Sentences with phrase «urban development»

Even in the absence of urban development where there is more rain runoff, heavy rain will lead to more flooding.
This paper provides an overview of the various types of urban agriculture and the roles these can play in sustainable urban development and their benefits and risks.
This panel will reflect on critical issues in urban development with regard to contemporary cultural production.
Potential projects include a new urban development, an energy - efficiency policy, an electric car fleet purchase, or solar panel subsidies, to name just a few of the endless possibilities.
As urban development ramps up, green roofs offer unexpected room for nature.
The increased scale will allow the company to tackle more mixed - use urban developments.
A cabinet department responsible for the implementation and administration of government housing and urban development programs.
The basic organizational principle of dense urban development is compact development.
It aims to drive data and modelling - based decision making by the municipality on low carbon, resource efficient and resilient urban development.
Other countries in the region have taken bigger steps, such as planning urban development based on climate change, limiting fossil fuels and creating eco-friendly transportation.
But the people who are pushing for congregations to shoulder more of the burden of urban development need to be honest about church realities and capacities.
High density urban development without parking for cars is the goal.
Are the effects of deforestation and urban development accounted into your research?
The report explores various options for sustainable urban development ranging from practical tools and comprehensive policies to innovative market mechanisms.
The small number of hotels and resorts means it is an exclusive place to stay with limited urban development and fewer visitors than its sister islands.
His more recent works, particularly those from the early 2000s, evoke a sense of nostalgia and loss amid accelerating urban development.
Whilst early urban development was along rail corridors, more recently it has been away from traditional public transport hubs, with much greater reliance on car use.
A senior thesis program where students conduct their own research projects in the areas of urban development, media, renewable energy, education, and economics.
It is expected this will make it a global benchmark for sustainable urban development.
These interventions were interactions with and comments on urban development, zoning, community and architecture itself.
The hotel will be part of a new mix - used urban development that will include a glossy new shopping mall, luxury private residences and sleek office spaces.
This focus on higher density urban development is expected to have a major impact on purchasing patterns, resulting in the creation of more affordable housing options.
It's an issue he has a history with, too, given his time as the Housing and Urban Development secretary in President Bill Clinton's administration.
Prof. Winter spoke towards the end of the first excavation season of the new excavation project on urban development in ancient Syria, which the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) is funding with a total of 600,000 euros starting this year.
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Weicher is the author of dozens of books and papers on housing policy and headed the Policy Development and Research Division of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Secretary Jack Kemp in the previous Bush administration.
The guide was formed through a collaborative effort by Mayor Byron W. Brown, Chairman of Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, Buffalo Niagara Partnership, CBRE Buffalo and Buffalo Place with funding provided by National Grid.
The agreement covers the operation of a new hotel in the Platinan block, part of the new urban development project Älvstaden in Gothenburg.
Michael Dweck's «The Last Race» visits a blue - collar American racetrack that has been owned by a husband - wife team for years, but whose very existence is being threatened by urban development and the illness of the owners.
«We expect Boro Tower to set new standards for quality while enhancing the workplace experience for class - A office users in the market,» Daniel Moore, executive vice president and head of urban development for Rockefeller Group, said in a prepared statement.
He worked for Cuomo at the federal Housing and Urban Development department during the late 1990s.
Gillibrand worked with Cuomo in the Department of Housing and Urban Development during President Bill Clinton's administration.
Before that, he helped Gov. Hugh Carey restore the ailing New York State Urban Development Corp. (now the Empire State Development Corp.) to fiscal solvency.
interprets policy, processes complaints, performs compliance reviews and offers technical assistance to local housing authorities and community development agencies regarding Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968;
The company's list of lost projects includes the $ 25 million Workforce Training Center that the Buffalo Urban Development Corp. plans to build as part of its Northland Corridor project.
Department of Housing and Urban Development also publishes a list of approved HUD lenders.
New FHA Mortgage for Home Buying — The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced new programs that help borrowers have a better experience with the house buying process.
That being said perhaps HUD Housing Urban Development and FHA Fair Housing Authority have seen the light as the mortgage loan limits for an FHA mortgage have remain unchanged from the 2013 mortgage loan limits.
«We are already struggling with the number of cars we have in the streets of our cities; congestion, air pollution, road safety issues, health impacts from people driving all the time,» said Luc Nadal, technical director for urban development at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).
And in downtown Los Angeles, New York - based Related Urban Development plans its $ 2 billion, 3.6 - million - square - foot Frank Gehry - designed Grand Avenue mixed - use property across from Gehry's acclaimed Disney Hall performing arts center as the connecting tissue to revitalize what has been a depressed area.
It's legal for real estate brokers and agents to earn money for services they provide on behalf of home warranty companies, as long as payments aren't accepted for referrals and other conditions are met, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said in an interpretive rule issued this summer.
Last month HUD issued a statement which said «U.S. Housing and Urban Development Deputy Secretary Roy A. Bernardi today announced the Bush Administration's FHASecure product has helped 200,000 homeowners refinance their mortgages and avoid foreclosure.»
For better examples of sustainable urban development from around the world — including cities in China, India, Angola, Guatemala — check out the archives of the Charter Awards from the Congress for the New Urbanism.
These efforts continue as New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offer communities the opportunity to compete for tens of millions of redevelopment dollars for the presentation of a thorough, innovative, and collaborative sustainability plan for their region.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development provides funding to counseling agencies across the country to help homeowners with the foreclosure alternative process.
FHA is a government agency under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development which insures first time home buyer loans.
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