The gridded, cobblestoned town streets are the product of Inca city planning, dating back to the 1200s.
Those projects would still require approval by the City Planning Commission and City Council.
Madison Square Garden wants the permit renewed in perpetuity, while the city Planning Commission is recommending a 15-year limit.
In the U.S. IBM and Cisco have long been championing the idea that city planning is the ultimate green solution.
"They are essentially designed for people with money, " says Vanessa Watson, professor of city planning at the University of Cape Town.
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There is little disagreement that London has essentially resisted organised city planning.
The City Planning Department and the Municipal Art Society collaborated to upgrade the Jets' proposal with a more rational use of existing streets and facilities.
As the head of one such project, the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor, told the Business Standard, the private sector wants more city planning before diving in.
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But they all smelled something fishy about the way the developer and the city planning officials engineered changes in the plan after they had bought their flats.
Even locals and compass equipped cartographers lose their way in millennia-old Medina streets flanked by some 3, 000 derbs (winding alleys), which predate city planning and defy satellite mapping.
The Department of City Planning will be releasing more detailed design guidelines on April 8 in its race to get the rezoning certified before the Bloomberg administration disperses.
And in the Bloomberg administration, as wielded by the New York City Planning Commission and its director, Amanda Burden, zoning has assumed a more activist role than ever before.
"All over the country there are signs that say 'Central Business District, '" reported Alexander Garvin, an urban planner who is a former commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission.
The momentum of 30 years ago, when Portland underwent a city planning revolution under the helm of Gov. McCall and Neil Goldschmidt, Portland's mayor from 1973 to 1979, has slowed.
The Department of City Planning report even cites conversion to hotels and condos as one of the drags on the ability of Midtown East to compete with the likes of Shanghai and Hong Kong.
"What I think we really need to focus on are more fuel-efficient vehicles, better city planning for the number and types of vehicles on the road, and more public transportation options, " Curtis Lewis said.
The Department of City Planning is recommending that the City Council renew the special permit for the self-proclaimed "World's Most Famous Arena" for only 15 years, rather than "in perpetuity, " as requested by the Madison Square Garden Co.
"I am extremely disappointed to learn that the developer of Riverside Center has chosen not to retain Christian de Portzamparc as architect for this project, " said Amanda Burden, director of the Department of City Planning, in an emailed statement Friday.
Covering 78 blocks that fan out around Grand Central and up Park Avenue, from East 39th Street to East 57th Street, and from Fifth Avenue as far as Second Avenue, the rezoning proposal was first presented by the Department of City Planning in July 2012 and updated with more details on Feb. 28.
The City and House sections of the exhibition are linked, since Kahn saw the planning of a city much like the planning of a house, with areas of the city defined like rooms with specific uses.
The 60, 000 capacity ground at Stanley Park has been unanimously approved by Liverpool City Council planning committee after a five-hour meeting.
Coventry City are planning to move to a new 45, 000-seater stadium the first in Britain with a retractable roof which will be built on 53 acres of derelict land in the north of the city.
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Nottingham City Council is planning to move schools to a five-term year with shorter summer holidays.
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Robert Cervero is chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
But the city's planning agencies are reduced to a subservient, reactive role.
He added that he anticipated a "masterplan" would be submitted to Westminster City Council for planning consent by the end of 2009.
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