Sentences with phrase «by city planners»

«The tiny houses have been very well received, both by tiny house owners and enthusiasts, but also by the city planners and officials we've spoken to,» John added.
In response to concerns by East Village residents and local elected officials that the development might convert their artistic neighborhood into a sterile business campus, [64] Cooper Union altered the building designs and sizes that were then approved by city planners.
Uber is opening up in an area where it might make sense competitively for it to stay more closed off: The ride - hailing company's new Movement website will offer up access to its data around traffic flow in scores where it operates, intended for use by city planners and researchers looking into ways to improve urban mobility.

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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.
Based on his continuum, Piper concludes that a female city planner, who indirectly leads men by designing traffic patterns, exhibits influence that is non-personal «and therefore not necessarily an offense against God's order.»
Instead, Super Bowl attendees will walk into a two - year - old stadium that is widely hated by San Francisco 49ers fans, while NFL, stadium and city planners grit their teeth and hope for the best.
In recent years — and especially since former city planner David Doig became parks general superintendent three years ago — the Park District has followed the plan by increasing the acquisition of parkland.
It was a wish to preserve the natural heritage from the encircling suburbia that inspired planners to revive an idea initially devised by Ebenezer Howard for his Garden Cities.
A subterranean survey taken by former city planner and civil engineer Bob Pritchard some 35 years ago concluded that it would take upwards of $ 50 million to modernize the system.
Panelists at the town hall, which will be moderated by Professor Mordecai Goldfeder, senior health and medical planner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM), will include experts from the Brooklyn Hospital Center, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Doctors Council SEIU, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene.
The rezoning envisioned by the local community would only be feasible if the allowable residential floor area is increased, city planners have advised.
Marcie Kesner, a planner with the firm Kramer Levin, first presented the plans at a meeting hosted by City Councilman Brad Lander in 2017.
By Sean Ryan Cudahy can support only one big - box retail store, leaving planners debating whether such a project should be built on the city's Iceport property or on land near the edge of town.
So the planners enlisted the help of a complex algorithm built by media design firm Local Projects and New York City — based software artist Jer Thorp.
The researchers say their model can be used by other cities that have good geospatial data on sunlight and tree cover if planners input the relevant crops that grow well in a particular area.
This analysis may help city planners determine the best locations to focus tree - planting efforts, while helping them realize that the strategy of adding trees needs to be complemented by other reduction and energy - conservation efforts if their communities are to reach their carbon - reduction targets.
After years of delays, library supporters are heartened by the presence of Ismail Serageldin, an Egyptian economist and city planner and former vice president of the World Bank, who took over this spring.
City planners in Quito, Ecuador's capital, are looking to the Amazon to replace water supplied by dwindling glaciers.
Equipped with this sort of information, city planners can better design cities by creating green spaces or building «cooling centers» — places where those lacking air conditioners can shelter during extreme weather — in the most heat - vulnerable neighborhoods.
The plot involves a convoluted one by a shadowy group to save Gotham City by destroying it, the villains no doubt having taken a leaf out of the military planners of the Vietnam war's book.
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.
The Bright Ideas Challenge is a new national, curriculum linked schools competition, which will challenge young people age 11 - 14 to assume the role of future scenarios planners and to use their STEM learning to imagine creative solutions to the types of energy challenges that cities in 2050 will face (by 2050 it's estimated that 3 out of four of us will live in cities).
DOT has improved walkability of our communities across the nation, by giving local leaders, city planners and parents the tools to keep pedestrians safe.
First, there was the bulldozer of Bridget Jones's Diary, followed by Sex and the City and the books of Jennifer Weiner, and all of their filmed equivalents and knockoffs and offshoots, from The Wedding Planner to Bride Wars, The Devil Wears Prada to Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Still, city planners continue to push for development in neighbourhoods closer to the downtown core — and this may be the reason why the No. 2 spot was taken by the southeastern neighbourhoods of Ritchie, Hazeldean and King Edward Park.
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.
The new committee would include the city planner, city engineer, city fire marshal and other members appointed by the city manager.
Funk Zone Meeting, April 6, 2012 Hosted by The Arts Fund, thank you Nina Dunbar Notes prepared by Bettie Weiss, City Planner
Built around 1850 by famed city planner Baron Georges Haussman, this seven - story boutique hotel just a short walk from the Place de la Madeleine unites... Read More
An example of New Urbanism architecture, the Town was developed by Dart Realty in collaboration with an exceptional team of visionaries, including architects, city planners, landscape designers, and artisans.
With its 1,230 square meters of banquet space, including a 700 - square meter grand ballroom, the hotel is proud to introduce the Renaissance Hotels «Intriguing Meetings» concept to the city by offering meeting planners a variety of amenities and Renaissance signature experiences including RLife LIVE, Renaissance Hotels hospitality entertainment program.
Christina DiOrio, wedding planner at Maine's luxurious Inn by the Sea located on sandy Crescent Beach in Cape Elizabeth, just 7 miles south of Portland's urban chic small port city is ready to help in any way.
In connection with this project, Almarcegui reveals that «My preliminary research consisted in talking to Venetian city planners and architects who told me about their future plans, which allowed me to locate the wastelands and empty plots that would be affected by those transformations.
[7] In the 1960s, city planners decided to move the foodmarkets of Les Halles, historically significant structures long prized by Parisians, with the idea that some of the cultural institutes be built in the former market area.
Peer behind the Iron Curtain to see how creativity resists conformity by way of a city planner turned photographer.
Most city planners and architects in Atlanta share one major beef with John Portman: His megastructures internalized downtown life to the point that there was little left to enliven the streets (a trend epitomized by his trademark «aerial sidewalks»).
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.
Addressed to minister of culture Monika Grütters, the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage, and Senate building director Regula Lüscher, the petition was spearheaded by Kristin Feireiss, cofounder of the architectural forum Aedes, and it currently has more than five hundred signatories including architects, city planners, artists, and publicists.
They all make Vancouver just such a wonderful city to be in (helped by mountains and water and views to die for at every turn) and the video is done with Clarence's usual skill, but I had a serious epiphany at about 6:15 when planner Brent Toderian says:
Women's vital contribution, however, has largely been neglected by city officials, economic planners and development practitioners, who have tended to concentrate on the industrialization of food production.
One of the luxuries of setting up a new city from scratch, adds Arup's Claris, is that planners can «design out» journeys by creating mixed - use developments, where residential areas are close to offices, factories, shops, healthcare facilities, schools and other amenities.
But although the policy was voted through by a near unanimous 35 to 4 majority, city planner Jim Keogan had notified councillors prior to the vote of potential legal concerns over the policy, and argued that he couldn't put such a policy in the plan.
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.»
Developed collaboratively with city transportation departments, bike share experts, planners, outreach specialists, system operators, and equipment vendors from a variety of North American cities, the techniques recommended by the Guide have been proven in real - world practice.
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.
Sea level rise is happening everywhere, as ice caps and glaciers melt and the seas rise in response to global warming driven by prodigal human combustion of fossil fuels, and researchers have advanced from general warning to the kind of detail that could help city and state planners prepare to cope with flood risks.
People are fighting to save it (architecture students are threatening to chain themselves to it) but the wimpy gutless excuse for a city planner Stephen Mikicich says «In the end, this is private property we're talking about, so we're really looking to encourage conservation by the tools that are available to us.»
Creating infrastructure to accommodate free - range play may sound like an oxymoron, but it is absolutely necessary and should be taken into consideration by city and town planners.
The event brought academics, planners, and policymakers together for the ninth time in one of the world's largest cities to try and find solutions to the problems shared by urban areas from Mumbai to Mexico City.
As Beijing's car population grows with its ring roads (Beijing is now hitting its sixth ring), stretching and clogging the city, planners are worried; by 2020 they are aiming for a subway web 561 km big, which will be wider than that of London's (if not, we imagine, more sublime than Moscow's aging soviet underground).
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