Sentences with phrase «for city planners»

According to the Census, metro migration data can be useful for city planners and members of the local government, as well as local businesses to track residential turnover in their area so they can plan for new infrastructure projects and programs to accommodate new residents and employers.

If Masdar is a success, it will raise the bar for city planners, architects and elected officials around the world.

This analytical document was developed for city planners to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the local level.

This technical document complements the Planning for Climate Change: A strategic values - based approach for urban planners, a resource and planning guide developed for city planners and other professionals to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the local level.

This manual provides practical tools for city planners and decision makers to reform urban planning and infrastructure design according to the principles of eco-efficiency and social inclusiveness.

for city planners and organizations working to boost the Cleveland area's resilience to climate change.

More tree planting is already on the to - do list for city planners and organizations working to boost the Cleveland area's resilience to climate change.

The rise of navigation apps is causing problems for city planners due drivers being re-routed to residential areas.

People are fighting to save it (architecture students are threatening to chain themselves to it) but the wimpy gutless excuse for a city planner Stephen Mikicich says «In the end, this is private property we're talking about, so we're really looking to encourage conservation by the tools that are available to us.»

Not exact matches

Ali belongs to a new generation of urban planners taping into the rising demand for the services of a profession whose fortunes are tied to surging property development markets as well as the growth in city - building activity across Canada.

Take this quote from Daniel Burnham, the city planner largely responsible for Chicago's 20th century growth and very successful 1893 World's Fair:

Seattle - based map - maker and urban planner Jeffrey Linn has released a series of city maps including one for Vancouver, showing how rising sea levels might drastically change coastal living.

Under the new plan, «There are more buildings, and more spread out than the existing large, single - structure mall pattern,» said Lisa Spadoni, principal planner for the city.

Uber is opening up in an area where it might make sense competitively for it to stay more closed off: The ride - hailing company's new Movement website will offer up access to its data around traffic flow in scores where it operates, intended for use by city planners and researchers looking into ways to improve urban mobility.

There are certain key jobs that should be sought: teaching in schools of education, serving as organizers in unions, as lawyers and doctors for the poor, as clergy in various kinds of churches, as city planners, as journalists.

Instead, Super Bowl attendees will walk into a two - year - old stadium that is widely hated by San Francisco 49ers fans, while NFL, stadium and city planners grit their teeth and hope for the best.

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!

The conservancy's goal, Gordon said, is to live up to the city's motto — Urbs in Horto, or City in a Garden — and the legacies of visionary city planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in Chiccity's motto — Urbs in Horto, or City in a Garden — and the legacies of visionary city planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in ChicCity in a Garden — and the legacies of visionary city planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in Chiccity planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in Chicago.

It was a wish to preserve the natural heritage from the encircling suburbia that inspired planners to revive an idea initially devised by Ebenezer Howard for his Garden Cities.

Metro - North Railroad officials apologized for running too few trains into Manhattan this morning, when less snow fell in the city than the railroad's planners anticipated.

A range of groups representing commuters, the construction industry and transportation planners praised the proposal, saying it would reduce bottlenecks on the railroad while allowing more trains to travel from New York City to Long Island for people making the reverse commute.

At NYMTC's annual meeting at the City College of New York in Manhattan, Curran said she looked forward to collaborating with elected officials and transportation planners from around the New York City metropolitan area «to ensure a prosperous future for our entire region.»

But community advocates, city planners and business groups have expressed concerns about the changes for a number of reasons: from how much manufacturing space needs to be set aside and who will make sure that the space is being used how it's intended, to the affordability of those spaces.

Panelists at the town hall, which will be moderated by Professor Mordecai Goldfeder, senior health and medical planner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM), will include experts from the Brooklyn Hospital Center, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Doctors Council SEIU, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene.

But four city planners whose jobs have been transferred to a newly consolidated city - county planning operation will get pay increases of from $ 6,000 to $ 17,000 for doing the same work they do now.

«I ran for NYC Council in 1997 after a career as a teacher, city planner, small business owner, district manager of a community board, and having held a number of civic leadership roles.»

Hein's contribution was to loan a senior county planner to the city for three months to help fill out the application for state funding.

Some planners support the idea as a solution to New York's affordability crisis, as the move could enable the city to zone certain areas for extremely dense residential developments with tens of thousands of affordable apartments.

For decades urban planners, city officials and others have pursued the idea of charging drivers to enter the most congested areas of Manhattan.

For decades, urban planners, economists, city officials and business leaders have revived again and again some version of a toll system both to manage the city's worsening traffic and provide more revenue for public transFor decades, urban planners, economists, city officials and business leaders have revived again and again some version of a toll system both to manage the city's worsening traffic and provide more revenue for public transfor public transit.

Masdar aims to be the source for a environmentally friendly urban future, but some planners doubt it offers much for other cities to emulate

Forward - thinking city planners, knowing that more and more drivers and cars are taking to the roads every day, are loathe to encourage more private automobiles when mass transit options are so much better for people and the environment.

The study's senior author, Charles C. Branas, PhD, professor of Epidemiology and director of the Urban Health Lab at Penn, observes, «This research on greening urban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residents.

The findings highlight the need to reconsider flood maps that Oregon city planners use for development.

But city planners believe it is the model for 21st - century American cities in the way it is becoming decentralised — and they are increasingly worried about how to curb people's reliance on their cars.

Planners had already suspected many of the study's findings, but the research provides empirical support for the theories and suggests that natural rules may guide the self - organization of cities.

Barthelemy says the model could also come in handy for estimating traffic delays, gas consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, so that urban planners and policy makers can better understand how those different factors evolve as a city grows.

It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

Since World War II, politicians and planners have shaped cities with no regard for resource use or ecological concerns.

«Resilience» is a key word for a spectrum starting with collapseniks all the way to big city Mayors and regional planners.

As temperatures rise and megastorms smash into the coasts more often, to what extent should planners and builders of modern cities prepare for once - in - a-century disruptions?

I quit my full - time job while I was contracted for a few different wedding planners in the Twin Cities.

Former students returning to the Open Academy included Louis Kaszczak, European Partnerships Director at United Health Group — Global Markets, Darren Douglass, Practitioner Planner for EDF Energy Engineering Investment Delivery Team, Michaela Rudling, Head of Performing Arts at Open Youth Trust, Maddi Culham a student at Norwich City College, teaching assistant Donna Warman and South Bank University student Farrukh Chughtai.

When city planners in Portland, Oregon, were looking for ideas to make public spaces more inviting to youths across the region, they turned right to the source.

Performance Task Directions: As a city planner, you have been asked to design a new park for residents.

Formerly, she was the City - wide Program Planner for Department of Mental Health, Early Intervention, for New York, and a former faculty researcher for Teachers of a New Era, Carnegie Foundation.

On today's program, Leslie Thatcher speaks to Park City School Board members Phil Kaplan and Nancy Garrison; Jody Churich COO of Woodward Park City and Resort Planner Michael Barille talk about plans for the new Woodward Camp at Gorgoza and Future Park City Founders Angela Moschetta and Sarah Berry have the latest on the Vail Resorts Trademark issue.

Next, Park City Manager Diane Foster and Planner Hannah Tyler preview the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting, which includes a number of proposed amendments to the Land Management Code to address affordable housCity Manager Diane Foster and Planner Hannah Tyler preview the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting, which includes a number of proposed amendments to the Land Management Code to address affordable houscity council meeting, which includes a number of proposed amendments to the Land Management Code to address affordable housing.

«City planners may have a grand scheme for an area, and transportation routes and the extra traffic that will be created must be considered.

For example, during a unit on the environment, my students acted as city park planners.