Sentences with phrase «of urban planning who»

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The city's urban plan was the brainchild of French immigrant and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who envisioned an egalitarian design for the District — a vision that was a physical manifestation of the American dream.

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Rachel Weber is an associate professor at the University of Illinois - Chicago Department of Urban Planning and Policy who holds a doctorate in regional pPlanning and Policy who holds a doctorate in regional planningplanning.

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«Some of the city's worst air quality, if not the worst, is in midtown Manhattan,» said Nilda Mesa, the former director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability who now heads the Columbia University Earth Institute's Urban Sustainability and Equity Planning program, in a recent interview with amNewYork.

On the Democratic side, a number of candidates have already entered the race to challenge the Republican councilman, including Paul Graziano, an activist and urban planning consultant; Austin Shafran, a former member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration; Paul Vallone, an attorney, who ran for the seat back in 2009; and former state Assemblyman John Duane.

Senator Klein with Paloma Hernandez, President and Chief Executive Officer of Urban Health Plan, and Bronx women who took part in the Bronx Women's Wellness Week, a set of programs sponsored, in part, by Senator Klein.

ALBANY — «The Power Broker» may weigh down countless bookshelves in the state Capitol, but for New Yorkers who don't happen to be students of politics or urban planning, Robert Moses isn't exactly a household name anymore.

Shiyanbola further implored Governor Abiola Ajimobi to appoint «a special adviser on Surveying and Mapping who would oversee the implementation of laws on Surveying and Physical Planning at the rural and urban levels.

City officials contend that the 75 other SURA employees — who work in the departments of law, neighborhood and business development, or planning and sustainability — are dedicated to urban renewal work.

The Permanent Secretary in the Ogun State Ministry of Urban and Physical Planning, Mrs. Yetunde Dina, who visited the scene of the incident, said the state government would investigate what caused the collapse.

Other Democrats who have thrown their names into the race include Paul Graziano, an activist and urban planning consultant; Austin Shafran, a former member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration; Paul Vallone, an attorney who ran for the seat in 2009; and former state Assemblyman John Duane.

The winning regions will be picked by a panel of five people: Secretary of State Cesar Perales; RoAnn Destito, commissioner of the state's Office of General Services; Bruce Katz, who directs Brookings» metropolitan policy program; Urban League president Marc Morial and Susan Christopherson, the chair of Cornell's department of City & Regional Planning.

This kind of local control is not unique to New York City government, says Paul Graziano, an urban planning consultant and Queens preservationist, who said the practice occurs «pretty much everywhere around the country» in state legislatures and in the federal government.

But Thomas Angotti, a professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, who came to speak to the group, said the community has reason to be wary of the administration's promises.

«Lower income people often do not have a choice as to whether they will live in an area of climate hazard,» said Estrella - Luna, who teaches urban planning at Northeastern University.

At the same time, a few cities — notably Boston, San Francisco, San Diego and Chicago — have managed to build in clear, measurable indicators for achieving social - equity goals, says Prof. Manaugh, who co-authored the study with professors Madhav Badami and Ahmed El - Geneidy of McGill's School of Urban Planning.

Or so goes the definition from William Rees, an urban planning researcher at the University of British Columbia, and Mathis Wackernagel, head of the Global Footprint Network, who teamed up to develop the metric.

Johnson, who specializes in the study of complexity, is one of a new breed of physicists turning their analytical acumen away from subatomic particles and toward a bewildering array of more immediate human problems, from traffic management to urban planning.

What should have then been a straight forward escape plan is hindered by the incompetence of Skurge (Karl Urban), the new gatekeeper of the Bifröst Bridge, who has taken over from Heimdall (Idris Elba) who has gone rogue.

In our opinion, when Mr. Bush refers in the text of his plan to the «rest of us,» he is not talking about the individuals from non-European racial and ethnic groups who make up most of the urban - school population that will one day become a sizable segment of America's workforce.

«For urban, low - income students, who don't plan to attend college, scoring «advanced» instead of «proficient» improves their probability of going to college by 10 percentage points,» he says.

Our reflective planning led to the creation of the Urban Prep Alumni Program, a college access and persistence program aimed at increasing the number of our alumni who enroll in and complete college.

A staff member's friend, who was a graduate student of urban planning, conceived the transit - dilemma project.

The Mississippi Department of Education is planning to launch a program that will create a «sustainable pipeline of educators who are members of the community in which they teach, particularly in urban and isolated rural districts.»

Jill L. Grant, a professor in urban planning at Dalhousie University, has interviewed plenty of suburbanites who would be happy to take transit to work if they could get a smooth ride with minimal transfers.

The agreement has been signed with strategic developers Urban & Civic, who secured planning permission to build a new # 45 million 357 - bed hotel next to the terminal of London Stansted Airport.

The vaccine takes two weeks to take full effect, but the CDC only recommends it for «travelers who plan to spend at least 1 month in endemic areas during -LSB-...] transmission season» or «Short - term -LSB-...] travelers to endemic areas during the transmission season, if they plan to travel outside an urban area and their activities will increase the risk of exposure.»

The Panorama was the brainchild of «master builder» Robert Moses, who saw it as a tool for urban design and planning after it left the fair.

The Panorama of the City of New York, a baseball - diamond - size model of the five boroughs, constructed for the 1964 - 65 World's Fair (and updated many times since), is an astonishing sight, a must - visit for anyone who cares about architecture, urban planning, cartography, museology, or a host of other fields.

AWARD / HONOR Center for Architecture and Design in Philadelphia announces Theaster Gates is recipient of 2017 Edmund N. Bacon Award The honor recognizing «one outstanding national or international figure who, like Bacon, has advocated for excellence in urban development, planning, thought, and design» is presented March 8.

My walking tours call attention to the shortcomings of poor urban planning while telling the stories of the everyday residents who have fought to improve their neighborhoods.

New York based artist Lena Henke discusses her fascination with urban planning and design, and in particular the notorious city planner Robert Moses, who took a «meat axe» to the New York as though it were a sculpture of his own.

The OMA urban studies for Palermo will be presented in the spring of 2017 and the curators, called creative mediators, who are developing artistic content based on a deep knowledge of the site, will present their plans for Manifesta 12 in mid-summer 2017.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government today (World Population Day) have been hosting a London Summit on Family Planning, aimed at expanding access to contraception and related health services for women, particularly in poor urban communities, who want more control over the size of their families.

I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.

The Monthly Programs Committee (MPC) is a group of dedicated volunteers who assist Urban Green Council in the planning and implementation of our monthly educational programs, including building salons, case studies, technical roundtables and tours.

Coupled with an architectural background, we have a generation of people who will incorporate this kind of design in urban planning,» he says.

We are seeking people who are planning tiny house builds of all kinds (cabins, cottages, floating homes, container conversion homes, urban micro apartments, etc.) and will be downsizing and transitioning into the tiny house lifestyle for the first time.

A study released by the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) in late 2010 found that «Australia will be forced to rely on huge quantities of imported oil unless it radically overhauls its transport and urban policies» according to The Age newspaper who reported on the findings.

Hire people from other professions such as construction, mortgage banking, and urban planning who are familiar with commercial markets and have a network of commercial contacts.

The 80 percent of respondents who indicated they plan to eventually buy a house or apartment contradicts a popular notion that millennial preference for living in dense, walkable urban areas makes home ownership less attractive to this generation.

Krawitz, who earned a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Illinois in 1987 and later a master's degree in regional and urban planning from the London School of Economics, embraces his role as mentor.