Sentences with phrase «from city planners»

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Andrew Pask, a 44 - year - old City of Vancouver neighbourhood planner, says he and his colleagues are called in to work on files that range in scale from single - parcel development applications to regional strategies.

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

«Certainly when it comes to investing, it's not something they're very familiar with so they're shying away from doing that,» said Lauren Lyons Cole, New York City - based certified financial planner.

But extensive outreach efforts drew applications from all over the city, and the planners accepted twice as many as expected.

From New York City's bankruptcy to Puerto Rico's insolvency and Third World debtors subjected to IMF «austerity programs,» national bankruptcies shift control to centralized financial planners in what Naomi Klein has called Crisis Capitalism.

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!

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.

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.

«This valuable information can help city planners and the EDC best determine how to overcome challenges and garner increased support and excitement from the community.

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.

However the authors of the study, Professor Michael Hebbert and Dr Vladimir Jankovic from the University of Manchester found that despite all the technology available to them, most planners build cities without an awareness of the atmospheric effects they are creating.

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.

Paul Snyder [email protected] City planners have three years to fit an underground parking garage, hotel, public market and office buildings across the street from a new high - speed rail station in downtown Madison.

The computer models used to generate the maps also estimate where, how often and how strongly ground shaking from an earthquake could occur, so that residents, engineers and city planners can see the likelihood that their community will experience a damaging earthquake over the next year.

Given New York City's vulnerability to flooding and lessons from past storms, should planners have seen these problems coming, and could they have made better choices?

City planners, health researchers and local leaders want more U.S. communities to really work — and to that end, they have begun retrofitting the country, from Atlanta to Sacramento.

But in 1939, when the Soviet Union took control, renaming the city Lvov, the central planners in Moscow decided to close the wells and pipe water in from 70 kilometres away.

«Cities Emit 60 % More Carbon Than Thought A new analysis finds that city planners have been undercounting greenhouse gas emissions from a key contributor.»

THE THING THAT DREW YOU TO THEM: Walkable City came about from a conversation with my roommate who is an urban planner.

The objective of the presentation is to identify the successes and help the education design world learn the key lessons from them in order to deliver new solutions that meet the needs of children and educationalists now and in the future; and to identify the opportunities and challenges for integration into the city that architects and planners are having to address.

The first book in the spin - off series from the popular Billionaire Brothers series.When curvy event planner Heather Lancaster meets Gage Coltson in a New York City hotel, she's instantly attracted to him.

First, there was the bulldozer of Bridget Jones's Diary, followed by Sex and the City and the books of Jennifer Weiner, and all of their filmed equivalents and knockoffs and offshoots, from The Wedding Planner to Bride Wars, The Devil Wears Prada to Confessions of a Shopaholic.

«Frankly, some people in small towns have a negative opinion of people who move there from the big city,» says Lynn Biscott, a certified financial planner in Toronto and author of The Boomers Retire.

7) Sam Kee's revenge: The world's shallowest commercial building is located in Vancouver, B.C. Between 1903 and 1913, city planners expropriated 24 feet of land from the Sam Kee Company (one of the wealthiest merchant's in Chinatown in the early 1900s), so the firm decided to make the most out of the space.

From our elevated vantage point at the museum, our guide dryly pointed out that a school was supposed to have been built there, but the inconvenience of finding an invaluable archaeological site forced city planners to relocate the new school's location further up the road.

Built around 1850 by famed city planner Baron Georges Haussman, this seven - story boutique hotel just a short walk from the Place de la Madeleine unites... Read More

The Mansion Hotel and Spa and Werribee Park offers meeting planners a luxurious boutique getaway in a relaxing rural setting that is just 30 minutes from Melbourne city centre and 40 minutes from Melbourne International Airport This venue is perfect for a truly luxurious getaway or incentive and provides an impressive backdrop for corporate events and conferences.

Mercure North Melbourne provides meeting planners with a professional conference hotel environment in a convenient city fringe location, close to Melbourne city centre and only 20 minutes from the Airport.

Park Regis Griffin Suites is a conference hotel that offers meeting planners exceptional value in a convenient and popular location, just over 30 minutes drive from Melbourne Airport and a short tram ride from both the City Centre and St Kilda.

They are also able to provide conciege service from arrqnging a trip to Stingray City or being your on island wedding planner.

The game has already received positive reviews from both critics and gamers on both the PC and the Xbox One and now a whole new audience of city planners can start getting excited.

Some of New York City's leading urban visionaries, architects and planners will discuss how to move forward from the current challenging circumstances of Penn Station and then open the event up to an audience Q&A.

Present at the unveiling were The Director of the V&A, Mark Jones, University of Dundee academics and administrators responsible for the establishment of the project, Sir Alan Langlands and Professor Georgina Follett, Dundee city planners and guests from the Baltic Centre, Gateshead and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Max Gottlieb is an urban planner and arts laborer from New York City, completing a Masters in City & Regional Planning at the Pratt Institute.

Given all the excitement about how fast a 10 - car train can travel from a remote suburb to city centre, or how many people a tram can attract away from their cars, mayors and planners frequently forget about the neighbourhoods and communities that their vehicles stop at.

San Francisco's Nob Hill became a hive of green activity last week, as city planners, activists, academics, public officials, businessmen, students, indigenous leaders and others gathered to discuss issues ranging from veganism as a strategy to end

Cities are expanding at breakneck pace, giving planners great opportunities to plan integrated bicycle infrastructure from the start.

Starting with reduction and donation, Global Green's team is partnering with urban planners, city agencies and community groups to evaluate how food scraps from a specific neighborhoods can be recovered most efficiently through «Distributed Food Scrap Processing Infrastructure» and increasing the use of compost and other products made from food waste.

One of the luxuries of setting up a new city from scratch, adds Arup's Claris, is that planners can «design out» journeys by creating mixed - use developments, where residential areas are close to offices, factories, shops, healthcare facilities, schools and other amenities.

In many South - East Asian cities, the continuity of the existing potential for growing aquatic vegetables and fish using urban wastewater will depend on the city planners» ability to coordinate and develop strategies for effective separation of toxic industrial waste from domestic sewage.

From the perspective of civil engineers and city planners, the capture of rainfall may be the greatest perceived benefit to green roofs.

So, too, are coastal planners in Florida, water managers in the arid Southwest, city dwellers from Phoenix to New York, and Native Peoples on tribal lands from Louisiana to Alaska.

Developed collaboratively with city transportation departments, bike share experts, planners, outreach specialists, system operators, and equipment vendors from a variety of North American cities, the techniques recommended by the Guide have been proven in real - world practice.

Intended as a climate change preparedness resource for planners, policymakers, and the public, the 600 - page «ClimAID» report, written by scientists from Cornell University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York, says New Yorkers should begin preparing for hotter summers, snowier winters, severe floods, and a range of other effects on the environment, communities, and human health.

They worked closely with a panel of urban bikeway planning professionals from NACTO member cities and from numerous other cities worldwide, as well as traffic engineers, planners, and academics with deep experience in urban bikeway applications.

As destructive as the fire was, it means that the group could collect real - world data to test the validity of predictions from their computer - model synthesis and then adjust it to be more useful to city and county planners responsible for mitigating the risk of post-fire flows.

Sea level rise is happening everywhere, as ice caps and glaciers melt and the seas rise in response to global warming driven by prodigal human combustion of fossil fuels, and researchers have advanced from general warning to the kind of detail that could help city and state planners prepare to cope with flood risks.

The event brought academics, planners, and policymakers together for the ninth time in one of the world's largest cities to try and find solutions to the problems shared by urban areas from Mumbai to Mexico City.