The task force, chaired by the council's city development director, Mike Galloway, will meet regularly.
Transport developments will be no less powerful an influence in shaping city development in the next century.
As a city, Buenos Aires gives us an unusually clear picture of the two core aspects of global city development.
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Drawing entries for iPads, game systems, gift cards, and a variety of other rewards can be earned by participation and city development.
"Something that's really relevant and adds to the culture of the city, " says Mike Galloway, the director of city development for Dundee City Council.
Once players have completed requirements to enter the grand prize contest, they are free to spend their time working on side prizes and city development.
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Andrew Holmes, the council's director of city development, is dismayed that Edinburgh has been given only 7% of the government's budget for developing social housing for lower-paid workers.
During Mubarak's regime, government planners unveiled a plan for city development called "Cairo 2050" -- a 260-slide PowerPoint presentation that garnered immediate condemnation for its top-down mandates delivered as mega-projects that would relocate large numbers of mostly poor residents.
Stanford was joined by 26 other institutions in submitting expressions of interest Wednesday to the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
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"This is the biggest inner-city land development project in the country right now, " says Mark Lautman, Mesa del Sol's director of economic development.
At Edinburgh City Councils development subcommittee councillors backed the company by 11 votes to two, granting Artisan a three-year extension to the original planning consents.
Marc Jahr of the New York City Housing Development Corporation chairs the coalition and it is vice chaired by Marc Gerken of American Municipal Power.
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He's been working hard behind the scenes with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to develop a new hub of clothing manufacturing and design in Manhattan.
For example, our local co-working space, The Grove, received assistance through Project Storefronts, a city economic development program to help boost the vitality of the Ninth Square neighborhood.
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The site had then been earmarked for offices, but this was shelved when the city council wanted such development in the city centre instead, he said.
Dave Anderson, the city's development director, hopes that 2, 200 houses, plus shops and offices, will follow.
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Under the plan by Mr. Baron and the city, the development would include community swimming pools and apartments with central air.
"Johannesburg is using the World Cup as a springboard to accelerate the city's development schedule agenda and to initiate projects that will provide a lasting legacy for its citizens, " says Sibongile Mazibuko, Johannesburg's executive for 2010.
That is why the CBD has programmes of work on all of these issues, and why our 2011-2020 strategic plan was negotiated and adopted with the participation of stakeholders at every level: youth, indigenous leaders, city mayors, development agencies, the climate change community, parliamentarians, business leaders, environment ministers and heads of state.
Now, Mr. Bacon won't budge and, along with other hotel tenants, has hired lawyers to argue to Toronto City Council that the development breaches its own legal requirements on maintaining rental stock in the city.
In a report which went to Tuesday's meeting of the city council's development management committee, planners said the benefits of the plan outweighed any negative impact on the city's heritage assets.
Wakefield City Council backed the development on green-belt land bordering Leeds and Wakefield in 2010.
Sarel Gous is to brief Belfast City Council's development committee on plans for the Titanic II.
Seth Pinsky, president of New York City's Economic Development Corporation, who helped lead the contest, echoed the sentiments.
In downtown Geneva, Daniel Loeffler of the city's Economic Development Office has also seen a spike in interest, this time from companies.
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City-funded urban development projects are installing a pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, and a real estate boom is enabling a young, creative class of artists and entrepreneurs to open hip boutiques and restaurants.
Barkat has a vision of setting up a council of metropolitan Jerusalem that will involve the heads of the Jewish communities around the city in its overall development plans.
Mayor Jerremiah Healy said the project was a major victory in efforts to create jobs on the former industrial sites that have been a drag on the city's economic development.
On that front, the mayor scored quite a coup from American Airlines, which essentially financed the entire project by paying off bonds originally floated by New York City's Industrial Development Agency.
The local controversy has focused on the loss of a seven-day newspaper, and that is a terrible, baffling development in city with a lot of residents who lack an Internet connection.
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