Sentences with phrase «urban planners called»

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.

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Jennifer Schwartz Berky is running for a second term in the Ulster County Legislature, a role that calls upon her 30 - year career as a professional urban planner in environmental protection and economic development.

Solo - dwellers, as they are called, are top of mind for urban planners, explains Brian Jackson, Vancouver's general manager of planning and development.

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.

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.

There is a term that geographers and urban planners are using now called infrastructure ecology, to describe the interdependency of our infastructures, relating to resilience, vulnerabilities.

But that's the point of calling them Wicked Problems, the concept proposed in 1969 by urban planners Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber.

They are «calling all future - forward architects, urban designers, renegade planners and imaginative engineers: Show us how you would re-invent the suburbs!