Sentences with phrase «from urban infrastructure»

Modernizing power plants far away from urban infrastructure is a tough task.

Not exact matches

China could allow local government to issue more special bonds to support government spending on urban redevelopment and infrastructure investment to shore up domestic demand, said Xing from Morgan Stanley.

In 2012, the group spearheaded a collaboration with industry and academic scientists to better quantify methane emissions and identify leaky infrastructure, from the wellhead all the way to the urban distribution system.

Apart from air pollution reduction, other benefits of urban green infrastructure include urban heat island mitigation, the potential reduction in energy consumption, better stormwater management, and climate change mitigation.

The second author of the paper, Dr Gururaja K V from the Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning at the Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, had observed that another species of frogs, known as the Ochlandra reed frog (Raorchestes ochlandrae), breeds in internodes of bamboo.

Currently, when transportation and urban planners evaluate alternative infrastructure investments and policies, they may need to account for health effects from local air quality, a consideration that warrants further planning to avoid negative outcomes, according to the researchers.

The more detailed understanding of urban heat islands provided by the study can help health professionals and others target efforts to protect people and infrastructure from heat - related problems, according to project co-leads Tracy Twine and Peter Snyder, associate professors in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.

They explore several new and long - standing concepts in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design from the creation of great urban landscapes, urban ecologies, and landscape infrastructure.

They explore several new and long - standing concepts in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design from the creation of great urban landscapes, urban ecologies, and landscape infrastructure.

His talk about «edu - localism» connects with his usual arguments about how improved transit infrastructure in urban settings makes everything better — he wants kids to be able to easily commute across town to access better schools that might be far from the neighborhoods they live in.

Is there anything holding Monadelphous back from establishing a presence in urban infrastructure?

They explore several new and long - standing concepts in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design from the creation of great urban landscapes, urban ecologies, and landscape infrastructure.

The exhibition also features publications produced in the Hudson Valley on rural and urban food infrastructures installed in the CCS Bard Bulletin Board, and a presentation of objects from the CCS Bard library and Special Collections that deal with the transformation of landscapes via farming, architecture, ecology, mapping, and food culture.

Composed from the hoods and bumpers, fenders and fins, of junked car bodies, Chamberlain's vividly hued abstractions are also based on a late - Cubist infrastructure and are similarly replete with a dynamic, gritty, urban ethos.

The combination of internal materials of our buildings» infrastructures and objects and images from the urban landscape develops a space for evaluation and refection of Cruzvillegas» acquired readymades contained within the spacial constructs in each piece.

Taking the construction site as a point of departure, López appropriates elements of urban infrastructure from chain - link fencing to orange mesh barriers to lane markers for her graphic intervention in the space.

Tassoultante (shown above), from the series Riad Mirage Club, investigates the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis on the region's urban landscape, traversing ghost towns, abandoned tourism projects and unused infrastructures to point towards wider human and economic narratives.

Preoccupied with developing urban infrastructure, the well - heeled civic leaders of Dallas have long viewed art — especially when supplied by big - name artists from afar — as a boost the city's «world - class» ambitions.

This additional program could be for either teens or seniors dedicated to expanding activities from the neighborhood and accessible through a new bike and walking path, converting the alley into part of an urban infrastructure.»

When it comes to commuting and two - wheeled urban transport, the Dutch know a thing or two about making city bikes (and about making good city bike infrastructure), and from Royal Dutch Gazelle, which has been making quality city bikes since 1892, comes a new e-bike entry in the daily rider category.

The processes of land subdivision and development set in place urban features that last for millenia (the layout of streets in Rome, London, Florida etc), and so it is sensible today to start building all new infrastructure (roading layouts, utilities etc) to facilitate a logical response to the progressive sea level rise and withdrawl from the coastal areas.

Asia's urban population is set to soar from 1.9 billion in 2011 to 3.3 billion by 2050, a shift that is expected to place considerable strain on the continent's physical infrastructure — roads, energy, food and water resources, waste management capabilities — as well as the ability of leaders to manage this urbanisation effectively.

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.

This activity report analyzes the results from a conducted a public opinion survey in 2013, in five cities in Latin America to learn about citizens» perceptions about quality of life, urban infrastructure needs and public services.

The programme contains 30 objectives and 35 actions ranging from extending the heatwave response plan to increasing green infrastructure and urban agriculture.

Due to the low status of urban agriculture and the usual exclusive focus on food imported from rural areas and the exterior, the creation of infrastructure for direct local marketing of fresh urban produced food and local small processing of locally produced food has received little attention in most cities.

In contrast, while many African countries experience a similar trend in rapid urban coastal growth, the level of economic development is generally lower and consequently the capacity to adapt is smaller Coastal industries, their supporting infrastructure including transport (ports, roads, rail and airports), power and water supply, storm water and sewerage are highly sensitive to a range of extreme weather and climate events including temporary and permanent flooding arising from extreme precipitation, high winds, storm surges and sea level rise.

Modal choice: Shifting transport options to more efficient modes is possible, (such as from private cars to public transport, walking, and cycling), and can be encouraged by urban planning and the development of a safe and efficient infrastructure.

In urban environments, there is air pollution from infrastructure, buildings and vehicles burning fossil fuels, and from dust.

Read the research study, «Methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure and use in the urban region of Boston, Massachusetts».

If I have a network of heat sources (aka urban structures, infrastructure, items, etc) then there is a certain production rate of heat from each source, totally independent of any boundary conditions or conditions intermediate between source and external boundaries.

* Make solar energy economical * Provide energy from fusion * Develop carbon sequestration methods * Manage the nitrogen cycle * Provide access to clean water * Restore and improve urban infrastructure * Advance health informatics * Engineer better medicines * Reverse - engineer the brain * Prevent nuclear terror * Secure cyberspace * Enhance virtual reality * Advance personalized learning * Engineer the tools of scientific discovery

For anyone who's lived here, it really doesn't take an expert to recognize that the island - state has a number of things going for it: a contained urban area (the longest east - west stretch is just over 40 km and north - south stretch about 20 km), one of the most efficient and reliable electrical grids, sophisticated IT sector, ambitions to remain at the forefront of maintaining its already world - class transportation infrastructure, and a top - down policy environment which will ensure rapid deployment of a complicated and ambitious system once there is buy - in from the top.

Moreover, these communities are often subjected to urban flooding resulting from inadequate stormwater management or, worse still, infrastructure that combines stormwater with sewage overflows inundating people's homes and presenting risks to both health and property.

However there is a definitive guide to building better bike infrastructure, the just - released second edition of the Urban Bikeway Design Guide from the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), published by Island Press.

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment — using the same infrastructure human city - dwellers rely on to get from place to place.

Topos covers a broad range of topics and scales, from urban landscapes to rural areas, from infrastructure to gardens.

They explore several new and long - standing concepts in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design from the creation of great urban landscapes, urban ecologies, and landscape infrastructure.

Topos covers a broad range of topics and scales, from urban landscapes to rural areas, from infrastructure to gardens.

They explore several new and long - standing concepts in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design from the creation of great urban landscapes, urban ecologies, and landscape infrastructure.

While the 100RC programme identifies 11 shocks, from a nuclear incident to civil unrest, the one that stands out for Evangelinos in terms of a vibrant downtown is the possibility of «financial and / or economic crisis», while possible stresses (from a list of 37) could include aging infrastructure, crime, homelessness, lack of affordable housing, traffic congestion, uncontrolled urban development and an undiversified economy.

An open source guide, the Community Energy Implementation Framework, designed to help communities move Community Energy Plans from a vision to implementation, was released today in beta at QUEST2016 — Smart Energy Communities for Jobs, Infrastructure and Climate Action by the Community Energy Association, QUEST — Quality Urban Energy Systems of Tomorrow, and Sustainable Prosperity.

«We are strategically allocating capital out of 2445 M Street and into Arlington Tower to improve our long - term growth prospects in a resurging Rosslyn... Our research indicates that Rosslyn is at an inflection point with rising rents and declining vacancy as it transitions from a 9 to 5 Federal Government and contractor hub into a 24 - hour urban destination with the demographics, amenities and infrastructure to attract top - tier corporations.»