Sentences with phrase «for urban policy»

Heseltine was appointed to head the cities task force having been responsible for urban policy twice as Environment Secretary under Thatcher and Major.

Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

Not exact matches

«There is some truth to that, because [in] Toronto for example, there is limitation as to where you can build low rise construction,» he said, referring to green belt policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl.

Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.

The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for airport policy reform to align Canada with global best practices, and for our international airports to be factored into transit infrastructure planning by all levels of government.

The principal recommendation of this report was that Canadian governments must step up and collect the necessary data regarding foreign investment in order for policy - makers and the public to understand if foreign investment is playing a significant part in shaping urban real estate pricing and availability.

Rick is a former Chief of Staff for the federal New Democratic Party, and has led many successful campaigns for important new public policies at the federal and provincial levels related to environmental and consumer protection, urban planning, green jobs creation, democratic reform and progressive taxation.

Mr. Carras is of the view that the swift pace of new condo construction in Toronto is simply making up for the decline in construction of single - family homes that is occurring in part because of government policies designed to restrict urban sprawl and promote downtown intensification.

With other members of the Congress for New Urbanism, I contend that the mixed - use walkable neighborhood is the sine qua non of urban design and that it ought to be a focus of both public policy and urban planning, whether such neighborhoods are considered in isolation or in relation to other neighborhoods.

In a speech at the Progressive Policy - Institute, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros made a remarkable statement about what community means for «a modern, big American city and its relationship with a big Washington bureaucracy.»

This is hardly to suggest that everyone must open a farm (although perhaps there's something to be said for the ever - more - visible urban gardening movement), or that our society had better embrace radical policy shifts all at once or else!

Governments in most Third World countries, supported by development policies in First and Second World countries, have been concerned about supplying sophisticated forms of energy for industrialization and urban life.

As urban policy analysts John Gilderbloom and Richard Appelbaum observe, for example, Houston would seem from a conservative's viewpoint to have been a near - perfect environment for creating affordable housing in the «80s.

This Network has collaboratively developed as a key strategic priority the development and implementation of an Urban and Regional Food Charter for Victoria, as a systemic and integrated text to drive forward legislative and policy change and shape practice across the state.

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On November 7th in Cork City, Young Knocknaheeny will bring together leading experts, policy makers, practitioners, and participants to share and connect the science, policy, and interdisciplinary practice across the domains of child development, health, equality, urban development, and change practices for whole community prevention and early intervention.

The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute applauds the Mayor, the City Council, the Office of School Food and Nutrition Services, and all of the advocates in the Lunch For Learning Campaign who have worked so hard to bring us to this day,» said Jan Poppendieck, Senior Fellow, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and author, Free For All: Fixing School Food in America.

At 8:45 a.m., Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, NYU's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Appleseed Inc hold breakfast forum, which includes the unveiling of a new report «Downtown Rising: How Brooklyn became a Model for Urban Development» and remarks from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, The Puck Bldg, 295 Lafayette St., Manhattan.

The European Union's regional policy and multi-level arrangement of governance have provided an important instrumentarium, as well as likely platform, for such para-diplomatic activities on the basis of growing urban — especially metropolitan — consciousness as places «that matter» (more than the rest).

Also, major global policy initiatives now hang in the equilibrium as a result of the recent uproar: for example, the EU - Canada (CETA) and EU - US trade deals (TTIP may soon fall victim to extensive campaigning by transnational anti-globalization movements, which has resulted in mass urban demonstrations in numerous countries participating in the deal.

Today, State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and State Senator Daniel Squadron released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s decision that changes to the Section 8 Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) policy — which could have had severe unintended consequences for NYC Section 8 tenants — will not apply to cities with low vacancy rates, like NYC.

Molly Dillon, who was a policy adviser for urban affairs, justice and opportunity on Obama's Domestic Policy Council, is now a Cuomo senior policy adpolicy adviser for urban affairs, justice and opportunity on Obama's Domestic Policy Council, is now a Cuomo senior policy adPolicy Council, is now a Cuomo senior policy adpolicy adviser.

The Democratic governor, who is positioning himself for a possible 2020 presidential run, would pay an estimated $ 31,830 in taxes under the provisions of the new tax bill, according to online calculators run by the Tax Foundation and Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.

Whilst showering praise on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for scrapping the «nuisance levy» imposed by the previous government on head porters (kayayei) and for its determination to stem the tide of rural - urban migration through the one - district - one - factory and one - village - one - dam policies, the organisation also called for a probe into the running of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).

Arianna Giovannini is Senior Lecturer in Local Politics in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, where she is a member of the Local Governance Research Unit (LRGU) and the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA).

At 10 a.m., AARP, the Asian American Federation, Hispanic Federation, NAACP and Urban League join Tony Award - winning actress Priscilla Lopez, Senator Jesse Hamilton and Assembly Members Marcos Crespo and Yuh - Line Niou for launch of policy solutions agenda to address disparities in health, economic security and livability that are hurting New York state's communities of color; City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

Carrion did say, «Neglect is not a policy for America's urban areas,» and added that we need «a policy looking at metropolitan areas, not just cities.»

Brown earned a doctorate in education from New York University, served as president of Bronx Community College and later directed the CUNY Center for Urban Education Policy.

These disparate voting patterns in cities across the country point to the distinct concerns and outlook of different urban areas, driven by divergent economic fortunes — and therefore the need for greater variation in policy - making to address the needs of different places.

That spot went instead to Vicki Been, formerly the head of New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy — which has also been somewhat critical of mandatory inclusionary zoning in its studies of programs in the San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Kim Rueben, a senior fellow at the liberal - leaning Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center, said it remains to be seen whether the IRS would allow deductions for that kind of contribution if it's rewarded with tax credits.

The comparative framework included the seminal work of German and Japanese urban climatologists, as well as the more recent climate policy initiatives of New York City and the City of Manchester.The project was a collaboration between MARC and the Centre for History of Science Technology and Medicine.

Mitchell Moss, Director, Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, Henry Hart Rice Professor Urban Policy and Planning at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Democrats are successful in urban districts because their policies accept a variety different social groups (GLBT rights, pathways to citizenship for immigrants, etc.).

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

Research for the Centre for Policy Studies by Conservative MP Philip Dunne has revealed how Gordon Brown has used his control of the nation's purse strings to tilt the growth of funding towards urban Britain - much of it Labour's heartlands.

«The need [for infrastructure improvements] is clearly tremendous,» said Adam Forman, a senior researcher at the Manhattan - based public policy think tank Center for an Urban Future.

At 8 a.m. Tuesday, the Center for an Urban Future will hold a «policy symposium on the future of middle income jobs in New York City.»

Carrion ended up not running for comptroller, opting instead to become director of the newly created White House Office of Urban Affairs with the White House Domestic Policy Council.

The Governor's Airport Advisory Panel is charged with producing recommendations on redesigns and modernization for our region's airports, and is comprised of the following appointees by the Governor: Amanda Burden, former commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning; Tony Collins, co-chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Jose Gomez - Ibanez, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard's Graduate School of Design; Queens Borough President Melinda Katz; DanTishman, CEO of Tishman Construction Corporation; Jacqueline Snyder, former head of the New York City Public Design Commission; John Zuccotti, co-chair of Brookfield Office Properties.

Under attack from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy — who gave him an «F for new ideas» and accused him of plagiarism — Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley blamed his campaign staff Thursday for copying language from Internet sources into an urban policy proposal that he released a day earlier.

The Daily News» Liz Benjamin reports that Sen. - elect Pedro Espada would consider entering a possible special election for borough president (if current BP Adolfo Carroin officially lands a White House urban policy gig) if his demand for a significant leadership position is not met.

Department of City Planning Director and City Planning Commission Chair Carl Weisbrod is stepping down to chair the Trust for Governors Island, and Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been will return to her previous job teaching at New York University and directing NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.

«Bill de Blasio is now seen as the flagship for a potential urban - policy enlightenment,» says Adam Green, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, the million - member group that was a key early fund - raiser for Warren.

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

«We are already struggling with the number of cars we have in the streets of our cities; congestion, air pollution, road safety issues, health impacts from people driving all the time,» said Luc Nadal, technical director for urban development at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

Some of these policy strategies have been enumerated recently, all of which focus on reducing caloric intake or increasing physical activity, and include taxes on calorically dense, nutritionally sparse foods (eg, sugar - sweetened beverages); subsidies for healthier foods, especially in economically disadvantaged groups; agricultural policy changes; and urban planning aimed at encouraging walking and other modes of physical activity.

«Without HOV policies, urban traffic gets much, much worse: A simple solution for terrible traffic.»

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.