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Improvement of the slum housing conditions, amongst the worst in the capital, was first undertaken by St Pancras Council in 1906 at Goldington Buildings, at the junction of Pancras Road and Royal College Street, and continued on a larger scale by the St Pancras House Improvement Society ( subsequently the St Pancras and Humanist Housing Association, the present owner of Goldington Buildings ) which was established in 1924.
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Improvement and slum
The City Improvement Trust first cleared some slum tenements in 1866.
This argument hinges on an unrealized design Thomson prepared in 1868 for the Glasgow City Improvement Trust, an agency of the Town Council given the task of redeveloping a large area of slum housing centred on the medieval Old Town.
Improvement and housing
Before his death in 1838, Stevens founded the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, which laid out a regular system of streets, blocks and lots, constructed housing, and developed manufacturing sites.
The Ashton-under-Lyne Improvement Act was passed in 1886 which gave the borough influence over housing and allowed the imposition of minimum standards such as drainage.
In 2003 a major project called the ' Osmaston Housing Improvement Zone ' was approved, designed to improve the condition of the local housing.
Queenstown was subsequently chosen by Singapore Improvement Trust ( SIT ) as a site for housing development due to its proximity to the successful first public housing scheme in Tiong Bahru.
It was the first project undertaken by the Singapore Improvement Trust ( SIT ), a government body administered by the British colonial authority, to provide for mass public housing in Singapore.
In 1950s, the temple area was reduced to about 20, 000 m² when part of the land was acquired by the Singapore Improvement Trust for public housing.
Public housing architecture in Singapore dates back to the 1930s with the Singapore Improvement Trust ( SIT ), a colonial government agency, embarked on a building programme to address a shortage of affordable housing in Singapore.
Improvement and conditions
* The Benefit Improvement Law ( 1973 ), which made entitlement to hospital care legally binding ( entitlements already enjoyed in practice ), abolished time limits for hospital care, introduced entitlement to household assistance under specific conditions, and also introduced entitlement to leave of absence from work and cash benefits in the event of a child ’ s illness.
Organizations like the Mullens-based Rural Appalachian Improvement League are working to improve conditions across the region.
Improvement in local economic conditions, associated with a better quality of life, is suggested to contribute to the fading of the episodic occurrences of koro.
In 1997, Pope made headlines when he publicly criticized Premier Harris, accusing the government of demonizing teachers and supporting the teachers ' strike against Harris's Bill 160 ( the " Education Quality Improvement Act ") which removed the ability of collective bargaining agreements to regulate working conditions for teachers, introduced teacher testing and allowed the government to increase class sizes and reduce preparation time.
Improvement in some of the conditions was noted, and safety was confirmed by the lack of adverse dermal reactions and by the lack of detectable glycosides in blood samples taken periodically during this 30-day period.
From 2007, the Western Bypass was included in the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project ( GFIP ), which will improve traffic conditions in the province and create jobs in construction.
Improvement and capital
The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, is properly written in capital letters and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the code in the postal address.
MTDB ’ s All-Bus Improvement Alternative: This “ low capital cost ” system would have introduced high-occupancy vehicle lanes on freeways and invested in higher capacity buses and express routes.
MTDB ’ s Rail Improvement Alternative, San Diego County ’ s “ Light Rail Electric ”: This “ medium capital cost ” has electric light-rail transit replacing buses in the South Line corridor and would re-deploy the buses on feeder services.
Over the next several years, he gained his greatest professional reputation for litigation associated with the disposition of lands held by the state's Internal Improvement Fund — which had been created in 1855 to attract Northern capital and spur development.
While regulation is one of the pillars of the TRPA ’ s plan, the agency also emphasizes the capital investment and scientific research components of its strategy which are embodied in the Environmental Improvement Program ( EIP ).
Improvement and was
Birdsey Northrop of Connecticut was responsible for globalizing it when he visited Japan in 1883 and delivered his Arbor Day and Village Improvement message.
This was subsequently translated into English by John Essex and published in England as For the Further Improvement of Dancing.
Based on the stand-up comedy of Tim Allen, Home Improvement made its debut on ABC on September 17, 1991, and was one of the highest-rated sitcoms for almost the entire decade.
The Tibet Improvement Party was founded by Pandatsang Rapga, a pro-ROC and pro-KMT Khampa revolutionary, who worked against the 13th Dalai Lama's Tibetan Government in Lhasa.
** BI was the first Norwegian institution to receive the distinction EQUIS ( European Quality Improvement System )
After the film, it was explained that for Disney World, including EPCOT, to succeed, a special district would have to be formed: the Reedy Creek Improvement District with two cities inside it, the City of Bay Lake and the City of Reedy Creek ( now the City of Lake Buena Vista ).
However, the idea of EPCOT was instrumental in prompting the state of Florida to create the Reedy Creek Improvement District ( RCID ) and the Cities of Bay Lake and Reedy Creek ( soon renamed Lake Buena Vista ), a legislative mechanism which allows the Walt Disney Company to exercise governmental powers over Walt Disney World.
Improvement in plumbing systems was very slow, with virtually no progress made from the time of the Roman system of aqueducts and lead pipes.
Pamela Andersen became so popular from her Playboy spreads that she was able to land roles on Home Improvement and Baywatch.
A young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr. was president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization that directed the boycott.
He was a contributor and editor of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League's Negro World newspaper.
As such, it is the only region that does not have a Statute of Autonomy per se, instead autonomy was via a " Law of Reintegration and Improvement of the Chartered Regime ".
Home Improvement also strengthened ABC's ratings, as it was constantly rated in the top 10 of the Nielsen's Ranking Chart until its finale in 1999.
In 1999, a work for hire related amendment was inserted into the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999.
Bankers Life Fieldhouse is owned and operated by the Capital Improvement Board, City of Indianapolis, Indiana and it's groundbreaking was on July 22, 1997 by Ellerbe Becket Architects & Engineers.
In 1951 Canadian Steel Improvement, Ltd. was established.
Steel Improvement provided the necessary technical and management expertise and the Canadian government funded construction of the plant, which was leased to Steel Improvement.
After the Civil War, a state agency called the Internal Improvement Fund ( IIF ), whose purpose was to improve Florida's roads, canals, and rail lines, was discovered to be deeply in debt.
The oldest association in the United Kingdom similar to the YMCA was founded in Scotland in 1824 as Glasgow Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement.
However, the Improvement Committee concluded that it would be too expensive to transfer slum-dwellers to municipally-built accommodation and so the land was leased as a business proposition on a 75 year lease.
The metronome dates from the early 19th century, where it was patented by Johann Maelzel in 1815 as a tool for musicians, under the title " Instrument / Machine for the Improvement of all Musical Performance, called Metronome ".
Perhaps in one of history's ironies, another resident of Venango County about the same time as Henry and Abbie Rogers was a little girl named Ida M. Tarbell, whose father was an independent producer whose small business was ruined by the South Improvement Company scheme of 1871 and the conglomerate which became Standard Oil.
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