Sentences with phrase «of urban design»

He has a strong commitment to values of environmental sustainability and is particularly interested in issues of urban design, in relation to both public health and sustainability outcomes.

This compact, 8 by 8 feet, cubic is a great example of an urban design that brings the joy of reading to public spaces.

The practice has designed a wide range of projects from the small scale of a private home to the large scale of urban design.

But how many of those trips are a function of urban design, the way our cities and suburbs are laid out.

Their firm is focused on urban architectural landscapes, targeting our efforts at projects within high growth urban areas, which results in an expertise in all aspects of urban design.

She researches individual and community approaches to better nutrition, and studies the impact of urban design on population health.

Why you should care: The goal of Placemeter is to collect data to help increase the effectiveness of urban design, give local businesses a better idea of their traffic, and help consumers get useful info like how crowded the bar down the street is before you get there.

«Everyone wants the cake, which is the headquarters, but if not, they'll take the icing,» said Dennis Frenchman, a professor of urban design and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

«Sheridan was a beautiful lakefront boulevard, a model of urban design that should be reclaimed, not transformed into a suburban highway,» said Susan Olin, a community activist who would be a neighbor to the 250 - car garage proposed by prominent real estate developer Jennifer Pritzker.

Or in Birmingham, where social housing was named the winner of the Urban Design Awards in 2015 for exemplary placemaking and architecture.

They are considered anomalous relics of a chaotic phase of urban design that has since been streamlined by the clarity of the Western city grid.

Read about the academic content of Urban Design with specialisation in Urban Architecture at Aalborg University

A perfect balance of urban design and nature, this Autograph Collection Hotel challenges guests with bold contradictions.

Diverse in subject and approach, the works provide critical considerations on subjects ranging from modern interpretations of Romanticism to contemporary statuary, from explorations of urban design to the trajectories of the African Diaspora.

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm program, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm opening reception, at the Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, Queens Under the Manhattan Bridge: Skateboarders Hit The Drawing Deck As part of Urban Design Week, Architecture for Humanity invites skateboarders, designers, and residents to help decide how the skatepark and adjacent public areas should look.

A City Built To Human Scale After nodding to some of the city's well - publicized problems — including frequent flooding and garbage and sewage issues, he added: «However, with every step I took through the streets and alleys of this pedestrian paradise I was struck by how much of its urban design serves as an example that ecocities aren't some kind of Utopia but have in fact been in existence for centuries.»

That is what architect, urban designer, teacher, writer, former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto Ken Greenberg of Greenberg Consultants told Metropolis in an interview recently.

Factoring in weather variation to capture the influence of urban design and built environment on globally recommended levels of moderate to vigorous physical activity in children

In the wake of the success of the Urban Design Project, the North Carolina Manufactured Housing Institute (NCMHI) began another venture to demonstrate that manufactured homes can be architecturally compatible with existing homes in urban settings and also be a solution to the affordable housing crisis facing many of the state's urban and inner suburban areas.

«In Scotland, there are the issues of urban design (lack of dedicated cycle paths) and unfavorable weather conditions.»

But this time the reward is not necessarily a contemplative reconsideration of the social impact of urban design and economics.

Teruya makes drawings of elements of urban design and architecture — bollards, wood planks, cement blocks — as well as actual structures, which he then cuts and arranges to create crisp, elegant collaged drawings.