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Street Lab brings family-friendly pop-up play zones to streets

The Buffalo News 02 Apr 2023

The pop-ups borrow from an urban tradition of using streets and other public spaces for temporary (and sometimes unsanctioned) activities, such as turning curbside parking spots into "parklets," Mike Lydon, an urban planner, said ... Short-term actions can eventually catalyze long-term change, an approach that Lydon described as "tactical urbanism."

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This Italian Architect Emphasizes The Connection Between Nature And The City

Forbes 01 Apr 2023

Known for inventing the Vertical Forest, a new model of ...

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City Planning congratulates Bronx seniors on completing youth engagement curriculum

Bronx Times 01 Apr 2023

All graduating students received a certificate of Youth Engagement — Urban Planning Pilot Program ... The course featured planners and urban designers as well as teachers from The Laboratory School who comprise the government team; and included input from city agencies with deep expertise in housing, parks, economic development and many more issues.

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LILLEY: Story behind why Ford called Guilbeault 'a piece of work'

Canoe 01 Apr 2023

Story continues below ... LILLEY ... Play Video ... 27, 2023 ... He compared the building of houses near the Rouge Urban National Park to allowing a mine to be built at Jasper National Park ... This isn’t how Canada was set up, our constitution does not give the federal government the power to be municipal urban planners, but that is what Guilbeault is trying to do ... .

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CHA is open for business: Boss defends Chicago Fire lease, says agency is open to ...

Chicago Sun-Times 31 Mar 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development ... The area already has 3,500 mixed-use units, and the CHA plans to hire an urban planner for the next phase of two pending developments, the Oak and Larrabee and Parkside V, which should be planned out by 2024, according to a CHA spokesperson.

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COVID, Micron themes of Cayuga County economic luncheon

Auburnpub dot com 30 Mar 2023

David Wilcox. Moving on from COVID-19 and Micron moving in were the major themes of the Cayuga Economic Development Agency's first Economic Forecast Luncheon held in person since the pandemic ... People are also reading… ... March 24, 2023 Cayuga County-area police blotter ... author, urban planner, former politician and Auburn native Bill Fulton ... .

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Column: Electric grids need major upgrades to aid global energy transition: Maguire

Reuters 30 Mar 2023

Located along coastal communities in between offshore wind farms and inland cities, and in rural areas that are planned pathways for linking remote solar farms to urban hubs, these opponents present a challenge to grid planners just as complex as the technical hurdles they face ... Our Standards ... Gavin Maguire. Thomson Reuters ... Read Next ... ....

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PBS suggests waiting for final count as experts estimate Karachi population to be 17.5 million

The News International 30 Mar 2023

The magic number (or the final count) of Karachi’s total population has once again generated controversy as urban planners are estimating it to be around 17.5 million ... Urban planner and geographer Mohammad Toheed, associate director at the Karachi Urban Lab (KUL), calculated that ...

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Brunswick and Strongsville fought for years over a highway interchange. State lawmakers may have decided ...

Cleveland 30 Mar 2023

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ohio lawmakers on Wednesday approved a measure requiring the construction of a new Interstate 71 interchange between Strongsville and Brunswick, possibly bringing an end to a years-long battle between the two Cleveland suburbs ... Gov ... Regional planners, Patton said, have long sought to contain urban sprawl ... Footer Navigation ... Disclaimer.

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Urban planners collectively slam Navi Mumbai draft DP

Hindustan Times 29 Mar 2023

In a searing critique of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s maiden attempt to draft Development Plan 2038, a group of 35 urban professionals and planners, who have formed a Navi Mumbai Collective, have dubbed the DP as “unsound” and “myopic” ... urban planner Prachi Merchant.

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Florida Atlantic University professor engages in friendly rivalry with San Diego State colleague

WPTV 29 Mar 2023

— Dr. John Renne is a highly analytical urban planning expert at Florida Atlantic University ... On a Tuesday Zoom call, Renne engaged in a little friendly cross-country trash talk with his fellow urban planning expert, Dr ... Both urban planners are in the grip of March Madness, eagerly awaiting Saturday's showdown. .

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Sheikh Khaled: Rise of the leader over the years

Gulf News 29 Mar 2023

Abu Dhabi. Shaikh Khaled was born on January 8, 1982 in Abu Dhabi ... He has named and inaugurated the street formerly known as Al Sough Street, after late urban planner of Abdul Rahman Makhlouf. Renaming the street after the former Director of the Urban Planning honours his role in shaping Abu Dhabi’s early urban development during the 1960s and 1970s ... .

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How the Saudi Green Initiative has moved from ambition to action, two years on

Arab News 29 Mar 2023

Looking closer at this vast landscape and its sprawling urban ... However, due to a noticeable increase in annual heat waves and extreme weather patterns, scientists and urban planners have turned their focus on urban areas to develop new strategies for resilient built environments.

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Long effort to update Monmouth code comes to a close with council approval

Polk County Itemiser-Observer 29 Mar 2023

He said the document “made sense,” but added that “there are things in it that are over-reaching.” ... The second phase, for $64,900, was for drafting and adopting code amendments for updates identified in phase one, explained Ryan Marquardt, an urban land use and transportation planner with the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development.

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Pool closure is priority during community center discussion

Polk County Itemiser-Observer 29 Mar 2023

INDEPENDENCE – Is the town’s shuttered swimming pool dead in the water permanently, drowned by the high cost of repairs? Or will the concept of building a community center at the site float to the top of the city’s priority list? ... The informational event at the library was conducted by James Rojas, an urban planner based in Oakland, California ... +4.