Sentences with phrase «decades of urban planning»

Today's built environments reflect decades of urban planning with a few consistent themes — cars and zoning, among them.

Not exact matches

Ivanhoé's U.S. expansion plan is focused on nine key cities with dense urban centres, and the group is behind many of the largest U.S. real estate deals of the past decade.

Borkum will continue a major brand expansion for the Urban Kitchen Group; over the course of the next decade, she plans to launch additional CUCINA concepts across the nation.

The city of Syracuse now has a document to base its urban planning decisions on for the next three decades.

«Willets Point has been a topic of discussion for decades, and it's now been nearly 10 years since the Urban Renewal Plan to redevelop this 61 - acre parcel of untapped land.

For nearly two decades, the urban planning consultant has kept a close watch on the borough's historic buildings and landmarks and has become a known name in the civic association community because of it.

The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association mentioned the idea this week as part of an extensive analysis of how global warming might affect the City by the Bay, which is thought to be highly susceptible to flooding and other dangers in the decades ahead.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

During his school board tenure spanning two decades, Ogden has been an active participant in a plan of action to build and sustain a governance team designed to promote academic achievement in one of the nation's largest urban school districts.

Consider the Winnetka Plan in the 1920s, which individualized instruction; the Project Activity Method in the 1930s, which had small groups of students work together; the growth of gifted education; the mandate for special education since the 1970s; the spread of English language learning efforts in recent decades; and the contemporary «everyone goes to college» movement in urban schools.

Constant, OriëntSector (1959), (metal, ink on Perspex and oil paint on wood): Motivated by the utopian notion that World War II had ushered in a new era in which the automation of all production would bring about a stable, classless society, Dutch artist Constant began a two - decade - long project to devise an appropriately progressive architecture and urban planning practice.

In the span of two decades, technology eradicated a major urban planning nightmare that had strained governments to the breaking point, vexed the media, tormented the citizenry, and brought society to the brink of despair.

While aspects of the decades - long hard coal phaseout have been well managed, according to Dobertin, in the past the «political hesitation» to rapidly roll out a structured recovery plan for the Ruhr has today contributed to a legacy of unemployment in some cities, and urban areas that are still saddled with poor, outdated infrastructure.

Finally, in view of Mexico's climate ambitions as well as the forecast growth of the Mexican economy and population in coming decades, the IEA report encourages the government to incorporate energy and climate considerations into long - term urban development and transport plans.

Urban sprawl has been «eating our planet» for decades now, an unfortunate byproduct of urban planning that caters to the car, rather than pedestrUrban sprawl has been «eating our planet» for decades now, an unfortunate byproduct of urban planning that caters to the car, rather than pedestrurban planning that caters to the car, rather than pedestrians.

The plan was the result of a decade of collaboration among scientists, policy makers, and public stakeholders, with the federal / state governments to restore South Florida's ecosystem and provide water for urban and agricultural uses.