Sentences with phrase «as urban planners»

Through collaboration with LATCH collective, students were able to ask questions about engineering and design from experts such as urban planners.

Secondary consultants such as urban planners, building code certifiers, electrical, construction and traffic engineers, cost consultants, interior designers and landscape architects may be required.

That is a choice you're making as an urban planner, and that's important.»

She spends her working hours as an urban planner solving the pedestrian and transportation quandaries of Massachusetts (no small feat!)

He is a cellist and a world traveler who recently has found a career as an Urban Planner in a nearby township.

, Yan's ultimate goal, as an urban planner and as a Vancouver resident, is to create a city where most owners and residents don't feel «like rootless consumers; temporary and indifferent to each other.»

Gosling's background as an urban planner also gives him a strong appreciation of Old Town.

Informed by his training as an urban planner and sculptor, Theaster Gates produces works which develop urban spaces through performance art and the critical engagement of the public.

His training as an urban planner and sculptor, and subsequent time spent studying clay, has given him keen awareness of the poetics of production and systems of organizing.

Drawing on her background as an urban planner, green developer and ecologist, her work plays on what she calls «cultural neurosis»: the human tendency to over-consume, over-build and over-groom.

Trained as an urban planner, Wüst came to photography in the «70s as a rhetorical tool for studying the development of cities.

Trained as an urban planner, he's one of a growing group of artists who are turning art into urban regeneration, and urban regeneration into art.

Career Objective: A position as an urban planner, where I will get to utilize my organizational skills for the sake of arresting the haphazard growth of the cities.

Until recently, I had been working as an Urban Planner with CB&I for five years.

I moved back to Bend in 1990, and worked as an Urban Planner for Deschutes County and the City of Bend through 1997.

Not exact matches

Ali belongs to a new generation of urban planners taping into the rising demand for the services of a profession whose fortunes are tied to surging property development markets as well as the growth in city - building activity across Canada.

The self - driving car market is getting crowded, even as regulations are still getting hammered out, the technology is being tweaked, and urban planners are yet uncertain how cities should be designed to accommodate the automobiles.

His data and methods were ultimately very useful to urban planners, who discovered many facts, such as people don't really like wide open spaces — they prefer intimate surroundings because they feel more secure.

As designers, city planners, and architects look to make urban spaces more functional, attractive, and inclusive, what new trends are emerging and what lessons can be learned?

As early as 1986, Mayor Oscar Goodman created a redevelopment agency to focus on downtown, but it initially chased after office buildings and other projects that would not have benefited an urban, walkable core, Steve van Gorp, an urban planner who was a senior planner with the city of Las Vegas, told mAs early as 1986, Mayor Oscar Goodman created a redevelopment agency to focus on downtown, but it initially chased after office buildings and other projects that would not have benefited an urban, walkable core, Steve van Gorp, an urban planner who was a senior planner with the city of Las Vegas, told mas 1986, Mayor Oscar Goodman created a redevelopment agency to focus on downtown, but it initially chased after office buildings and other projects that would not have benefited an urban, walkable core, Steve van Gorp, an urban planner who was a senior planner with the city of Las Vegas, told me.

It was widely hailed by the professional urban planners and architects when completed, but as Corbin points out, it's a part of Boston, perhaps the part, that residents love to hate, a place that made the old elevated freeway that cut across Boston seem positively organic by comparison.

Since September 2013 the Food Alliance (Deakin University) has begun the process of establishing Australia's first Urban and Regional Food Network, bringing together 20 local governments as well as a wide and expanding cohort of researchers, food businesses, health professionals, planners, community gardeners, not - for - profit organisations, Transition groups, permaculturalists and others.

As an architect and urban planner, Mimi was used to creating solutions where there previously were none, and so with sleep still in her eyes, she set about designing a merino wool baby sleep bag.

His energy and his talent as an architect, artist and urban planner can be valuable assets to the park board.

Jennifer Schwartz Berky, an urban planner, was elected to the legislature from Kingston last year, and Kingston's Common Council includes three new members described as «academics.»

Jennifer Schwartz Berky is running for a second term in the Ulster County Legislature, a role that calls upon her 30 - year career as a professional urban planner in environmental protection and economic development.

His shtick is «I get shit done,»» said Philip Plotch, an urban planner who served as the director of the World Trade Center redevelopment and special projects for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

Using the same statistical tools that urban planners and insurance companies use to predict disasters such as earthquakes and 100 - year floods based on prior patterns, Hines forecast a 100 - year blackout that would knock out 186,000 megawatts of power.

After years of watching engineers model traffic flow with advanced physics to alleviate jams, a team of urban planners called Shared Space have adopted a simple solution based on a zoological concept known as the risk compensation effect.

Barthelemy says the model could also come in handy for estimating traffic delays, gas consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, so that urban planners and policy makers can better understand how those different factors evolve as a city grows.

It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

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By taking on such real - life roles as site planner, financial analyst, marketing director, and neighborhood - to - city liaison, team members learn firsthand the nitty - gritty intricacies of urban renewal.

Pathways program planners «look at such traditional criteria as grade point averages and test scores, but they also use interviews and writing samples to select people who are committed to teaching in urban schools.»

Once we had the project we were then able to draw upon community resources such as Urban Planning lecturers from our local university, Project Managers and Urban Planners (two of whom were female) to provide the girls with insight into these careers and use their expert knowledge.I think the connection to a real world application and using a problem based learning pedagogy has been very important.

Urban planners are redesigning cities and major metropolitan areas to be friendlier to pedestrians and bicyclists, amid ever - worsening traffic and as many millennials choose not to own cars, as Uber and Lyft and their ilk edge out traditional taxicabs.

It is widely believed that an urban planner, Chester Rapkin, was influential in SoHo getting its name, and referred to the district as such in a 1962 study.

Solo - dwellers, as they are called, are top of mind for urban planners, explains Brian Jackson, Vancouver's general manager of planning and development.

Known in city - planner speak as «complete neighbourhoods,» these walkable neighbourhoods can be found in both urban and suburban settings.

These will come together as part of a masterful design to respect and enjoy the beauty and luxury of the venue, as is a tradition in projects overseen by famed urban planner, Mario Lazo.

Developed into its current form between 1890 and 1893 by the biologist, botanist and urban planner Patrick Geddes, Ramsay Garden started out as Ramsay Lodge, a block of Georgian «garden homes» built by the poet and wig - maker Allan Ramsay the Elder in 1733.

Join over 200 world - renowned art and cultural influencers from more than 20 countries, including museum directors, gallerists, curators, auction houses, collectors, entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions, lawyers, artists, architects, designers, urban planners, government officials and tourism organizations, as well as corporate and civic leaders at Art for Tomorrow.

Gosling came to Alexandria in 1996 after training as an architect and urban planner.

«What We Made's strength is derived from its vibrant conversations, balancing the voices of such well - known artists as Tania Bruguera, Rick Lowe, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, along with urban planners, educators, philosophers, political scientists, and participants....

Trained as a sculptor and an urban planner, Gates is an artist, urbanist, and curator whose work aims to catalyze social and economic change through direct artistic agency.

Photographer David S. Allee knows how to capture urban landscape at its finest probably because he has an eye for design — the photographer first began his career as an urban and environmental planner.

A large collaborative initiative that is founded and directed by the New Museum, and involves scores of downtown organizations, including universities, arts institutions, and community groups, the Festival serves as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.

New York based artist Lena Henke discusses her fascination with urban planning and design, and in particular the notorious city planner Robert Moses, who took a «meat axe» to the New York as though it were a sculpture of his own.

Participants, from 30 countries, included museum directors, gallery owners, curators, auction houses, collectors, entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions, lawyers, artists, architects, urban planners and government officials, as well as corporate and civic leaders.

Formally educated as a potter and urban planner, Chicago - based Gates is an artist and curator whose practice is a hybrid of community development, social engagement, object making and performance.