Word: urbanism
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...opportunity to talk to curious strangers about climate change. “When people encounter something in an unexpected manner, their minds fire more quickly so they are more receptive to new ideas,” she said. Mosher was joined by an interdisciplinary panel of scientists, artists, and urban planners who discussed environmental activism in their fields of expertise. Panelist Bill Fox, who is the director of the Center for Art & Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, said that Mosher’s work is an example of how artists can instigate change on issues of global importance...
...nation?s states and cities are awaiting an infusion of $1.5 billion from President Obama?s stimulus package devoted to homelessness prevention programs. Those programs will provide short-term rental and mortgage assistance, as well as security deposits and utility bills. A decade ago, the Department of Housing and Urban Development spent barely $1 billion on all of its homeless programs each year...
...misconceived "new town," built in the 1960s and promoted as an urban utopia, Craigavon looks like the forlorn kind of place where nothing ever happens. Last night, just 48 hours after the murder of two British soldiers by a dissident republican terrorist group, it saw the kind of action Northern Ireland thought it had left behind for good. A policeman, Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, was shot dead in a nationalist area of the town - northern Irish conurbations still tend to be divided along political and religious lines. Carroll was the first officer to be shot dead in Northern Ireland...
...animal shelter in Massachusetts, a public boarding school in Washington, D.C., and in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans for the first time. Meunier said she was particularly excited about the new program in Washington. “A lot of our students are really interested in urban education,” she said. “It’s a great opportunity for them to look at a new model and teach.” Despite these shifts, Meunier said that the budget for the ASB program—totaling approximately $50,000—will...
Brazilian devotion to the Catholic Church has declined over the past several years. Whereas Brazil was once an almost entirely Catholic nation, only 74% of Brazilians today admit allegiance to Rome, with large numbers, especially the urban poor, having defected to Protestant Evangelical sects. Many more water down their Catholicism with dashes of African religions such as Candomble or spiritist beliefs such as Kardecism. Only recently has the decrease in Catholic affiliation seemingly leveled...