Sentence examples for urban foundation from inspiring English sources

One outgrowth of these progressive urges was the Urban Foundation, started by mining titans like the Menell family, owners of the Anglovaal gold house.

A particular interest was the Urban Foundation, which he helped establish, dedicated to improving the environment in which black South Africans live in the cities.

This resentment led al-Muʿtaṣim to found a new capital at Sāmarrāʾ, the last major urban foundation in Iraq until the 20th century.

This view is expressed in the Oppenheimer Thesis, formulated by a S. African businessman, Harry F. Oppenheimer, who set up the Urban Foundation there to help urban blacks (it has accomlished little).

Before he became a union organizer, he worked at the Urban Foundation, an organization started by Harry Oppenheimer, then the head of Anglo American, a vast conglomerate with a dominant position in South Africa's apartheid economy.

He helped set up the South Africa Foundation after the Sharpeville massacre of 1961, and then, after the 1976 Soweto uprising, the Urban Foundation, which poured millions of rands into welfare and housing schemes for blacks.

In June, Donna Karan presented a "Book of Happiness" to Bill Clinton at her Urban Zen foundation benefit.

Hank Dittmar, special adviser to Prince Charles's urban building foundation, said cities like Beijing are in danger of becoming "architectural trophy rooms" for the likes of Hadid as they seek statement buildings to project their new global capital.

Local city organizations include Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater St . Louis The Mathews-Dickey Boys & Girls Clubs, Demetrious Johnson Charitable Foundation, The Little Bit Foundation, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, and New Dimensions Soccer Corporation.

Class discussion and readings will trace the role of social scientists, foundations, urban planners, government actors, and private economic interests in this transformation of metropolitan American.

When the Normans invaded Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the 11th and 12th centuries, settlement in those countries was predominantly non-urban, and the foundation of towns was often linked with the creation of a castle.