Sentences with phrase «on urban planner»

Back in March I was commissioned by Harper's Magazine to shoot for a story on urban planner Eymund Diegel and his fascinating project mapping the ghost streams running underneath Gowanus.

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Urban planners find themselves doing a ton of research: analyzing data on factors affecting land use, speaking with authorities and stakeholders, and evaluating proposals.

As early as 1986, Mayor Oscar Goodman created a redevelopment agency to focus on downtown, but it initially chased after office buildings and other projects that would not have benefited an urban, walkable core, Steve van Gorp, an urban planner who was a senior planner with the city of Las Vegas, told me.

He is a planner, geographer and urbanist, and his research focuses on the contemporary restructuring and retrofitting of urban regions, with a particular emphasis on the changing dynamics of race, class and segregation across space and place.

Also at 6 p.m., Assemblywoman Deborah Glick holds a panel on climate change, sustainability and development, featuring Judith Enck, former EPA official; Andrew Farnsworth of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; and Mike Aziz, Urban Design Planner at Perkins + Will, Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, University Center, 63 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

Berky, an urban planner by profession and a former planner for the county, served on that charter commission.

On Tuesday, four of the Democratic candidates in the race — Shafran, Voskerichian, urban planner and advocate Paul Graziano and former assemblyman John Duane — attended a news conference to denounce the independent ad campaign by Jobs For New York.

Urban planners zero in on the areas of the Gulf Coast most vulnerable to the threat of extreme weather.

Using the same statistical tools that urban planners and insurance companies use to predict disasters such as earthquakes and 100 - year floods based on prior patterns, Hines forecast a 100 - year blackout that would knock out 186,000 megawatts of power.

The study's senior author, Charles C. Branas, PhD, professor of Epidemiology and director of the Urban Health Lab at Penn, observes, «This research on greening urban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residUrban Health Lab at Penn, observes, «This research on greening urban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residurban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residurban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residents.

After years of watching engineers model traffic flow with advanced physics to alleviate jams, a team of urban planners called Shared Space have adopted a simple solution based on a zoological concept known as the risk compensation effect.

Town planners may not have understood the high importance residents put on easy access to generous amounts of green space in urban areas.

He focuses on four main characters: idealistic urban planner Steve (Campbell Scott); independent - minded environmentalist Linda (Kyra Sedgwick), whom Steve falls for; and would - be rockstar Cliff (Matt Dillon) and peppy design student Janet (Bridget Fonda), who live in Steve's apartment complex.

By taking on such real - life roles as site planner, financial analyst, marketing director, and neighborhood - to - city liaison, team members learn firsthand the nitty - gritty intricacies of urban renewal.

It's the reason why Andy Yan, an urban planner and professor at UBC, has consistently lobbied for governments and developers to focus on making data on housing and ownership trends more accessible.

One urban planner, Andy Yan, who has now become the go - to person on housing affordability and empty condos, analyzed data on Vancouver's condo towers.

Christina DiOrio, wedding planner at Maine's luxurious Inn by the Sea located on sandy Crescent Beach in Cape Elizabeth, just 7 miles south of Portland's urban chic small port city is ready to help in any way.

Not only a visionary architect, urban planner and theorist of modernity, but also a painter and sculptor, Le Corbusier made a profound impression on the 20th century in dramatically changing architectural design and the way people lived in it.

Drawing on her background as an urban planner, green developer and ecologist, her work plays on what she calls «cultural neurosis»: the human tendency to over-consume, over-build and over-groom.

Theaster Gates first encountered creativity in the music of Black churches on his journey to becoming an urban planner, potter, and artist.

Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse, the borough's major thoroughfare on which the Bronx Museum is located.

The exhibition catalog brings together works, objects, and texts on the theme of the universe with contributions from physicists, painters, writers, art historians, filmmakers, and urban planners: Paul Virilio, Jean - Louis Schefer, Moebius, Anne Diatkine... Each calls upon childhood imagination and reality, thereby combining two essential dimensions — man and play — through which we invent the world and make it our own.

Theaster Gates (b. 1973, Chicago, IL, USA) «first encountered creativity in the music of Black churches on his journey to becoming an urban planner, potter, and artist.»

He first encountered creativity in the music of Black churches on his journey to becoming an urban planner, potter, and artist.

But the highlight is a reprint of filmmaker Patrick Keiller's essay «Popular Science,» a meditation on urbanism where urban disempowerment is not — for once — blamed on modern planners but rather on the unstoppable forces of contemporary capitalism.

Chicago artist and urban planner Theaster Gates reflects on his remarkable new exhibition about the politics of remembering at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Environmentalists and Urban Planners on the run as smart growth and sustainability become illegal in the State.

If more architects, urban planners, and designers would start to see the importance of not just green home construction but creating self - sustaining communities as well it would really have a green impact on our future development.

«It really has a significant impact on grid reliability and also on people's ability to pay their electric bills,» said urban planner Nick Rajkovich at the University of Buffalo.

The ideas of yesteryear are falling by the wayside as a new generation of green urban planners incorporate more park space, harmonize development with the environment, and even work on more efficient ways to incorporate mass transit.

Most city planners agree on the broad benefits of urban vegetation, with some metropolitan councils developing urban greening strategies.

I came across this essay today by Joel Kotkin on Houston and Hurricane Harvey, that isn't directly related to sea level rise, but is an excellent argument for urban planners to build resilience to address future climate change and weather disasters.

This technical document complements the Planning for Climate Change: A strategic values - based approach for urban planners, a resource and planning guide developed for city planners and other professionals to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the local level.

In many South - East Asian cities, the continuity of the existing potential for growing aquatic vegetables and fish using urban wastewater will depend on the city planners» ability to coordinate and develop strategies for effective separation of toxic industrial waste from domestic sewage.

Because civil engineers view green roofs differently than landscape architects, urban planners or environmentalists, they are usually focused on permit requirements.

It brought together 38 participants representing planning universities and planning professionals and aimed to: reach a common understanding on how better urban planning and design can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, especially in the Developing Countries context; agree on how best to equip urban planners and related professionals, especially in developing countries to deal with climate change and to conceptualize the core elements of a toolbox; and reach a common understanding on how urban planning and design schools can better address climate change as an integral part of their curricula.

The attractiveness of cities is one of the key issues on the agenda of urban policy planners in Japan and beyond:

Kennedy's architecture firm plans on collaborating with urban planners and real estate developers to design site - specific Soft House pre-fab projects.

But as people have moved from the countryside to the cities, and as China's economic planners focus more on bolstering domestic consumption and moving away from export - led growth, income inequality has increased — along with the carbon footprint of those in urban areas.

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There are other urban planners who are observing ways of developing more safety for pedestrians by walking around the city and taking a public transportation to gain better understanding on the issue.

Urban Planners average a score of 3.2 out of 5 on our salary satisfaction scale.

For more information, see the job profiles on environmental scientists and specialists, hazardous materials removal workers, lawyers, and urban and regional planners.

Last week, leaders, architects, and urban planners from around the world gathered in Chicago to discuss the rise of such cities and what impact they're having on their regions, each other, and the globe.

World leaders, urban planners, and other industry thinkers weigh in on what it takes for a city to attract top - tier talent and take on global problems.

Toronto's red hot real estate market is fuelling a push to tear down homes on valuable land and replace them with newer, bigger ones, sometimes to the dismay of urban planners.

Planners and developers focus on infill and more vertical projects, which reinforce the urban cores.

She draws on her experience working with architects, designers, and urban planners to provide a unique perspective of residential real estate while helping her clients buy and sell homes.