Sentences with phrase «urban planning efforts»

Some have also argued that building more dog friendly spaces into urban planning efforts could have positive health effects for the community as a whole (92).

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Britain needs to embrace more light rail, discourage workplace parking, improve links between planning and transport and encourage vehicle sharing if efforts to tackle urban congestion are to succeed, witnesses to a Transport Select Committee inquiry evidence session remarked on Monday.

Since taking office, Hoffay has embraced a series of progressive urban planning initiatives including the Complete Streets program to make Kingston more bike - and pedestrian - friendly, an initiative to reduce the city's carbon footprint and efforts by the Kingston Land Trust to create community gardens and preserve open space.

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.

Ms Tanner said monitoring of estuarine CO2 was important for planning and remediation efforts: «As each estuary is different, the potential impacts of climate change and urban development will be different in every ecosystem.»

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

Sustainability of Dropout Prevention Efforts in a Large Urban School District: Teaming, Action Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, and Celebration!

Part of the Mastery network, which operates more than a dozen schools in Philadelphia, the Camden charter is part of a two - pronged effort that has Mastery planning another three elementary schools serving 2,000 more students under the state's Urban Hope Act.

Connecticut's system has been hugely successful in its attempts to promote racial integration within schools: In a recent Civil Rights Project report, Gary Orfield, a Distinguished Professor of Education, Law and Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA, referred to it as «the only successful effort to produce a new legal framework to deal with the reality of metropolitan segregation.»

In addition to recruiting and training teachers for charter and urban school districts, Teach for America — Connecticut Chapter has been working behind the scenes on Malloy's plan and in support of the state's efforts to take over the Bridgeport and Windham school systems.

Consider the Winnetka Plan in the 1920s, which individualized instruction; the Project Activity Method in the 1930s, which had small groups of students work together; the growth of gifted education; the mandate for special education since the 1970s; the spread of English language learning efforts in recent decades; and the contemporary «everyone goes to college» movement in urban schools.

The Institute looked at Fort Baker and Crissy Field in the Bay Area and Governors Island in New York to gain valuable insight on urban park planning and implementation that can be leveraged by other urban parks in their efforts to think proactively and critically about the park planning or redevelopment process.

As part of Pratt Institute, we use urban planning, architecture, and public policy to support community - based organizations in their efforts to improve quality of life, create economic opportunity, and advance sustainable development.

Only open to members and donors 12 PM: Architecture tour led by historic preservation architect, Heidi Granke, highlighting the new restoration efforts 2 PM: Talk by curatorial advisor Renato Anelli, Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning - University of São Paulo 4 PM: Talk by curator Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University Professor of Art History and Archaeology 5 - 8 PM: Members» Opening Reception

The Cooperative Group's Plan Bee campaign has already raised the profile of urban beekeeping in London, as well as setting out to tackle dangerous pesticide use and other challenges — but the Capital Bee initiative will be a welcome addition to the numerous efforts to help save our honeybees.

Federal transport minister Andreas Scheuer introduced the plan in an effort to improve air quality in cities, which are becoming increasingly active in owning and combatting urban emissions.

Fraijo's efforts include advocating for planning and land use policies throughout California for the benefit of minority and low - income communities through his founding of the Leadership for Urban Renewal Network, Inc., a nonprofit based in Los Angeles that is nationally recognized for its economic development work, and his service with the Friends of the Hollywood Freeway Central Park.

HUD plans to focus on compliance with the regulations as they apply to property rentals, rather than sales, and to concentrate its efforts on rental properties in large urban areas that are identified with problems connected to elevated lead levels in the blood.