In August 2010, the Company acquired Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group Limited (SI Urban Development).
One company with an interesting approach to market-based corporate social responsibility is the Goldman Sacks Urban Investment Group.
In 1991, some of Xalapa's poorest residents aligned with an urban planning group and devised a remarkable plan designed to give them a sense that they belonged to -- and were respected by -- their community.
Islam, an architect, is the head of the Urban Study Group, a small band of architects founded in 2004 that are campaigning to save the cultural heritage of Puran Dhaka, the most historic area in the city.
In a report released on Wednesday, the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit urban research group, said many of the city's largest projects, from Battery Park City to the revamping of Columbus Circle, have dragged on for years longer than initially projected.
Herman also coordinates with regional partners to integrate plans and share resources through the Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Team and Urban Area Working Group.
"There has never been a more important time for the domestic violence shelter community to open its doors to pets, " said Nathaniel Fields, president of the nonprofit group Urban Resource Institute, which sponsors the shelter.
Nicholas Falk of the Urban and Economic Development Group, a consultancy, argues that the most important things small towns can do are to improve their shops and to emphasise their distinctiveness.
According to a study by policy group the Urban Institute, felonies increased 18.3% in New York subways in 2005--but minus iPod thefts, the amount of subway crime would have actually decreased by 3% for the year.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, a community in Brooklyn, New York, of predominantly working-class African-Americans, is the group's only urban sponsored community.
The Urban Institute, a policy research group, found that 12% of families in New York (a stronghold for successful, working women) use nannies, compared to 6% nationwide.
Participating in the original conversation were a program that uses public health strategies to reduce urban violence ( Cure Violence), a group of young people creating health care tools for mobile devices ( Medic Mobile), and organizations using crisis mapping and SMS messaging to promote peace and facilitate humanitarian relief ( Ushahidi and Sisi ni Amani).
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At the fundraising lunch Detroit Soup, local activist upstarts pitched projectsin urban farming and educational music programs to the ADIH group.
The environmental group also says that, due to urban sprawl, city driving happens at slower speeds and people spend more time driving in city-type conditions because of gridlock.
The group is the combined result of an urban tradition in American music that stretches back to historical precedents in jazz, rhythm and blues, funk and popular music since the 1970s.
Putin has now lost the support of much of the urban middle class and young people -- a group that always polled highly for Putin -- and his ruling party's brand is in shambles.
Part of the African Pride Hotel group, the Melrose Arch Hotel has redefined urban chic in a city which I have come to fully embrace for its diversity and rising self-confidence, finally emerging strong from many years of its turbulent past.
According to Ashish Karamchandani of Monitor Group, another consulting firm, India has 23m urban families with incomes of 60, 000-130, 000 rupees a year.
If you assume that primary care resources are already fully utilized (and in urban areas the evidence for that is overwhelming) then one group can get more primary care only if some other group gets less.
For the equivalency exam field tests, the state Education Department is trying to select a representative group of schools and students, including schools in rural, urban and suburban areas, as well as students who speak Spanish as their first language.
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The group also works in some of the region's most destitute urban areas.
As well as dancers, the group are also looking for two rapper narrators to join rapper Soul Urban Poet who is already on board.
In some of the most popular group classes, movements have nicknames plucked from the intersection of innuendo and Urban Dictionary.
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Urban knows the Nebraska health insurance market because he's CEO of Corporate Resource Group, an insurance brokerage in Omaha, Neb.
One problem with urban kayaking is that the people running the tours are often the only ones in the group with any real experience on the water.
Sandton's latest entrant is The Maslow, a hip, designer offering by the Sun International hotel group that opened at the end of 2012, offering 283 rooms in an urban park setting.
An international expert group has since been set up to assist in the design and implementation of this Urban Futures Programme.
Another group receiving support is the Natural Resources Conservation Service which is working on the San Francisco Urban Resources Partnership.
That group includes Grassley's fellow Iowan Rep. Bruce Braley, who is part of a group of House Democrats fighting for a fix in disparities in how Medicare reimburses rural and urban health care providers.
But the divisions between Megawati Sukarnoputri, the daughter of Indonesia's first leader, Abdurrahman Wahid, leader of a large rural Muslim group and a champion of secular Islam, and Amien Rais, who is popular among urban Muslims and has recently been preaching a secular message of national unity, have long prevented them from pulling it off.
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