Sentences with phrase «many city planners»

As with other transportation - oriented startups, Miovision is finding city planners increasingly receptive to its pitch.

But while city planners have mastered the construction of highrises, food production has remained relatively static; most of what we eat still grows outdoors, on farms well outside the city.

Many of the potential data buyers Otonomo has signed are the same ones the automakers talk about: insurance companies, mechanics, gas stations, city planners, fast - food joints.

Hillis says her clients (typically governments, architects and city planners) simply aren't going to Facebook or Twitter to seek the underground waste containers she sells.

Aide Tomer, Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution says city planners can't keep building roads to solve congestion issues.

Manufacturers will collaborate with traffic experts and city planners so that real - time vehicle data can improve the entire transportation network by managing energy consumption and identify and solving issues as they are developing.

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

City planners are even pondering a temporary Chicago - style shoreline ferris wheel as a tourist attraction — all in an effort to continue to grow this community's «fun factor» says Montemayor.

City planners who are looking to staunch the incoming flow of vehicular traffic also have reason to encourage the use of bicycles.

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

I don't know what they're going to be and I think the city planners are much more equipped to deal with that than I am.

As designers, city planners, and architects look to make urban spaces more functional, attractive, and inclusive, what new trends are emerging and what lessons can be learned?

As part of his inquiry, Paulsen helped create a public event, bringing together a container company manager, architects, art students, city planners and regulatory officials to brainstorm solutions in a design charette that drew wider media coverage.

City planners hope the arch, a symbol of the country's pioneer spirit, will help reunite its residents.

We're the marketers who sell water treatment plants, costing tens of millions, to city planners with Facebook amplified content, sending traffic external into conversion and other content marketing KPIs, including SEO and friendship.

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.

This trend has been dubbed New Urbanism and has attracted an eclectic mix of architects, builders, city planners and even sociologists to its front lines.

Based on his continuum, Piper concludes that a female city planner, who indirectly leads men by designing traffic patterns, exhibits influence that is non-personal «and therefore not necessarily an offense against God's order.»

After finishing the first installment of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson biography, The Path to Power, I decided to pick up a copy of Caro's first book, The Power Broker, a biography of notorious New York city planner Robert Moses.

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 Chicago.

In recent years — and especially since former city planner David Doig became parks general superintendent three years ago — the Park District has followed the plan by increasing the acquisition of parkland.

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.

A subterranean survey taken by former city planner and civil engineer Bob Pritchard some 35 years ago concluded that it would take upwards of $ 50 million to modernize the system.

«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.

She said she, the developer and other council members want to see the project happen, but its fate is sealed if Hammes doesn't work with city planners.

Among them are code enforcement officers, city planners and paralegals.

-- Two city planners, Katelyn Wright and Rebecca Klossner, will take Planner l positions at SOCPA.

Prominent supporters of the merger, including Ryan McMahon, chairman of the county Legislature, were unaware that city planners would receive significant pay increases.

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.

Today: City planners sign off...

«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.»

City planners are hoping to encourage population growth in underutilized areas that are near mass transit, the website reported.

The rezoning envisioned by the local community would only be feasible if the allowable residential floor area is increased, city planners have advised.

Bob Tuttle, a city planner, said, «There's a lot of work that (the developers are) doing right now, and (the Environmental Impact Statement) just isn't ready.»

Cortland City Planners have approved the request of a local student landlord to consolidate three rentals

He began his career as a city planner in 2006.

Syracuse city planner Andrew Maxwell stands in North Salina Street in this 2011 photo.

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.

City planners can rid their locales of some of this heat with several strategies.

City planner Lina Velasco said that will be accomplished through «compliance and enforcement.»

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.

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.

But the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS's) national hazard maps, updated periodically, pack a powerful punch: Insurance companies and city planners rely heavily on the maps, which influence billions of dollars in construction every year.

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.

This analysis may help city planners determine the best locations to focus tree - planting efforts, while helping them realize that the strategy of adding trees needs to be complemented by other reduction and energy - conservation efforts if their communities are to reach their carbon - reduction targets.

The analysis may help city planners determine the best locations to focus tree - planting efforts.

The researchers hope the results can help influence local governments and city planners in the formulation of effective codes and policies to mitigate the urban heat island effect.