Sentences with phrase «examples of urban planning»

Canberra is known as one of the world's greatest examples of urban planning and landscape architecture, thanks to the visionary work of Chicago - born designer Walter Burley Griffin.

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For example, if you want to work for an international relief agency, you may be better suited acquiring a tangible skill such as nursing, urban planning or business administration than obtaining a master's degree in international development (of course, this varies depending on the organization).
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But, as the example of King Farm shows, new urbanism can devolve into the kind of central planning criticized by the very founders of the urban planning school of thought — and can also result in what is essentially a style without substance.
«Houston, for example, is home to one of the largest populations of engineers of any city in the world and is accustomed to engineering its way out of problems without conducting a lot of urban land use planning,» Berke said.
The Los Angeles Unified School District's new strategic plan, for example, calls for a 100 % graduation rate of its students, which, by the way, has never been accomplished in a large urban district.
He pointed to Ford Go Bikes, its urban bike - sharing program, and plans to field fully autonomous ride - hail cars on city streets by 2021 as examples of how the company is moving past its traditional role as an automaker.
In Split Archives, Popović focuses on the city archives of his hometown in Split, Croatia, where the developmental projects became a paradigmatic example of the exceptional urban planning and architectural practices during this time.
Michael Rakowitz's «Dull Roar» (2005) is inspired by the infamously failed Pruitt - Igoe housing project in St. Louis, one of many examples of «utopian» urban planning (typically based on Le Corbusier's residential ideologies) gone wrong.
The legacy of echt - modernist architecture and planning, for example — a creed of formal sobriety in the service of rationalized material (and social) technologies that was uniquely influential on the condition of the twentieth - century urban fabric — has long provided raw material for any number of theoretical and artifactual recapitulations.
A book could be written on the myriad examples of seemingly ludicrous planning department decisions based on municipal bylaws that don't reflect the objectives of urban intensification and housing development needs of all types.
Speaking about the winning property, RIBA President Jane Duncan said: «The Murphy House is this year's best example of how to overcome challenging constraints — from planning restrictions and an awkward site in an urban location — to build a stunning house.
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