Sentences with phrase «critical city infrastructure»
«Closing Rikers Island also provides a unique opportunity to redevelop the island,» the report observes, with the most promising future uses including an extension of La Guardia Airport to create a third runway, or a new hub of critical city infrastructure such as water and waste treatment centers, research facilities and a public greenway.
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«Toronto has many of the critical elements to become a digital media capital,» says Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics and professor of management at the Rotman School of Management, noting the city's access to quality talent, good infrastructure and strong universities, as well as its large media presence.
The case is even stronger where IoT vulnerabilities affect the critical infrastructure (e.g., Israeli researchers recently demonstrated that they could take over all the smart lightbulbs in a city the size of Paris by attacking only one).
Attacking cities» power grids, transportation arteries or other critical infrastructure, while leaving rural areas untouched, could result in a significant advantage for one candidate over another.
Cities across Canada should sell their electricity distribution companies and invest the proceeds in critical municipal infrastructure, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report.
[T] he income tax surcharge that Mayor de Blasio has proposed for the most financially prosperous among us, vested stakeholders in this city, and its critical infrastructure, is a plan all New Yorkers can rally around to meet the long - term needs of our subways.
I look forward to working on a bipartisan basis with members of the Assembly to support passage of this critical legislation, SWAP, and acquire the necessary funding to upgrade our city's infrastructure,» said Troy City Council President Carmella Mantecity's infrastructure,» said Troy City Council President Carmella ManteCity Council President Carmella Mantello.
ISIS has rapidly expanded its control over Iraq and Syria by seizing towns and cities near major supply routes, critical infrastructure and border crossings.
Infrastructure upgrades are critical to the economic engines of our borough and our city and to remain competitive.
Both Onondaga County and the city of Syracuse will not be receiving a technical rescue and urban search and rescue grant, and will also not be receiving a critical infrastructure grant.
«Parks are critical pieces of infrastructure, as essential to the health of our city as quality roads, schools and sewers,» Kelly said.
«Our city needs new lines of revenue to address critical infrastructure needs,» said Hoylman.
Our voices were heard on critical issues such as the need to enhance community input on the siting of Wi - Fi kiosks, as well as on investing revenue from the deal into infrastructure improvements that will help our City close the digital divide for Brooklynites and all New Yorkers.
«A tax for New York City's highest earners to help fund critical services like education, health care, and infrastructure.»
«Prior to the announcement of funding support from the province and the City of London, the community had lost two biotechnology companies to other areas in Canada that offered the infrastructure as well as some critical mass,» Crowley explains.
«The university receives secure access to a small portion of our fibre optic infrastructure and The City may benefit in the future by leveraging the secure encryption keys generated out of the lab's research to protect our critical infrastructure,» said Andruschak.
In the last several years, through the direct assistance of city departments, the district has been able to institute new behavioral health supports, create 12 new community schools, improve out - of - school time programming, increase early literacy, better prepare children for kindergarten, bring critical infrastructure repair, and end the teachers» contract stalemate.
She is Co-Chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), a body of experts convened by the mayor to advise the city on adaptation for its critical infrastructCity Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), a body of experts convened by the mayor to advise the city on adaptation for its critical infrastructcity on adaptation for its critical infrastructure.
Finally, there's our vulnerability to heavy rainfall events, in this case exacerbated by the city's rapid expansion that has paved over former grasslands, overloaded critical infrastructure, challenged urban planning, and limited evacuation routes.
Miami was founded little more than one century ago, and could face the possibility of sea level rise high enough to potentially threaten the city's critical infrastructure in another century (Strauss et al., 2013).
A friend of mine with an interest in critical infrastructure security said one could get an excellent history of Hurricane Sandy as it approached the New York City area, then hit, then was cleaned up after, by reading the tweets from Con Edison, the power company.
He spent seven years working as an IT contractor in the City of London on critical, cutting - edge IT infrastructure and development projects for several major banking, communications and legal organisations.
«Guardtime's unique permissioned blockchain approach to large scale system integrity has tremendous potential to enhance the security of UK critical infrastructure and we are excited to work with the Guardtime team to build solutions that will play a key part in the government's industrial strategy and showcase to the world how cities can be smarter in the future.»
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Project / Technical Manager — EADS, City, ST 2008 — 2010 Provided technical guidance and oversight on the FiReControl project, a critical national infrastructure project that developed IT infrastructure for UK Fire Service, connected 46 local authority systems, reorganized, and produced one highly available coordinated system across entire country.