Sentences with phrase «city planners decided»

[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.

Not exact matches

After finishing the first installment of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson biography, The Path to Power, I decided to pick up a copy of Caro's first book, The Power Broker, a biography of notorious New York city planner Robert Moses.

So we hemmed and hawed for over a week and finally decided that we are going to stay put here for a few more years (and make this place more appealing to us and hopefully the next owner too), so I emailed the city planner to make sure permits were still available and he told me they had sold out earlier that week — less than two weeks from when the ordinance went into effect!

But in 1939, when the Soviet Union took control, renaming the city Lvov, the central planners in Moscow decided to close the wells and pipe water in from 70 kilometres away.

Furthermore, at the end of the 1940s the Soviet planners decided to turn the city into an industrial centre.

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.

7) Sam Kee's revenge: The world's shallowest commercial building is located in Vancouver, B.C. Between 1903 and 1913, city planners expropriated 24 feet of land from the Sam Kee Company (one of the wealthiest merchant's in Chinatown in the early 1900s), so the firm decided to make the most out of the space.