Sentences with phrase «infrastructure human city»
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.
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In wartime the GNP soars; nothing is subtracted for the destruction of cities and infrastructure, much less for the loss of human life.
The Council identified eight major priorities in its response: increased investment in city youth; investment in healthcare, education, jobs and legal services for immigrants; specific funding for the diverse communities; capital investment in infrastructure; creating a Rainy Day Fund and adding to existing reserves; baselining essential city services; expanding criminal justice, community support, and human services; and more accurately tracking city agency performance.
This is why we need to protect buildings as well as humans in cities in future urban planning, so the strategic placing of hedges, trees and other green infrastructure can have a direct benefit as an air pollution control measure in cities.»
She discusses the mechanics of quakes, the increase in human - induced tremors, the ways cities are safeguarding infrastructures (or not) against damage, and advances in technology that make these fleeting but powerful phenomena easier to predict.
Bettencourt and his colleagues at Arizona State University (A.S.U.), Dresden University of Technology in Germany and New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute, modeled the growth of a city according to three categories of factors: material infrastructure (road surfaces, electrical cable, etc.), human needs (such as total energy consumption and housing) and patterns of social activity, including total bank deposits, research and development, new cases of AIDS and new patents filed.
However I did look at what would happen after that in relative, rather than absolute time, by featuring not only changes in geography, but in chapter by chapter fashion looking at trends in human population, agriculture, coastal city infrastructure (all those buried wires!)
In his street photography Martin emphasizes the contrast between the soft fluid human shape and the hard and static fabric of city infrastructure.
«We're now seeing cities really attempting to provide a more holistic lifestyle, a stronger emphasis on the human capital and social capital, ICT infrastructure and being more sustainable.
These changes will pose various challenges to the city, threatening homes, infrastructure, and human health and safety.
This is not because humans could not live, and perhaps thrive, under a different climate regime, but because our whole civilization with its attendant infrastructure of cities, roads, farms, etc. has evolved to be as well adapted as possible to the current climate.
Dense urban human settlement — the cities of the world and the buildings and infrastructure that comprise them — account for a significant percentage of human energy use, mostly for heating and cooling.
In his street photography Martin emphasizes the contrast between the soft fluid human shape and the hard and static fabric of city infrastructure.
In his street photography Martin emphasizes the contrast between the soft fluid human shape and the hard and static fabric of city infrastructure.
The Alliance notes the comments by Prime Minister Turnbull about the infrastructure and human capital of Australia's cities having been, in some respects, ignored.
Cities are «smart» when infrastructure, urban assets, public services, human and social capital, mobility systems and other forces are improved and optimised under ICT.