Sentences with phrase «urban design approach»

Klaus Jacob, an earth scientist at Columbia University whose home just north of the city up the Hudson River was flooded by the surge from Hurricane Sandy, has been calling the necessary urban design approach «managed retreat» (Reed Noss of the University of Central Florida has been making the same argument in the context of wildlife conservation).

Not exact matches

Roorda hopes that municipal parking authorities will be able to use their design approach to enhance urban spaces.

These challenges will require new policies and approaches to urban planning, and building designs driven by appropriately derived guidelines to achieve the required sustainable pathway trajectory.

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

MIT education researcher Meredith Thompson shares three vignettes of three different approaches to virtual reality in K — 12: a social studies class in a suburban school district, a district - wide perspective from an urban school district and a class designed entirely around understanding and implementing VR for other classrooms.

Her enthusiastic approach extends to her research — she has traveled all over the world to meet scientists, environmentalists, urban designers, inventors, and those on the cutting edge of technological development, accompanying an aqua farmer to check on his lateral kelp beds in the ocean, and others into their labs, design studios and think tanks.

Created by the visionary Gekko Group with an avant - garde approach to the hotel's interiors led by Amsterdam design company, concrete, Roomers Munich boasts a refreshing individuality through its furnishings and flair that reflect an urban zeitgeist.

The monograph is also a visual record of contemporary New York's urban fabric, indelibly transformed by the designer's innovative approach to environmental graphics and identity design: from MoMA to Charter Schools; from the High Line to Shake Shack.

Through multidisciplinary arts, community engagement exercises, and urban design practices she applies an iterative, human centered approach to ecological problem solving.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present «Design Jazz: Improvisations on the Urban Street,» a two - part exhibition inspired by Deb Johnson, Pratt's Academic Director of Sustainability, that will document both theoretical and innovative approaches to the desDesign Jazz: Improvisations on the Urban Street,» a two - part exhibition inspired by Deb Johnson, Pratt's Academic Director of Sustainability, that will document both theoretical and innovative approaches to the designdesign...

The creative approach to advertising has left Bruel with a striking portfolio of campaigns, photo - shoots, set designs and even animation, and her work has impressed clients far and wide, including Wired, Wieden & Kennedy, Urban Outfitters and Vogue.

Branzi's theoretical approach, as well as his designs, expose the links between seemingly opposing concepts of nature vs. technology, landscape vs. architecture, wilderness vs. civilization, derived from a longtime fascination with how humans interact with each other and with their physical surroundings, especially in urban centers.

Designed to capture the light and tranquility of the American scenery, this approach dovetailed nicely with the changing aesthetic of vacationing patrons, anxious to reduce the pressures of urban society, and was enthusiastically taken up by artists like John F. Kensett (1816 — 72), Martin Johnson Heade (1819 — 1904), Worthington Whittredge (1820 — 1910), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 — 80), Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 — 1900), and Jervis McEntee (1828 — 91).

Matthew Darbyshire's work explores notions of social and cultural critique through playful approaches to urban architecture and design.

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.

A better approach would be to foster collaborative projects aimed at resilient urban design, improved water treatment and efficiency (to cut demand for groundwater pumping) and landscape management in fast - growing delta cities and nearby regions.

RUAF collaborates with local authorities, research organisations, urban producers and other stakeholders in the assessment of the urban food system and the design of adequate urban agriculture and food policies and - programmes, applying a multi-stakeholder approach.

It also predicts the consequences of a more innovative approach to wood product design, supply and marketing, as well as to forest management; and outlines win - win opportunities in developing the use of harvest residues, recovered wood and landscape care wood from urban and highway trees.

A growing number of cities are designing policies and programmes on urban agriculture, applying multi-stakeholder planning approaches to identify effective ways to integrate urban agriculture into urban sector policies and urban land use planning and to facilitate the development of safe and sustainable and multi-functional urban agriculture.

This Report concerns the approach proposed to urban design, including public realm and landscape, and the architecture along with its energy performance.

Seen over at Design Milk, the HØNS urban chicken coop by Danish traveller - designer Anker Bak is approached as a do - it - yourself puzzle that can be constructed with a handful of bolts, O - rings and string in under two hours.

As both an urban designer and an architect, Jack L. Robbins brings a design - oriented approach and international perspective to solving complex urban design problems.

CONCEPT: Using a retro approach to attract a young, urban demographic, RGLA and Barneys CO-OP's creative staff designed the duplex store with faux - vintage mini-refrigerators, recycled wood and colored silhouettes.

In the private residential market, urban developers in Kenya are currently adopting a «high density» approach to scheme design — such as apartments — and a bigger plot ratio in order to make optimal use of available land.

Nino was the creator of My Ideal City, the first bottom up pilot - approach to a continuous urban design platform (www.myidealcity.com).