The researchers are learning a great deal about emissions in the urban environment.
Not until the late 1980s and 1990s did architects grapple once again with how to incorporate garages into the urban environment.
The potential for mobile devices to transform the urban environment is of particular interest to Anthony Townsend, an urban planner at the Taub Urban Research Centre at New York University.
For the i3, the BMW Hofmeister kink, a low forward bend in the C-pillar of the car, holds the glass and maximizes visibility to connect passengers to the urban environment.
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Dedicated to offering the public "powerful experiences with art and the urban environment, " the fund's other projects have included bringing Jeff Koons's topiary-puppy sculpture to Rockefeller Center and Rob Pruitt's statue of Andy Warhol to Union Square.
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"They contrast between the solitary pansy and the high rise urban environment it was planted is profound, " he said.
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It is now estimated that around half the world's population is living in an urban environment and the figure is expected to rise over the next few decades.
The Segway Human Transporter may or may not change the face of urban transportation, save the environment and bring back Elvis, but it is a pisser to ride.
He added that it was more likely the driver would be able to actively operate the vehicle in some places, but once he or she got into a controlled urban environment, the vehicle would take over.
Is this project related to the built environment or the urban residential setting?
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Allied with the island's compact urban environment -- huge expanses of open space are rare -- and you get an unhealthy "visual lifestyle, " says the health ministry's Rajan.
The students designed a progressive urban environment that can handle large amounts of storm-water runoff by using green technologies and major roadways as storm-water filtration and transport surfaces.
Although for developers like Urban Splash or the Environment Trust, or similar private, trust or charity based organisations, there is the scope to listen to residents, for most large developers, their overriding concern is to their shareholders whose interests (profit maximisation) are opposite to those of local residents (community focus, low energy-cost housing, etc.).
In the current environment, the e-commerce channel is driving Urban Outfitters and the overall apparel industry including holiday sales.
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And one interesting change in the importance of location is that newly minted graduates of MIT and Harvard want to live and work in an urban environment rather than living in the suburbs and commuting to an office park near a major urban ring road.
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Some New Orleans neighborhoods remind me of pre-1980 Greenwich Village, offering a charming urban environment without either the extortionate price tag or oppressive density.
But in the sort of accident the iQ is likely to have in an urban environment, it seems pretty fortified.
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In a different urban environment just one train stop from the hubbub of Glasgow's central station, another beekeeper is checking on his hives.
Investing in infrastructure could enhance market efficiencies, promote green jobs, improve the environment and provide needed employment opportunities in urban and rural communities, as well as on Native American Tribal Lands.
Today, our cities are faced with overdevelopment that has simultaneously damaged our environment, isolated low-income communities in the urban core, and maintained an unsustainable economic model.
Others put the future of humanity into stark context, warning that our rate of urban growth is unsustainable and destructive to communities and to the environment.
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C. to Boston, bike sharing has become an increasingly popular way for people to travel around urban environments while decreasing vehicular congestion and doing something positive for the environment.
To many young women, particularly in the urban middle class, the high-profile global beauty contests are keys to a more liberal environment as well as new opportunities.
The picture conveys a vivid sense of the dangers, both physical and emotional, of day-to-day existence in this ravaged urban environment.
Still, urban exploration remains a popular pastime, as it can be done in any manmade environment anywhere in the world.
The conference sessions will have deliberations on various topics such as urban reforms, safety and security, energy efficiency, environment, affordable housing and e-governance.
And so the issues around quality education are present in New Orleans in a dramatic way, but those are also present in any major urban city in the country - issues around health, issues around, kind of, your relationship to your environment, how it impacts you, how you impact it -all of that is present in New Orleans.
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