly formed for condominiums and planned urban developments (PUDs), a category which includes suburban communities.