Sentences with phrase «as city planners»

The idea of a street code is not entirely new, but is starting to gain a little more traction as city planners think about designing streets on more of a shared use model.

San Francisco's Nob Hill became a hive of green activity last week, as city planners, activists, academics, public officials, businessmen, students, indigenous leaders and others gathered to discuss issues ranging from veganism as a strategy to end

There are certain key jobs that should be sought: teaching in schools of education, serving as organizers in unions, as lawyers and doctors for the poor, as clergy in various kinds of churches, as city planners, as journalists.

He began his career as a city planner in 2006.

Performance Task Directions: As a city planner, you have been asked to design a new park for residents.

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As a financial planner in New York City, I've come to expect new client meetings to include conversations about financial anxiety, confusion, and frustration.

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.

As with other transportation - oriented startups, Miovision is finding city planners increasingly receptive to its pitch.

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.

Manufacturers will collaborate with traffic experts and city planners so that real - time vehicle data can improve the entire transportation network by managing energy consumption and identify and solving issues as they are developing.

City planners are even pondering a temporary Chicago - style shoreline ferris wheel as a tourist attraction — all in an effort to continue to grow this community's «fun factor» says Montemayor.

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 part of his inquiry, Paulsen helped create a public event, bringing together a container company manager, architects, art students, city planners and regulatory officials to brainstorm solutions in a design charette that drew wider media coverage.

It's important to focus on what you can do today as well as down the road, said Douglas Boneparth, a certified financial planner at Life and Wealth Planning in New York City.

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.

But extensive outreach efforts drew applications from all over the city, and the planners accepted twice as many as expected.

The conservancy's goal, Gordon said, is to live up to the city's motto — Urbs in Horto, or City in a Garden — and the legacies of visionary city planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in Chiccity's motto — Urbs in Horto, or City in a Garden — and the legacies of visionary city planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in ChicCity in a Garden — and the legacies of visionary city planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in Chiccity planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in Chicago.

«I ran for NYC Council in 1997 after a career as a teacher, city planner, small business owner, district manager of a community board, and having held a number of civic leadership roles.»

As City Hall fine - tuned its proposal in March, planners considered alternatives such as allowing self - storage as parts of mixed - use developments with manufacturing useAs City Hall fine - tuned its proposal in March, planners considered alternatives such as allowing self - storage as parts of mixed - use developments with manufacturing useas allowing self - storage as parts of mixed - use developments with manufacturing useas parts of mixed - use developments with manufacturing uses.

Some planners support the idea as a solution to New York's affordability crisis, as the move could enable the city to zone certain areas for extremely dense residential developments with tens of thousands of affordable apartments.

Emanuel hopes that the study's results will help city planners and government officials to decide where and how to rebuild and fortify infrastructure, as well as whether to recode building standards to stand up to stronger storms and more damaging floods.

As more cities invest in green roofs, planners are challenged to find plants that can thrive in shallow planting conditions and with minimal maintenance.

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.

The researchers also note that public health specialists have advocated using formal health impact assessment (HIA) as a means to help transportation and city planners to consider their decisions» health impacts.

As temperatures rise and megastorms smash into the coasts more often, to what extent should planners and builders of modern cities prepare for once - in - a-century disruptions?

I am an accomplished Design Architect / City Planner,, celebarating my 50th year as one.

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.

For example, during a unit on the environment, my students acted as city park planners.

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.

The publishing program brings together new manuscripts (Teaching Land Use Planning as a Science, Landscapes, The Planner and the Small Planet) with the revision of two books published in 2004, «Città Tecnologie Ambiente (Cities Technologies Environment)» and in 2008, «Urbanistica.

City planners are even pondering a temporary Chicago - style shoreline ferris wheel as a tourist attraction — all in an effort to continue to grow this community's «fun factor» says Montemayor.

, 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.»

I wasn't able to finish (for financial reasons) so I went to work for a local city as a land use planner.

While what you always try to know at the start of the year is the Roth IRA rates, it's time for you to realize that these plans can also work as efficient savings accounts as deemed by Ben James who is a certified Oregon City financial planner.

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

Available in English, French and Flemish, Trip Planner provides valuable information on Paris and London to first timers as well as appealing to regular visitors to the cities who long to sample something new and exciting.

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Unfortunately, it is hard for some of us who know the city's history to walk around the museum and not recognize that the growth in wealth that has funded these donations of artworks (and the expansion itself) has, as a side effect, resulted in the displacement of people whose lives were rooted here and disruption to local residents which local planners have failed to address.

In her work City Lights (Dead Horse Bay)(2016), Lena Henke sculpts, in bronze and wood, the New York City skyline as molded by twentieth - century city planner Robert Moses, alluding to what was discarded in the wake of his plCity Lights (Dead Horse Bay)(2016), Lena Henke sculpts, in bronze and wood, the New York City skyline as molded by twentieth - century city planner Robert Moses, alluding to what was discarded in the wake of his plCity skyline as molded by twentieth - century city planner Robert Moses, alluding to what was discarded in the wake of his plcity planner Robert Moses, alluding to what was discarded in the wake of his plans.

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

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.

Architects and city planners like Wright (American, 1867 - 1959) took it as their responsibility to begin working on how best to tackle the expansion before it got out of hand.

That's just the point: Visualizations such as this help city planners make better informed decisions about the program, eventually leading to a more robust, more efficient, service for cycling citizens.

On the one hand Jim Keogan states that setting energy performance standards is a building regulation matter, while on the other hand he recently justified the 2007 variation — made when he was deputy city planner — as an interim measure until the amended Part L came into effect.

By the time Shibley arrived in 1982, Buffalo was a textbook case of urban decay — one reason he moved was that the Rust Belt city «had every problem as an urban designer and a planner that I'd want to study.»

As extreme weather events become more common, city planners must learn to work with nature, and quickly.

Actual planners with their cities on the line take it as conservative.

McShane shows just how this attitude can go when he describes Halle Neustadt, which some Swedish urban planners once described as «the most sustainable city in the world.»

Intended as a climate change preparedness resource for planners, policymakers, and the public, the 600 - page «ClimAID» report, written by scientists from Cornell University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York, says New Yorkers should begin preparing for hotter summers, snowier winters, severe floods, and a range of other effects on the environment, communities, and human health.