Mr. ROBERT CEVERO (Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley): Hi.
Robert Cervero is chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
In September 2008 the governors of the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin formed an alliance to co-operate on regional planning.
It suggests councils in England have cut homebuilding targets by more than 270, 000 since regional planning frameworks were abolished in 2010.
"As promised in the Coalition Agreement, this government is abolishing the ineffective, unpopular and bureaucratic tier of regional planning, " the spokesman said.
Before that, she was Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's homeland security advisor, guiding regional planning and the state's first interoperability plan, and overseeing the National Guard.
The daughter of a Tucson school board member, she attended Scripps College in California and later at Cornell, where she studied regional planning.
This included opposition to the government's decision not to allow the regional planning process to reconsider the principle of a second runway at Stansted.
Nonetheless, says Pat Stevens of the regional planning authority, the city will not be able to cope without the water the Corps had promised it.
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"I can't get too excited about this Vegas thing, " says Emily Talen, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
This entails creating a new planning authority under the mayor of Jerusalem, and devolving on to it the regional planning powers previously exercised by the army.
We are currently planning a national workshop for next Spring, and reviewing guidance on the composition of the Regional Planning Bodies that will lead the regional efforts.
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In particular, the National Ocean Council will obtain input from our Governance Coordinating Committee, composed of states, tribes, and local government representatives, on additional representation on the regional planning bodies.
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Natural climate variability, from seasonal to multi-year scale, has produced significant effects in the Latin American countries, which suggests that climatic change projections constitute an important element for national and regional planning.
The National Ocean Council will be using the many suggestions proffered during the workshop, along with advice gathered from continued dialogue with partners and stakeholders to further inform the establishment of regional planning bodies in the months ahead.
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The States Parties are encouraged to integrate the protection of the cultural and natural heritage into regional planning programmes, set up staff and services at their sites, undertake scientific and technical conservation research and adopt measures which give this heritage a function in the day-to-day life of the community.
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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It also requires that local and regional transmission planning processes consider transmission needs driven by public policy requirements.
Taranco was educated at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied first economics and then urban-regional economic planning.
The rule requires public utility transmission providers to participate in a regional transmission planning process and coordinate to determine if there are more efficient or cost-effective solutions to their mutual transmission needs.
We now know that the Pac-12 was planning regional networks across its footprint.
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The offices of the Los Angeles County Regional Department of Planning, which issued the permit for the solar farm, were closed Friday and telephone calls were not returned.
For years, the regional government has been planning redevelopment of the area, in an apparent effort to emulate the likes of Shanghai, which China transformed into a skyscraper metropolis during the economic boom of the 1990s.
James Eadie QC, who represented the Communities Secretary, argued in court that Mr Pickles had power to revoke the entire regional strategy tier of planning policy guidance and was entitled to do so as it was not operating in the public interest.
The gendarmes drove about 50 vehicles with sirens blaring to their regional headquarters, where they were planning to have a "collective medical check-up" with the aim of being diagnosed with depression.
Regional airline Flybe also said it was planning to cut about 300 jobs.
The report places great emphasis on the regional framework for conflict resolution and economic planning, privileging it over local, national and international frameworks.
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Regional airline Flybe has said it is planning to cut about 300 jobs as part of a programme to return the carrier to profitability in 2013-14.
Last week, it produced a report recommending that a regional assembly should take charge of most regional public spending and make decisions about economic planning and development, transport, training, health and the arts.
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