Sentences with phrase «urban planning policy»

And if you think relatively few people pay attention to elections, try getting them to stay awake during a discussion of urban planning policy.

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

As discussed earlier, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that communities of color, poor communities, and certain other vulnerable populations (like new immigrant communities) are at a higher risk to the adverse effects of extreme weather events.263, 264,239 These vulnerable populations could benefit from urban planning policies that ensure that new buildings, including homes, are constructed to resist extreme weather events.303

Such institutional factors as urban planning policies that favor alternatives to auto transport, by providing high quality transit systems and raising environmental awareness may be key drivers of these differences.

In the past decade, the SPNI has opened several urban branches in Israel's major cities, charged with fighting for clean air and water, more parks for children and sustainable urban planning policies.

While the impact of climate change on health was not explicitly raised in the session summaries, Mark Butler talked about the «often enormous synergies» between good health policy and climate change / urban planning policies when he co-chaired the session on health inequalities and whole of government challenges.

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They also plan and direct policies and programs to promote industrial and commercial business development in urban and rural areas.

On Nov. 20, the city planning committee agreed to change the official plan so that additional drive - thrus could not be located in «special policy areas,» like the historic downtown, unless the company submits an urban design study that satisfies the overall plan.

The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for airport policy reform to align Canada with global best practices, and for our international airports to be factored into transit infrastructure planning by all levels of government.

Rick is a former Chief of Staff for the federal New Democratic Party, and has led many successful campaigns for important new public policies at the federal and provincial levels related to environmental and consumer protection, urban planning, green jobs creation, democratic reform and progressive taxation.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citplan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citPlan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

Legislating a new urban resource extraction policy, which requires mandatory consultation with urban municipalities before approving energy development projects within their boundaries, ensures licences are compatible with municipal development plans, and grants municipal governments veto power over the final licencing decision.

With other members of the Congress for New Urbanism, I contend that the mixed - use walkable neighborhood is the sine qua non of urban design and that it ought to be a focus of both public policy and urban planning, whether such neighborhoods are considered in isolation or in relation to other neighborhoods.

The challenge is to broaden the scope of policy debates beyond food supply chains and urban agriculture, to include strategic plans and reforms to tackle food systems.

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The school's Architecture & Environmental Design major involves interesting courses, but there isn't a ton on policy, planning, urban history, etc..

Rachel Weber is an associate professor at the University of Illinois - Chicago Department of Urban Planning and Policy who holds a doctorate in regional pPlanning and Policy who holds a doctorate in regional planningplanning.

Communities and Local Government sets policy on housing, local government, urban regeneration, planning, fire and rescue in England.

National planning policies coupled with government housing targets drive Local Planning Authorities to steadily increase the housing density within the currently designated urbaplanning policies coupled with government housing targets drive Local Planning Authorities to steadily increase the housing density within the currently designated urbaPlanning Authorities to steadily increase the housing density within the currently designated urban areas.

To designate a Green Belt, a local authority must prove why normal planning and development control policies would not be adequate to protect a town from urban sprawl.

Planning and urban policy, which normal cities view as this benign tool has been used as a powerful partisan tool to subordinate and control black people in Johannesburg and is still used that way against Palestinians in Jerusalem.

Chairman of the NYC Planning Commission Carl Weisbrod will unveil the de Blasio administration's latest zoning policies and urban - planning initPlanning Commission Carl Weisbrod will unveil the de Blasio administration's latest zoning policies and urban - planning initplanning initiatives.

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Mitchell Moss, Director, Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, Henry Hart Rice Professor Urban Policy and Planning at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

The winning regions will be picked by a panel of five people: Secretary of State Cesar Perales; RoAnn Destito, commissioner of the state's Office of General Services; Bruce Katz, who directs Brookings» metropolitan policy program; Urban League president Marc Morial and Susan Christopherson, the chair of Cornell's department of City & Regional Planning.

The Governor's Airport Advisory Panel is charged with producing recommendations on redesigns and modernization for our region's airports, and is comprised of the following appointees by the Governor: Amanda Burden, former commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning; Tony Collins, co-chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Jose Gomez - Ibanez, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard's Graduate School of Design; Queens Borough President Melinda Katz; DanTishman, CEO of Tishman Construction Corporation; Jacqueline Snyder, former head of the New York City Public Design Commission; John Zuccotti, co-chair of Brookfield Office Properties.

«They've played an invaluable role of maintaining the ongoing discourse on congestion pricing,» said Scott Rechler, chairman of the Regional Planning Association, an influential urban policy group, and another member of the state task force.

The complaint, filed last week with the State Elections Enforcement Commission, follows revelations that Foley included passages in his urban policy plan that were identical in wording to phrases previously published in a report by the Connecticut Policy Instpolicy plan that were identical in wording to phrases previously published in a report by the Connecticut Policy InstPolicy Institute.

In contrast to Sherrill and Arzt, Mitchell Moss, an urban policy and planning professor at NYU, wasn't much willing to credit Nixon's candidacy at all.

Department of City Planning Director and City Planning Commission Chair Carl Weisbrod is stepping down to chair the Trust for Governors Island, and Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been will return to her previous job teaching at New York University and directing NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.

ITDP today unveiled a new policy guide at the Urban Forum to evaluate real estate developments that integrate sustainable transport and land - use planning to connect people conveniently and safely to jobs, education, shopping and other opportunities.

Some of these policy strategies have been enumerated recently, all of which focus on reducing caloric intake or increasing physical activity, and include taxes on calorically dense, nutritionally sparse foods (eg, sugar - sweetened beverages); subsidies for healthier foods, especially in economically disadvantaged groups; agricultural policy changes; and urban planning aimed at encouraging walking and other modes of physical activity.

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.

The authors argue that cities need to step out of traditional roles in planning urban infrastructure and learn how to better understand the needs of residents in order to craft policies and programs that enable the adoption of energy and carbon - efficient technologies and practices.

That has impeded plans to reduce urban climate footprints and track the effectiveness of local policies designed to reduce emissions.

Currently, when transportation and urban planners evaluate alternative infrastructure investments and policies, they may need to account for health effects from local air quality, a consideration that warrants further planning to avoid negative outcomes, according to the researchers.

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.

So says Diana Reckien, of Columbia University in the US, in a study published in Springer's journal Climatic Change that analysed the relevant strategic policies and planning documents of 200 urban areas in eleven European countries.

Ackerman received her doctorate in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from HGSE's Urban Superintendents Program (USP) in 2001.

The project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional schools, including those focused on education, public health, public policy, and urban planning and design, develop knowledge that they hope will be useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving education, and increasing the quality of life for us all.

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La Mikia holds dual master's degrees in public policy and urban planning from the University of Southern California, and bachelor's degrees in ethnic studies and urban studies & planning from the University of California, San Diego.

Strong technical skills, particularly in integrating technology in the classroom to drive academic achievement Demonstrated volunteer or community service At least one (or more) of the following: o National Board Certificationo TAP Experience (sign on bonus for TAP certification) o Core Knowledge Experienceo Experience with Blended Learningo At least two years of successful teaching in an urban environment ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS: An Elementary School teacher is required to perform the following duties: Plan and implement a blended learning environment, providing direct and indirect instruction in the areas of Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, Health, and Mathematics based on state standards Participation in all TAP requirements, focusing on data - driven instruction Create inviting, innovative and engaging learning environment that develops student critical thinking and problem solving skills Prepare students for strong academic achievement and passing of all required assessments Communicate regularly with parents Continually assess student progress toward mastery of standards and keep students and parents well informed of student progress by collecting and tracking data, providing daily feedback, weekly assessments, and occasional parent / teacher conferences Work with the Special Education teachers and administration to serve special needs students in the classroom Attend all grade level and staff meetings and attend designated school functions outside of school hours Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom you are responsible Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff Perform necessary duties including but not limited to morning, lunch, dismissal, and after - school duties Preforms other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal Dress professionally and uphold all school policies

In 2002, Harvard University Graduate School of Education awarded her a Doctor of Education in Administration, Planning and Social Policy Concentration in Urban Superintendency [I guess that is a word at Harvard].

In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) Balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) Understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) Long - term pl...

Well, probably not, but if he did look to a 2003 urban planning simulation game, don't go blaming developer Maxis if that economic policy fails.

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.

Passionate about resiliency, her projects have included master planning ecotourism infrastructure in Central and South America, regional sustainable economic policy modeling and implementation, research and evidence - based sustainable land reclamation in sub-Saharan Africa, therapeutic landscapes, and sustainable revitalization of fragmented urban cores.

Though the unrest roiling Turkey began as an environmental protest, the police brutality in response and the prime minister's imperious reaction have brought hundreds of thousands out into the streets to protest the government's social policies, urban - planning agenda, assaults on press freedom, and heavy - handed approach to its critics — to name just a few of the grievances.

Certainly the Green Building Council and some other certification groups are helping in that direction, but they do not, for instance, set policy, do urban planning, or, as sometimes appears to be a problem in the small city I live in and elsewhere, keep the City Council from overriding their own City Plan when it is in the Council's own interest.