Sentences with phrase «century urban challenges»
At 11 a.m. Monday, Mayor de Blasio will deliver opening remarks to the 2017 Urban Resilience Summit, a conference convening leaders of the Rockefeller Foundation «to spur new solutions and collaborate on best practices to tackle 21st century urban challenges.»
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Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and her chief of staff returned from London today after a three - day conference swapping ideas with other urban leaders about the challenges facing 21st - century cities.
Their justification reflects an unwarranted deference to the status quo, a surprising dearth of vision in tackling emergent challenges, and a lack of appreciation for the half - century failure of America's urban districts.
It is what he calls the most challenging urban - design problem of the 21st century.
Making cities smarter with ePaper As technologically advanced urban areas, designed to take on 21st century challenges, smart cities have the potential to meet the needs of a global urban population growing at an astonishing 3 million people per week.
«The Crissy Field Center hosted the first AGO youth listening session in the Bay Area where 200 youth attended to discuss challenges and potential solutions on how to engage youth and urban residents in the outdoors in the 21st century,» said Pepito.
His fascination with New York's gritty urban landscape, its technological marvels and the diversity of its inhabitants, made him both an artist of the modern city and an insightful observer of the dynamic and challenging decades of the early 20th century.
This is one of the main challenges with the urban heat island problem — it is harder to keep enough staff to maintain a continuous temperature record at an isolated rural location for a century (or longer) than in the heart of a thriving metropolis.
Integrating all changes that may occur on a watershed with the potential to impact coastal pH downstream (e.g. changes in land use, nutrient export, changes in runoff, changes in industrial and urban exports of alkalinity, mining activities) over a century timescale is challenging.