Urban planners advise that cities with populations of more than 2 million should have mass transit systems.
There was once a moat, but 19th-century urban planners filled it in to get rid of mosquitoes.
The findings could help to inform urban planners and have an impact on society at large, they said.
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Nearly 200 architects, engineers and urban planners have been on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for the past week.
Urban planners continue to believe they can restrain suburbia and improve upon it.
These findings are aimed at urban planners, county and city councils and other groups involved in laying out communities.
For decades, urban planners pursued policies that systematically undermined our cities.
Also featured on the program would be psychologists, sociologists, and urban planners.
Urban planners have long known that cities have different characteristics, but the view from space makes assessing those characteristics faster and more accurate.
But this takes more than gifted urban planners and social engineers.
He and other like-minded architects and urban planners prefer another approach.
However, out there on the cutting edge, innovative urban planners, policy-makers, social entrepreneurs and impact investors are advancing the development of natural or green infrastructure (GI).
Architects, property developers and urban planners are changing their thinking about buildings and cities to accommodate the new habits of the nomads that dwell in them.
Urban planners say savings from lower energy bills and other operational efficiencies can more than cover the added expenses, but the break-even point can be years out.
These include activists at universities, urban planners and liberal nonprofits, many of whom see in Obama's pro-green policies and multicultural agenda the fulfillment of their long-time fantasies.
As New York City prepares for more large, destructive storms, many urban planners have raised the possibility of installing giant Rotterdam-style floodgates to protect the city.
The board is staffed by professional urban planners, representatives of the nature reserves authority and other statutory bodies who convene to determine whether building schemes comport with law and building regulations or not.
His suburbia is not so much a place as a kind of pragmatic resistance to the diktats of urban planners and architects, as well as to the stuffy preservation lobby that rules much of village England.
Urban planners at the University of the West of England estimate that the UK has lost 40% of its public toilets in the past decade, a process that has been exacerbated by local authority budget cuts.
The Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge dares students, technologists, designers, policy experts and urban planners, to come up with new solutions to take advantage of the existing pay phone framework and shape the future of public communications infrastructure.
Urban planners from as far away as Europe, Russia and Thailand have flocked to this room lately to soak up insights from what is likely the most ambitious and innovative urban makeover strategy in the world.
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However, on March 5, those of us who have long fancied ourselves as urban planners will get a completely modern version of "SimCity" to once again assist us in the gleeful neglect of our jobs, family, and personal hygiene.
The event last July was subtitled "New York Reinvented, " and some 150 French and European mayors, urban planners, developers and architects toured such recent local triumphs as the High Line, Brooklyn Bridge Park and community regeneration projects in the Bronx.
But rather than just shrinking, urban planners see an opportunity to re-imagine the city, building on its existing strengths an industrial backbone, leading universities and hospitals, and an abundance of land for redevelopment while investing for a modern, sustainable future.
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While the results of the study may seem obvious, they do provide support for urban planners who have long argued that denser communities are healthier because they foster social interaction, because they are--despite appearances--more environmentally friendly, and because they encourage more day-to-day physical activity.
"The goal of the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge is to collaboratively engage designers, urban planners and technologists in imagining an innovative future for the City's public communications infrastructure, and we have been humbled by the phenomenal talent and creativity of the initiative's participants, " said Chief Digital Officer Haot.
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"SimCity Social will entice a new generation of urban planners with its easy-to-use tools that allow anyone to expand and grow their own unique sprawling metropolises and watch as it comes to life in fun and unexpected ways, " said Jami Laes, Vice President of Global Studios for Playfish.
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And one way of doing that is to create what's called an infrastructure bank where at least a certain amount of infrastructure money, particularly for new projects, would be guided by some clear criteria, a lot of transparency, engineers and urban planners and city planners involved in the process so that we can also get some regional planning.
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These malls also play a surprisingly democratic function often under-appreciated by urban theorists, planners and purveyors of architectural nostalgia.
Merchant and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot announced the winning prototypes from the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a competition that engaged hundreds of urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and virtual prototypes that imagine the future of the City's approximately 11, 000 public pay telephones.
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