Sentences with phrase «physical future of the city»

«First of all, our official planning departments seem to be brain - dead in the sense that we can not depend on them in any way, shape or form for providing intellectual leadership in addressing urgent problems involving the physical future of the city.»

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He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

Masochists willing to brave the depths of the cyberpunk city of Rengkok are in for a brutal challenge; the streets are lined with common gang members, Triad assassins and corporate hit - men, all armed with the best tech the future of 2091 has to offer; fortunately, players come equipped with a myriad of abilities to ease their pain, including the likes of a brief mirror - shield, physical augmentations, a stun - gun, and the knowledge to hack into enemies themselves to fight alongside the protagonist.

His artworks express at small scale his large - scale vision of a future in which cities take to the air, creating environments in a state of continuous physical and social transformation.

- A large - scale model of Brooklyn in 2110, as a city of the future producing everything it needs to sustain itself within its physical borders.

Gardens are crucial to the mental, physical and emotional health of our City's residents and play an ever increasingly important role in our City's environmentally sustainable and socially just future.

Cutting edge data centers of the future will require less of a physical human presence, and are likely to: â $ cents Rely on a VIL to optimize equipment management and provide for virtual remote control capable of instant changes, switches and adds â $ cents Achieve LEED certification for the physical building â $ cents Rely on more efficient water cooling that potentially takes advantage of an on - site tower to chill water for cooling the system (thus reducing energy consumption by using nature's natural cooling power to chill water) â $ cents Use fluid dynamics models to precisely design the interior of the building to maximize the efficiency of the HV / AC system for air - cooled computing systems â $ cents Tap into a mixed energy grid that relies on green energy sources such as solar, wind or hydroelectric (depending on geographic feasibility), along with a reliable city grid thus avoiding the need for the standard back - up Uninterruptible Power Supply (which will reduce equipment costs, minimize floor space used, and increase energy efficiency because systems that employ a UPS convert AC to DC and back, incurring substantial energy losses).

Their latest article highlights the importance of the subway: How it made NYC into NYC, how subways have built other cities around the world, and why it's crucial for the future of physical, economic, and social mobility.