Sentences with phrase «on urban policies»

It is a new type of smart - device that - when networked - has the power to create a much greater environmental impact on urban policies, infrastructure planning and transportation habits around the world.

So says a new report on urban policies for dealing with the risks of climate change, published this month in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

And of course, as you see below, BP Carrion is heading to DC to direct a new White House Office on Urban Policy.

Not exact matches

A tax cut on pass - through entities would likely benefit the most successful enterprises, said Gleckman of Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center.

The main outcome of Habitat III was that UN nation states agreed on the New Urban Agenda (NUA): a non-binding document, which will guide policies over the next 20 years with the goal of making cities safer, resilient and sustainable and their amenities more inclusive.

On Nov. 20, the city planning committee agreed to change the official plan so that additional drive - thrus could not be located in «special policy areas,» like the historic downtown, unless the company submits an urban design study that satisfies the overall plan.

[2] Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan, «The Federal Reserve's semiannual monetary policy,» report before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate July 22, 1997.

Urban voters will not back a Wildrose / PC coalition (assuming it gets off the ground) because they're too progressive to regress on social policy.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

During his 41 years at Calvary Baptist, Barbour served on a variety of city policy - developing committees, including the Chester Water Board and the Citizens Council on Urban Renewal.

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

«[Agriculture] needs to become part of our culture again, we need to educate urban Australians on the challenges we have and we need to have government develop the right policy, preferably non-partisan and with length of tenure, to meet the roles required.»

The school's Architecture & Environmental Design major involves interesting courses, but there isn't a ton on policy, planning, urban history, etc..

Part of Santa Monica College's Second Annual Public Policy Institute Spring Symposium, on the topic: «Urban Youth: Fostering Success through GRIT.»

Field Trip: Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy at Large Urban InstitutionsBy: Sunny YoungEarlier this year I started research on Phase II of The Lunch Box.

Two days ago, the Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece by Robert Gottlieb, director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, with an update on school food in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Researchers, farmers, chefs, policy makers, government officials, and students will come together panels on topics including; food waste, urban agriculture, family farmers, farm workers, and more.

He was a co-founder of the group D.C. Urban Gardeners, sits on the advisory board of the D.C. Farm to School Network and contributes to food policy blogs such as Grist and La Vida Locavore, as well as the gardening blog Garden Rant.

On November 7th in Cork City, Young Knocknaheeny will bring together leading experts, policy makers, practitioners, and participants to share and connect the science, policy, and interdisciplinary practice across the domains of child development, health, equality, urban development, and change practices for whole community prevention and early intervention.

I am sure that when these leaders wake up each morning, they are not thinking about foreign policy, but about domestic social unrest, the lack of provision of a proper welfare system, about how to deal with the issue of internal migrants (some 200 million people on the move from villages to urban areas demanding the same rights as urban locals), and so on.

The European Union's regional policy and multi-level arrangement of governance have provided an important instrumentarium, as well as likely platform, for such para-diplomatic activities on the basis of growing urban — especially metropolitan — consciousness as places «that matter» (more than the rest).

The meetings will be held on Oct. 25 in Cortland and Nov. 14 in Newburgh as state lawmakers and other policy makers grapple with how to combat addiction, which has afflicted rural, suburban and urban parts of the state.

Communities and Local Government sets policy on housing, local government, urban regeneration, planning, fire and rescue in England.

His research has included ethnographic and policy - focused research on contemporary urban multiculture, and historical research on Jewish migrants in East London.

Peter Kilfoyle thinks my co-authoring an evidence - rich policy paper on urban regeneration's failure to generate economic convergence in places such as Liverpool and Hull means that I live «in a parallel universe» (TP Debate, April).

Molly Dillon, who was a policy adviser for urban affairs, justice and opportunity on Obama's Domestic Policy Council, is now a Cuomo senior policy adpolicy adviser for urban affairs, justice and opportunity on Obama's Domestic Policy Council, is now a Cuomo senior policy adPolicy Council, is now a Cuomo senior policy adpolicy adviser.

If we proceed on those terms... David can listen rather more to Conservative MPs, who represent the real people of this country, and give rather less regard to the Liberal Democrat intellectual urban elite, with their student politics idea of reforming the constitution and taking forward green policies.

The 2020 sees itself as a policy - focused group that can help complement groups like the 301, who concentrate more on election - winning strategies and tactics to win seats in urban areas, the North, etc..

«Pure Marxist theology» by «a load of Communist clerics» — Thatcher's government didn't think much of a landmark Church of England report on urban decay which slammed its housing, benefits, tax and policing policies.

I want to offer some information on our early organizing work to help engage existing soil - based as well as other community - driven urban ag growers, activists, and leaders as local elected officials begin to consider the development of urban ag policy...

Experts on urban design and public policy offered their insights on replacing the elevated portion of Interstate - 81 in Syracuse at a recent forum at Syracuse University.

Whilst showering praise on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for scrapping the «nuisance levy» imposed by the previous government on head porters (kayayei) and for its determination to stem the tide of rural - urban migration through the one - district - one - factory and one - village - one - dam policies, the organisation also called for a probe into the running of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).

Arianna Giovannini is Senior Lecturer in Local Politics in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, where she is a member of the Local Governance Research Unit (LRGU) and the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA).

Last week, North Florida Republican Ted Yoho co-signed a letter — along with 22 of his Republican colleagues — calling on Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to review the agency's «Housing First» policy.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Under Theresa May's leadership, the Conservative party has turned its back on urban and suburban areas by pursuing policies and public spending decisions that discriminate against our cities and towns.

If David Cameron and George Osborne want to succeed in making the Conservative Party credible on the economy — and appealing to urban voters outside the South of England — they must produce a credible policy on cities.

This project and the two others in the City approved Wednesday fall under the ECIDA's «Adaptive Reuse» policy, which focuses on reinvestment in urban areas and existing buildings.

At 8 a.m. Tuesday, the Center for an Urban Future will hold a «policy symposium on the future of middle income jobs in New York City.»

Brett received his Masters of Public Administration degree from Baruch College, where he studied policies that can have an impact on urban poverty.

Last year, Wagner students took on a handful of urban policy issues.

On Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Manhattan, Ester Fuchs, professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science and director of the Urban and Social Policy Program at Columbia University, will host «NYC Politics and Policy in the Age of de Blasio,» reviewing de Blasio's adherence to his campaign promises to end social and economic inequality.

The Governor's Airport Advisory Panel is charged with producing recommendations on redesigns and modernization for our region's airports, and is comprised of the following appointees by the Governor: Amanda Burden, former commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning; Tony Collins, co-chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Jose Gomez - Ibanez, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard's Graduate School of Design; Queens Borough President Melinda Katz; DanTishman, CEO of Tishman Construction Corporation; Jacqueline Snyder, former head of the New York City Public Design Commission; John Zuccotti, co-chair of Brookfield Office Properties.

«They've played an invaluable role of maintaining the ongoing discourse on congestion pricing,» said Scott Rechler, chairman of the Regional Planning Association, an influential urban policy group, and another member of the state task force.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley released an urban policy proposal Wednesday that contained wording identical to passages previously posted on Internet websites of public policy think tanks.

Hughes» career has ricocheted between academia and the policy world, always with a focus on urban poverty.

What needs to happen, the author recommends, is that there be more laws that mandate vaccinations, manure management and general animal welfare in urban and suburban settings similar to policies and regulations imposed on commercial chicken ranches.

Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand, released in October by the Urban Institute (UI), a policy - research organization in Washington, D.C., retains the U.S. National Academy of Sciences» report's meteorological metaphor but rejects its analysis and conclusions.

Some of these policy strategies have been enumerated recently, all of which focus on reducing caloric intake or increasing physical activity, and include taxes on calorically dense, nutritionally sparse foods (eg, sugar - sweetened beverages); subsidies for healthier foods, especially in economically disadvantaged groups; agricultural policy changes; and urban planning aimed at encouraging walking and other modes of physical activity.

In particular, I was a Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellow, serving as a member of the subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and as a special director in the Office of Cultural Resources of the National Park Service.