Sentences with word «urbanist»

From new urbanist developments featuring farms and community gardens to urban farms and community gardens tucked away in vacant lots, parks, school yards and rooftops, the concept of growing food where you live is taking root all across America.

The outgoing mayor says she has taken a teaching position at NYU, where she will be a «Visiting Distinguished Urbanist» in 2018.

Strong, pent - up demand for pedestrian - friendly urban communities and a limited supply of such areas are why housing prices in downtown and near - in areas are rising so quickly, according to Christopher Leinberger, a land use strategist and partner in Arcadia Land Co. a leading New Urbanist development firm in Albuquerque that is spearheading the rejuvenation of downtown Albuquerque as a mixed - use community.

I think of Bill Dunster and Zedfactory as committed urbanists, doing some of the most interesting and green multifamily developments in all of the UK.

This got picked up by a lot of other writers, and apparently it all adds up to a small victory for urbanists.

The Tutors: Paul Halliday: is a photographic artist, film - maker and urbanist who originally trained at the London College of Communications and Central Saint Martins Art School.

Advocated aggressive investment of public monies in lower - income communities and New Urbanist projects after taking office in 1999; spearheaded initiatives by the California State Teachers» Retirement System to channel $ 400 million into retail infill programs.

The new urbanist movement disdained the automobile - centric sprawl, which locked residents into the use of polluting cars for even the most basic trips.

Cuomo has no intention of getting Dolan to move Madison Square Garden from its stifling position on top of Penn Station, something that many urbanists consider essential to truly improving the station below.

Wong is an artist, independent curator, academic, and urbanist from Hong Kong.

One of the largest, Cleveland - based Forest City Enterprises, is developing the Stapleton new urbanist community on 4,700 acres (1,900 ha) of the former Denver airport, planned to include 3,500 single - family houses, 480 apartments, and 2 million square feet (186,000 sq m) of retail space.

But, as usual, the folks at Arup didn't stop at applying new urbanist principles, they decided to go all the way.

Surprisingly, as Web Urbanist points out, ice circles (also known as ice discs, ice pans) do form naturally out in the wild, but are rare occurrences.

LEED - ND looks to «encourage smart growth and new urbanist best practices, promote the design of neighborhoods that reduce vehicle miles traveled and communities where jobs and services are accessible by foot or public transit».

The prospect of a city designed by technologists, at least as a thought experiment until now, has made some nervous, urbanists especially.

A classic «garden suburb» in Sydney, which sounds like a new urbanist ideal, is being changed forever by the state government's imposition of high - rise apartments and businesses.

(It is also likely to require a change in the local zoning ordinance — but there are plenty of good New Urbanist designers around to assist congregations and parishes in this endeavor.)

Long before the New Urbanists began envisioning something inherently redeemable in our cities, John the evangelist was engaged in urban visioning.

Holy cities are not just divided by religion and politics, but, as the distinguished Israeli urbanist and former Jerusalem deputy mayor Meron Benvenisti noted, are polarized by religion and politics.

She is involved with Civic Voice, writes for the Global Urbanist and tweets from @fnbee22.

In the 1950s, celebrated urbanist Kevin Lynch studied how people make mental maps of built - up locations.

Oriental Urbanist is made of striped and floaty jaquard fabric, with pleats at the waistband to add volume.

New Urbanist enclave on the Panhandle made up of a David Rockwell — designed inn and rental residences near a coastal dune lake.

If architect and urbanist Richard Rogers's 1997 figures still hold, the world's cities are growing by a quarter of a million people a day.

Here, urbanist Randy Mason offers his perspective.

Today, with the failure of the suburban experiment and the looming end - of - the world predictions — from global warming and waste to post-peak oil energy crises and uncontrolled world urbanization — architects and urbanists find themselves once more at a crossroad, fertile for visionary thinking.

Architect and urbanist Manuel de Rivero is co-founder of 51 - 1 Arquitectos, an architecture studio based in Lima, Peru, and Supersudaca, an international collective for urban research.

In this suite of six etchings, Boshier features six characters: the celebrity, the fashion model, the corporate executive, a transsexual, a terrorist and the depressed urbanist.

He is also a founding director of the Urban Photographers» Association (UPA), convener of the International Urban Photography Summer School and creative director of UrbanPhotoFest working in partnership with Tate Britain and the International Association of Visual Urbanists.

Urbiquity curated two intense week - long programmes of walks, site visits and discussions during which a group of international artists, sociologists and urbanists produced bodies of work around the theme of Cartographies.

Marjorie Welish is on the Board of the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), and on the Advisory Board of Satellite Berlin, which also sponsors «Paper Architecture: Urbanism» (a collaborative project with Olivier Gourvil and urbanist Muriel Pagès).

Here's a video of the architect / urbanist giving a tour of his retrospective at the National Academy Museum in New York City.

Already in February, German architect Wilfried Wang believes the Swiss firm's design is severely lacking in both architectural and urbanist respects.

The exhibition also provided the opportunity for the artist to converse with the philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio, as well as with the astronaut Jean - Pierre Haigneré at the Mir space station.

After an open call for nominations, and an analysis of age, redevelopment potential, savings, mobility, existing plans and local support, the new urbanists compiled the following list of highways with the greatest potential for teardown and urban regeneration:

New Urbanism and the Meltdown tells why New Urbanist places will continue to fare better post-Meltdown than suburban sprawl.

For more on high - speed rail in the US and elsewhere: The TH Interview: Andy Kunz, New Urbanist High - Speed Passenger Rail Comes to the Americas Spain's New High - Speed Rail Service Challenges the Airlines Europe's High - Speed Train Networks Continue to Expand

It's a street where tactical urbanists had to embarrass the city into fixing the road that was so rough your teeth would rattle.