Sentences with phrase «which urban places»

In effect, I was seeking to capture the ways in which urban places become spaces and vise versa.»

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Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

One of the things that we have been seeing is that with more urban development, which leaves less space for water to go, and when water falls on concrete and streets it has [fewer] places to go rather than it falling on a wetland.

I think one way to mitigate the pain for exurban areas in to put in place a land value tax as well, which would also tend to hit the urban hippies harder than the suburban middle class.

This strong growth - driven by both occupancy and rate improvement and which was even stronger at upper upscale, urban, and luxury properties - comes at a time when economic data points have called into question the near - term sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery and would appear to demonstrate that as yet no reigns have been placed on corporate travel.

Cox pointed to the significant work of hermeneutics which needed to take place in order to translate the gospel message from the biblical rural environment to an urban one.

In the first place, his interest in history as the history of suffering and his commitment to solidarity with the oppressed have always run counter to the ignoring of peasants15 and women and the concentration of attention upon urban — industrial development which have characterized most of those who share his focus upon «history».

Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

Out of these shared convictions and the culture of building they nourished, the architects and patrons of these cities created urban environments and landscapes that were not only extraordinarily beautiful but that also acted as theaters of memory and hope, places that simultaneously referred to and grounded citizens in their origins, the common destiny for which they longed, and the virtues necessary for success in their individual and collective journeys through life.

Being a mom - to - be in the city is certainly not without its challenges — not the least of which is finding a place to put all that cool urban baby gear that is slowly accumulating in my NY - sized apartment.

Instead of having to use your feet to lock the wheels in place, which can be difficult, the Thule Urban Glide Double Jogging Stroller has a hand - activated brake.

Nature offers many benefits to minority youth, which is why the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum places the highest priority on taking nature and science education programs to underserved communities, and on creating greater awareness and opportunities to experience urban nature.

All of which has placed incredible development pressures on rural - urban fringe communities.

«What is a middle - class salary in one place is not middle class in another place,» said Kim Rueben, senior fellow at the Washington - based Tax Policy Center, which is affiliated with the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.

The Bronx Council on the Arts, located at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), hosts three exhibitions through May 7: In the City: Memory, Places and Spaces, which includes works on migration and urban planning; Transmit - Transit: Hatuey Ramos - Fermin @ The Project Room, featuring traveling in the city and ethnic diversity; and Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear, featuring construction of hats in unorthodox ways.

# 2 A Pristine Town Filled with Shops and Restaurants: The Rosemary Beach community is known as a planned urban community which is the concept of a place that is more tightly knit together than your average suburban subdivision.

One of our favorite setting sprays is the Urban Decay All Nighter Long Lasting Makeup Setting Spray, which keeps makeup looking like it was freshly - applied all day long, keeping everything from eyeshadow to bronzer in place for up to 16 hours.

Some of my favorite places for great priced rugs are Woven in Vintage, which is a local company who has some of the most unique rugs I've ever seen, Urban Outfitters, and Serena and Lily for great neutral options.

The Greater Bendigo municipality is home to around 100,000 while the city has a steadily growing urban population of about 80,000 people which places it as the fourth largest regional centre in Victoria after Ballarat, Geelong and Melbourne.

The rest of «Freedomland» deals with what happens when the urban housing projects of Dempsy, N.J. — the town in which the alleged crime took place — are sealed off by the police of the neighboring, predominantly white town, Gannon, as a way of smoking out the perpetrator.

With two exceptions — Topsy - Turvy and Vera Drake (which takes place in the 1950s)-- Leigh's films are set in contemporary urban or suburban Britain and might be described as social dramas, although even at their darkest they have a comic edge.

Well, the problem is that the infamous lecture never took place, and has long been dismissed by academics and experts, some African - American, as an urban legend which first surfaced circa 1993.

That the most exciting bits of Black Panther have to do with world - building — the futuristic costuming, the urban design, the smooth assimilation of the technological into the everyday — point to another problem with the CGI - driven mass destruction template of science fiction: it doesn't account for the ways in which the cultural place of technology — and the resultant shape of our technophobia — has evolved over time.

Teach For America, which Mr. Steffensen cites as an example of society's desire for quick private - sector fixes in lieu of politically and fiscally costly systemic reform, is a new national teacher corps that recruits, trains, places, and supports outstanding individuals who commit two years to teach in urban and rural areas suffering from persistent teacher shortages.

Based in Houston, the nonprofit in which McDonald serves as national director of strategic initiatives places low - income, urban high school seniors into challenging work environments such as Continental Airlines, Exxon, and NASA.

A second necessity is an outline of what an effective school looks like, and the correlates of effective urban schools (which have held up remarkably well over the years) have given me a vision of the pieces that need to be in place for all children to learn at high levels.

Phillip Lovell, vice president of federal advocacy at the nonprofit Alliance for Excellent Education, which focuses on high school reform, says that there are simply not enough good charter school providers to take the place of all the low - performing, large urban high schools.

In urban schools students come and go all day.No 45 minutes is like the time that preceded it or the time that will follow.Urban schools report 125 classroom interruptions per week.Announcements, students going, students coming, messengers, safety aides, and intrusions by other school staff account for just some of these interruptions.It is not unusual for students to stay on task only 5 or 10 minutes in every hour.Textbook companies and curriculum reformers are constantly thwarted by this reality.They sell their materials to schools with the assurance that all the students will learn X amount in Y time.They are continually dismayed to observe that an hour of school time is not an hour of learning time.Many insightful observers of life in urban schools have pointed out that it is incredibly naive to believe that learning of subject matter is the main activity occurring in these schools.If one observes the activities and events which actually transpire — minute by minute, hour by hour, day in and day out — it is not possible to reasonably conclude that learning is the primary activity of youth attending urban schools.What does the process of changing what one does every 45 minutes and even the place where one does it portend for fulfilling a job in the world of work?If one is constantly being reinforced in the behaviors of coming, going, and being interrupted, what kind of work is one being prepared for?

«Students with disabilities served in urban settings, in which minorities predominate, have higher likelihood of being placed in segregated settings, and lower likelihood of accessing challenging curricula,» said Tom Hehir, lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Nor is Ryan optimistic about the impact of the standards and testing movement, primarily because the bars have been set too low, which means that the urban schools, placing all their efforts into passing, manage to do so, while the suburban schools easily surpass the state's yardsticks.

The 26 regions into which TFA places corps members include rural communities that struggle to lure enough teachers and urban neighborhoods that often lose their strongest teachers to the surrounding suburbs.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

Adamowski's dissertation, which exists only in one copy, apparently, is about teacher compensation... you know, those princely salaries teachers get, unlike special masters (150 - 225K + + + plus pensions never earned and platinum health benefits) or superintendent / CEOs of urban districts (with no CT state certification) $ 230K + + plus bonuses for every decimal place attained by test score percentages once the «lowest performing» students are removed from the pool.

By virtue of its location in the City of Boston, the School of Education places particular importance on addressing educational problems that appear to be characteristic of, but not limited to, the city and surrounding urban and suburban communities which we seek to serve.

Place - based scholarship programs such as the Kalamazoo Promise, in which all students graduating from specific high - poverty urban school districts qualify for free college tuition, also have been shown to increase high school outcomes and college matriculation (Bartik and Lachowska, 2012; Andrews, DesJardins and Ranchhod, 2010).

The Broad Residency in Urban Education is a two - year program, during which individuals with MBAs, JDs, etc. in the early stages of their careers are placed in high - level managerial positions in school districts, charter management organizations, or state and federal departments of education.

Grenot - Scheyer made these comments while explaining yet another local innovation, called UTEACH, an urban teaching residency in which student teachers are placed at public - school campuses for a year - long program of working in real classrooms every day and taking classes with professors who have watched them teach.

It's a sports car featuring a fully electric powertrain coupled with Honda's AI technology, and was placed alongside the Urban EV Concept which was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September.

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Enjoyed your article on book trailers, which I found while seeking out places to promote the trailer for my dark urban fantasy, «and Falling, Fly», which will be released in March 2010.

a.m.: Excursion to the Incan City of Machupicchu; Wonder of the World, which presents a set of living quarters, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the  «Intiwatana» (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, in a remarkable urban harmony, showing the Incan engineeringÂ's high development level.

«I wanted to find locations that demonstrated how people have shaped their environments, creating urban geometries in unsuspecting places, which can only be seen from above,» Jiwa told Travel + Leisure.

a.m.: Excursion to the Incan City of Machupicchu; Wonder of the World, which presents a set of living quarters, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory and clock), sacred temples and benched terraces, in an admirable urban harmony, demonstrating the Incan engineering's high development level.

It is admirable for its colossal constructions with their impeccable finish, perfectly assembled sets of symmetrical benched terraces, ceremonial centers, like the Intiwatana which must have been used to observe solar movements, as well as for its sacred places, towers, fortified walls, cemetery, urban areas, stone buildings, narrow streets, stairways and aqueducts, to irrigate its agricultural and urban sectors.

Guided tour of the Incan City of Machupicchu, Wonder of the World, which presents a set of living quarters, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the «Intiwatana» (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, in a remarkable urban harmony, showing the Incan engineering's high development level.

The three new maps are «Airbase» Team Deathmatch map, which takes place around a parked aircraft, «Quarry» Capture map, which contains sweeping sandstorms, and the «Streetwars» Team Deathmatch map, which takes places within an urban jungle of abandoned buildings.

The show, held at Laurent Delaye in June 2009, initiated a cross-referential dialogue starting with Robyn Denny's landmark, 1959 abstract painting «Place 3», which optimizes urban and visual popular culture.

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.

Dan Witz, Jeff Soto, Nychos, Olek and Saner will create new works on 10x10 foot panels, which will then be placed in windows on the ground floor of Urban Nation.