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Kerrisdale Park is definitely the right side of the tracks: this neighbourhood is bounded on its west and north by the Arbutus Corridor, an out - of - service Canadian Pacific Rail line that runs through West Vancouver, and which has been the subject of years of urban - planning angst.

MillerCoors just extended the deadline on its $ 150,000 Urban Entrepreneurs Series challenge, which will award the money to the best submitted business plans.

Though Uber is beloved by many riders, the way it has muscled into cities and the public consciousness, and the manner in which it has altered labor relations and urban planning, have rattled lawmakers, activists and even its drivers.

«Everyone wants the cake, which is the headquarters, but if not, they'll take the icing,» said Dennis Frenchman, a professor of urban design and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

We want to penetrate the old neighborhoods, and have created potential for 34,000 housing units, 10,000 of which are in approved urban building plans.

Legislating a new urban resource extraction policy, which requires mandatory consultation with urban municipalities before approving energy development projects within their boundaries, ensures licences are compatible with municipal development plans, and grants municipal governments veto power over the final licencing decision.

Consider the modern movement in architecture and urban planning, which, in its rationalism and functionalism, has left cities and public spaces very unbeautiful indeed.

I am hopeful that the lessons I can bring back from the travel can enhance the momentum and enthusiasm we're already creating with the Urban and Regional Food Charter project, which I see in many respects as a continuation of the work begun in 2012 and 2013 with the People's Food Plan.

Planning and urban policy, which normal cities view as this benign tool has been used as a powerful partisan tool to subordinate and control black people in Johannesburg and is still used that way against Palestinians in Jerusalem.

Few contest the need to check urban sprawl, so the main controversy surrounding the Green Belt is the extent to which it is being eroded by planning decisions.

Last year, Senator Klein secured $ 50,000 in funding to support Urban Health Plan's Women's Wellness Week program, which consisted of free health screenings, exercise classes and counseling aimed at helping women develop healthy habits.

Senator Klein allocated $ 50,000 in state funding for this ten - week fitness and wellness program held by Urban Health Plan, which kicked off in the fall.

Menin said that, if elected, her top issue would be education, which she spoke about as an urban planning issue as much as a pedagogical one.

The Bronx Council on the Arts, located at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), hosts three exhibitions through May 7: In the City: Memory, Places and Spaces, which includes works on migration and urban planning; Transmit - Transit: Hatuey Ramos - Fermin @ The Project Room, featuring traveling in the city and ethnic diversity; and Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear, featuring construction of hats in unorthodox ways.

Blatt was a member of the board's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) task force, which helped shape an unprecedented community - driven development plan for the sprawling Lower East Side lots.

Accra is seeking assistance from London to solve its poor urban planning challenges which have been identified as the cause of the capital's perennial flood and become a headache for governments.

It's a tale in which herders and nomads are streaming to urban centers while resources are being exploited without long - term environmental planning, and people, individually and as a society, have no choice but to adapt.

Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities.

And particularly for a field like psychology, which finds application in everything from urban planning to computer design, many researchers are finding their calling in industry.

Some of these policy strategies have been enumerated recently, all of which focus on reducing caloric intake or increasing physical activity, and include taxes on calorically dense, nutritionally sparse foods (eg, sugar - sweetened beverages); subsidies for healthier foods, especially in economically disadvantaged groups; agricultural policy changes; and urban planning aimed at encouraging walking and other modes of physical activity.

Replogle said initiatives similar to those proposed were already happening in countries like Mexico and Colombia, which have plans for comprehensive urban transport programs.

The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association mentioned the idea this week as part of an extensive analysis of how global warming might affect the City by the Bay, which is thought to be highly susceptible to flooding and other dangers in the decades ahead.

The course is intensive, with a long series of team - based activities, which on my course included devising plans to save a university department, rescue a business, and regenerate an urban area.

He also co-directs Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coastlines.

They scrutinized adaptation plans which incorporate urban planning and development actions that lead to the abatement or reduction of vulnerability to climate change, and mitigation plans that include actions such as improved energy efficiency and renewable energy generation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

I also co-direct Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coastlines.

Short periods with other companies in Belgium augmented his experience with urban and industrial wastewater treatment processes, fermentation processes, shift production planning and integrated Supply Chain, after which he worked for Henogen, Belgium from 2000 - 2006, where, as Head of Process Development, Business Development Director and Site Director, he further enhanced his skills and knowledge.

# 2 A Pristine Town Filled with Shops and Restaurants: The Rosemary Beach community is known as a planned urban community which is the concept of a place that is more tightly knit together than your average suburban subdivision.

Nick Rinaldi seeks a sense of control and a way out of the network of greed and influence surrounding an urban development plan, which affects the innocent and guilty alike.

She goes out every night, teaches spin classes at a health club and talks about her plans to open a restaurant called Moms, which she envisions as a kind of urban refuge / community center.

Or Theo Anthony's incredible Rat Film, which appears to be a look at amateur vermin exterminators in Baltimore before diving into urban planning, institutional racism and cosmic head - trip detours.

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

The unprecedented management plan, which the school committee may vote on next week, has been hailed as a bold step to help solve the problems of a troubled urban school system.

The project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional schools, including those focused on education, public health, public policy, and urban planning and design, develop knowledge that they hope will be useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving education, and increasing the quality of life for us all.

Existing programs include the Academy for Urban School Leadership in Chicago (training 53 this year), the Boettcher Teachers Program in Denver (16), and the Boston Teacher Residency, which currently (2007 — 08) has 84 participants and plans to have 100 to 120 candidates next year.

The Mississippi Department of Education is planning to launch a program that will create a «sustainable pipeline of educators who are members of the community in which they teach, particularly in urban and isolated rural districts.»

This is due in large part to Association programs such as the High Quality Charter (HQC) Grant Program, introduced in 2006, which has provided $ 8 million in planning and start - up grants to support the development of new charter schools in high - need urban school districts throughout California.

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

Part of the Mastery network, which operates more than a dozen schools in Philadelphia, the Camden charter is part of a two - pronged effort that has Mastery planning another three elementary schools serving 2,000 more students under the state's Urban Hope Act.

This year the union endorsed incumbent Arlene Silveira over Nichelle Nichols, an executive at the Urban League of Greater Madison, which proposed the charter school plan.

Consider the Winnetka Plan in the 1920s, which individualized instruction; the Project Activity Method in the 1930s, which had small groups of students work together; the growth of gifted education; the mandate for special education since the 1970s; the spread of English language learning efforts in recent decades; and the contemporary «everyone goes to college» movement in urban schools.

The Los Angeles Unified School District's new strategic plan, for example, calls for a 100 % graduation rate of its students, which, by the way, has never been accomplished in a large urban district.

While GM plans to offer its semi-automated SuperCruise system intended mainly for limited - access roads and highways in the 2017 Cadillac CTS for private customers, the arrangement with Lyft portends a future in which autonomous vehicles will be loaned out to customers from urban areas.

Ford is running a campaign called the Urban Discovery, a means by which it plans to promote its upcoming compact SUV.

Moreover, at the automobile section, Honda will exhibit the world premiere of the N - WGN, the 4th model of the N Series of mini-vehicles, as well as the world premiere of the planned production model of the second model of the Global Compact Series which is based on the URBAN SUV CONCEPT, unveiled at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in January of this year.

(a) In General — During the 12 - month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall not enact, execute, or take any action to make effective the planned implementation of risk - based premiums, which are designed for mortgage lenders to offer borrowers an FHA - insured product that provides a range of mortgage insurance premium pricing, based on the risk that the insurance contract represents, as such planned implementation was set forth in the Notice published in the Federal Register on May 13, 2008 (Vol.

Inspired by 15th to early 17th century Renaissance architecture and the urban planning of the city of Venice, The Ritz - Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal will have: one and two - bedroom villas, complete with private plunge pools, outdoor terraces and butler service; a rooftop terrace, two poolside bars and a lobby lounge and bar, all of which offer guests a great selection of drinks and bite - sized meals.

The center plans to monitor a turf war between two squirrel species: the western gray squirrel, which is disappearing from its historic range because of urban sprawl and strong competition from the more adaptable eastern fox squirrel, which was introduced to the region in the early 1900s.

Fuel Entertainment, Xbox Entertainment Studios and LightBox Entertainment plan on digging up portions of the now famous dumping site, which is located near First Street and White Sands Boulevard, which is now the ultimate urban legend in the retro video game community.