Sentences with phrase «with urban nature»

Not exact matches

Another Super Bowl first - timer, Fiji Water makes its debut at the big game this year with an ad pitching the water as «Nature's Gift» while showing images of the Fiji islands juxtaposed with urban cityscapes.

The stories exposed self - dealing at the Nature Conservancy; sham deductions taken for protecting facades on urban buildings; and jaw - dropping write - offs for golf resorts, whose chemical - doused fairways and private membership seemed at odds with the goals of protecting natural habitat and providing «significant public benefit.»

I present urban form to my students in the long and large western humanist tradition that sees cities as communal artifacts that human animals by our nature make in order to live well (with all the teleological and virtue ethics implications of that tradition's notion of living well).

Tolkien's reference to «ancient shepherds» seems to carry with it an implicit criticism of «modern» and «urban»; that modern man, surrounded by concrete and reliant on mechanical devices, has lost touch with nature.

It's rough out there in nature, whether in the wilds of a rain forest or an urban jungle, partly because the earth is jammed with devout human predators unlike all others: we not only kill for food, we kill each other along with the natural forces nourishing life on this planet.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

Living and working in Richmond, Virginia, we're both do - it - yourselfers by nature and continually in search of simple solutions for living more sustainably — here on the blog we love sharing what we've been up to lately along with tips & tricks for DIY home decor, urban gardening and cooking.

My decision to apply for a Churchill Fellowship followed on from case study research I was involved in with Griffith University (see the Burton pdf attached) in 2012, exploring the scale and nature of urban agriculture in Melbourne.

The River Foundation's ambitious projects range from installing exciting urban art pieces by renowned artists to creating unprecedented opportunities for education, recreation, reflection and interaction with nature along the entire river.

The Nature Museum summer camps offer children (ages 4 - 11) the opportunity to engage with and explore our local urban habitats.

The Nature Museum Summer Camp programs offer children (ages 4 - 11) the opportunity to engage with and explore our local urban habitats.

This localisation (or, urbanisation) of citizenship may be expected to correlate more closely with the increasingly more place - specific nature of civil society in urban areas, offering better scope for «getting involved» in governance than at the more distant, «homogenised» notion of national level.

Tickets are $ 10 and include a haunted walk and music from 7 to 10 p.m. Safe and secure Halloween fun for the entire family Join the Urban Park Rangers to Celebrate Samhain this Saturday (Oct. 31) with a nature walk through the woods at Van Cortlandt Park.

Research into both coyote and human behavior informs strategies to reduce urban - nature clashes and make peace with animal neighbors

«Our goal is to realize a variety of artificial functional systems on the nanoscale, taking direct inspirations from nature,» says Laura Na Liu, who works with Urban and leads the research group.

Depressive mood was not alleviated to any noticeable degree from the interaction with nature compared to urban walks, as positive mood increased and negative mood decreased after both walks to an equal and significant extent.

Her aim as a nutritionist is to aid and empower others to achieve a state of vibrant health and balance via the best possible nutrition and healing modalities for our bodies and minds; and to nurture our connection with spirit and nature even within an urban environment.

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Art lover - beer, specially porter - music music and more music - nature and urban - peace and quiet with chili on the side every now and then.

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The film's hero with a dozen faces is a young man (Wiley Wiggins of «Dazed and Confused») who wanders an urban dreamscape, encountering various guides and fellow sleepwalkers, most of whom have something to say about the meaning of life and the nature of death.

The Urban Ecology Center, in Milwaukee, is designed around a similar premise: Children gain the most appreciation for nature from constant contact with it.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districts.

Citizen science field trips would foster a more ecologically literate citizenry by giving urban students opportunities to interact with nature in meaningful ways.

Since 2003, Real School Gardens has been coordinating closely with urban school districts and communities to design and install sustainable school gardens that raise hope, spark imaginations, and connect children to nature.

Along with this sense of nature - urban - suburban homogenization, Mandel interweaves a strong sense of danger.

The USDA defines a rural area as any area that is rural in nature and is not part of or associated with an urban area, or any town, village or city and has less than 10,000 residents.

Isolated from the mainland — and protected from its rampant development — the island is a beacon for those looking to shake off the bounds of urban sprawl and truly reconnect with the wild places, where nature still rules and humans can be just a part of the landscape.

With Table Mountain and the Cape of Good Hope both in close proximity, nature is never far away, but within the city itself, you'll find plenty of urban charm, such as a world - class restaurant scene, fashionable shops, and modern art galleries, including the newly opened Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.

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Some locations offer nature and solitude with opportunities to see a huge variety of birds and wildlife, others offer dynamic urban waterfronts with incredible sights and views.

Almaty offers the perfect balance between city and nature with an energetic urban center and the surrounding Alatau Mountains.

A perfect balance of urban design and nature, this Autograph Collection Hotel challenges guests with bold contradictions.

Unlike any urban city with high - rises, Belize is blessed with lush nature, acres of rainforest, and the tallest building in the country is Canna Temple, a Maya pyramid at Caracol.

In an urban context, the outdoors is not so much «wild nature» but rather the space between thousands of «containers» in which individuals carve out a private space and fill it with personal objects.

In Urban Nature: from Dublin to DC, Nancy Previs focuses on the relationship between the natural world and its interaction with cities.

I hand - cut the leaves of thirty artificial trees and plants into unnatural, geometric shapes with the aim of creating a more reliable translation of the misleading nature experienced daily in the urban context.

While I have lived in New York City (with its infamous pigeons), for my entire life, my home in Brooklyn offers a slice of nature rarely found in an urban environment.

Yanyan Huang's elegant, calligraphic paintings draw from the raw beauty nature and they sit alongside the vibrant, urban colors with dynamic gestural movements of Emily Joelle Lambert.

Inspired by the High Line as an ambulatory space experienced most naturally in motion, Wanderlust extends the tradition of Conceptual art wherein the act of walking served as an inspiration for many artists who explored life both in the urban context and in an ambivalent confrontation with nature.

Lee Tusman is an independent curator based in Philadelphia whose projects straddle the intersection of ideas that are socially - based and urban in nature, with a focus on contemporary new media.

This sculpture, like so many other works by Dion, investigates what happens to animals as they adapt to and thrive in our newly developed urban ecosystems, and when human environments intersect with nature.

The palimpsest of visual identities contained within urban art and architecture is acknowledged along with the ephemeral nature of these forms that seem to slip away as they are fabricated, destroyed and refabricated to occupy new forms.

Along with Eunice Cheung's ink and color painting of a chain - smoking sparrow, such pieces capture the widening disjuncture between man and nature in an urban center, such as Hong Kong.

Lee Tusman presents projects that straddle the intersection of ideas that are socially - based, urban in nature and that combine unconventional practices with contemporary visual arts and internet media.

Veronica Barker - Barzel often describes her work as Urban Surrealism and the theme of her show is nature based with fantasy type scenes such as trees becoming one with bird homes.