Sentences with phrase «urban planners who»

There are other urban planners who are observing ways of developing more safety for pedestrians by walking around the city and taking a public transportation to gain better understanding on the issue.

As early as 1986, Mayor Oscar Goodman created a redevelopment agency to focus on downtown, but it initially chased after office buildings and other projects that would not have benefited an urban, walkable core, Steve van Gorp, an urban planner who was a senior planner with the city of Las Vegas, told me.

His shtick is «I get shit done,»» said Philip Plotch, an urban planner who served as the director of the World Trade Center redevelopment and special projects for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

At Galerie Michael Janssen of Berlin, life - sized glass heads are filled with found objects and Theaster Gates, a Chicago performance artist and urban planner who takes a proactive approach to improving poor neighborhoods, is displaying two chalk board works that show his creative thought process at Kavi Gupta gallery.

Or Orlando Raez, an urban planner who is hoping to broaden his impact for his community by running for Mayor of his adopted hometown of Hollywood, Florida.

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His data and methods were ultimately very useful to urban planners, who discovered many facts, such as people don't really like wide open spaces — they prefer intimate surroundings because they feel more secure.

Activist and urban planner Paul Graziano, who is running to replace City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone), joined state Sen. -LSB-...]

It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

He is a cellist and a world traveler who recently has found a career as an Urban Planner in a nearby township.

He focuses on four main characters: idealistic urban planner Steve (Campbell Scott); independent - minded environmentalist Linda (Kyra Sedgwick), whom Steve falls for; and would - be rockstar Cliff (Matt Dillon) and peppy design student Janet (Bridget Fonda), who live in Steve's apartment complex.

Pathways program planners «look at such traditional criteria as grade point averages and test scores, but they also use interviews and writing samples to select people who are committed to teaching in urban schools.»

THE THING THAT DREW YOU TO THEM: Walkable City came about from a conversation with my roommate who is an urban planner.

Best of all, the venue spoke to who we were, Cathe being a city planner with a lifelong love of Ottawa's urban spaces, and I — well, did I mention the reception was in a brew house?

Andy Yan, an urban planner and professor at UBC, believes that updating property - transfer fees, homeowner grants and property taxes would go a long way to reduce the number of investors and non-residents who speculate and flip urban Vancouver property.

One urban planner, Andy Yan, who has now become the go - to person on housing affordability and empty condos, analyzed data on Vancouver's condo towers.

A jewelry collection for architects, cartographers, urban planners, urban explorers, nomads, travelers, jet setters, and everyone who enjoys it.

«I am particularly inspired with the work of past visionaries, be they conceptual artists, utopian urban planners, engineers effecting behavior or architects who sought to change society through their designs.

Theaster Gates is an artist, urban planner, and professor and director at the University of Chicago's Arts and Public Life who believes in a culturally driven approach to urban redevelopment.

New York based artist Lena Henke discusses her fascination with urban planning and design, and in particular the notorious city planner Robert Moses, who took a «meat axe» to the New York as though it were a sculpture of his own.

Trained as an urban planner, he's one of a growing group of artists who are turning art into urban regeneration, and urban regeneration into art.

Creating walkable communities is a key goal of urban planners today who want to get more cars and buses off the road and bring people closer to nature.

It's a phenomenon familiar to urban planners, who long ago discovered that building more roads doesn't ease traffic jams — it merely encourages more people to get in their cars and drive.

That seems to be the feeling among many environmentalists and urban planners, who greeted with skepticism the announcement Wednesday of the new Turkish government cabinet following elections in mid-June.

In the recent decision of Cabott v. Urban Systems Ltd., 2015 YKSC 25; 2016 YKCA 4, the Supreme Court of Yukon awarded a 53 - year - old employee, who had been employed as a professional planner and supervisor for approximately 14 months at the time of her without cause termination, damages reflective of six months of reasonable notice.

Lindsey, who came to Tallahassee for graduate school and is an urban planner by trade, said the city has been quick to make progress though it had initially been slow to encourage entrepreneurs.

This is the premier event for developers, brokers, realtors, urban planners, and economic developers who would benefit from learning more about downtown development trends.