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Urban Design Associates

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Urban Design Associates, Ltd. (UDA) is an Architectural design firm specializing in custom residential architecture located in Scottsdale, AZ. UDA was founded in April, 1989 by Randall Lee Hutchison AIA. History When founded in 1989 UDA was known as Urban Design Group (UDG), and ...

Urban Diversion

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Urban Diversion is a San Francisco Bay Area activities and adventures social club. Established in 2003, the company reportedly serves over 700 members and hosts and organizes 35-50 unique events each month in San Francisco, the East Bay, and the South Bay. Urban Diversion is an o...

Urban environment simulation

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Transport Simulation for Sustainable Cities Simulation is the art of simplifying a real world situation to its most relevant components, such that it can be believably reproduced by a computer. The simplified parameters can then be varied to test different scenarios of interest. ...

Urban Figure Ground Debate

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The urban plan is composed of the plot, the street, the constructed space, and the open space , and in the figure ground plan the constructed space is represented in black poche and all void spaces, including streets, are left white. The past century has hosted much debate over h...

Urban form in the Arab world : past and present

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Urban form in the Arab world : past and present is a book by architectural historian and urban designer Stefano Bianca. It analyzes the challenges posed by new technology and economic development to traditional structures in Arab cities. Its target audience includes Middle East a...

Urban Gypsies

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Urban Gypsies are an instrumental Jazz Latin fusion guitar band. Formed in 1998, the group started with Gavin Libotte and Glenn Rogers in Perth, Western Australia. The music incorporates jazz fusion mixed with world music influences and Latin guitar styles. The Band has supported...

Urban Institute Press

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The Urban Institute Press publishes analytical and reference works on U.S. social policy, with the goal of sharpening public debate on social policy issues and programs by providing new information and cogent analyses. The UI Press is the publishing arm of the nonprofit Urban Ins...

Urban jazz

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Urban jazz is the fusion of smooth jazz and R&B/hip-hop music. Urban jazz usually contains strong R&B percussion and bass lines. A few of the better known urban jazz artists are Boney James, Ronny Jordan, Nick Colionne, Wayman Tisdale, Najee, and Paul Jackson, Jr....

Urban Logic

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Urban Logic is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, organized in New York and qualified in California, co-founded by Bruce Cahan and David Kuhns in April 1991. Work in New York City On a hot August 19, 1989 evening, an ancient steam pipe maintained by Con Edison erupted, spewing 2...

Urban magic

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Urban Magic is a genre that combines aspects of fantasy and urban fiction in the elements of plot, theme, and setting. The genre is differentiated from science fiction and fantasy in that both urban setting and elements of magic play integral roles. Without one or the other the t...

Urban Mimics

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Urban Mimics (composition from the English to mimic + suffix “-s”) is a group of photographic artists whose primary goal is to become connected the world around us though the blending of the human body with the urban landscape. This leads to the visual integra...

Urban Ninjism

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An style of freerunning based on a mixture of traditional Parkour/Freerunning, Martial Arts, Acrobatics, and stunting. HistoryThe term was originally coined by Xin Sarith Azuma Wuku when explaining what he does would be called.. The term is a play of words on the name given to Xi...

Urban Reforestation

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Urban Reforestation is a movement which is occurring around the world, whereby people are cultivating, farming, and reforesting their own urban patch. In AustraliaVarious projects around the world are involved with this movement. One such organisation that promotes this movement ...

Urban Research Program

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The Urban Research Program formerly The Urban Research Center was established in 2006 as an official university research centre and program at Western Sydney University, NSW, Australia formerly the University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia. The Urban Research Program engages i...

Urban Romanticism

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Urban Romanticism is an artistic and literary movement whose popularization is widely attributed to the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Hallmarks of Urban Romanticism include use of or reference to digital media, popular culture, an...

Urban Rush

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Urban Rush is a Canadian entertainment talk show based out of Vancouver, British Columbia and is hosted by Fiona Forbes and Michael Eckford. Urban Rush features guests from the genres of film, television, music, literature, sports and pop culture.Forbes and Eckford have been work...

Urban society in China

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There is considerable confusion in both Chinese and foreign sources over definitions of urban places and hence considerable variation in estimates of China's urban population (see Migration in China).The problem of determining the size of the urban population reflects inconsisten...

Urban voodoo machine

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The Urban Voodoo Machine are a “Bourbon Soaked Gypsy Blues Bop ‘n’Stroll" band, based in Dalston, North London. (1) Their music comprises elements of blues, gypsy music, crime jazz, rock'n'roll, ska, outlaw country, rockabilly, swing, spaghetti weste...

Urban Wrestling Alliance

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Urban Wrestling Alliance was a syndicated weekly television program which aired from 2000 to 2001. Its executive producers were Vic Bulluck and Alonzo Brown, along with Rich Melcombe from Richmel Productions in Los Angeles. The UWA was broadcast on then-UPN television stations ac...

Urbana sistem

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Urbana sistem is a modern realistic self defense system developed in Croatia (Europe) by Sensei Miro Zdunic, M.G.R.Y. (3. Dan Ju-Jitsu, 2. Dan Aiki-Jitsu, Combat Arnis Instructor).In its core, Urbana is comprised of a score of martial arts, with emphasis on Ju-Jitsu, Wing Chun, A...

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