Its textile mills, public buildings and workers' housing are built in a harmonious style of high architectural standards and the urban plan survives intact, giving a vivid impression of Victorian philanthropic paternalism.
Assume that no foolish urban plan exists to bulldoze away the centuries-old warren of narrow streets, and the likelihood is that the quartier will remain special for many years yet.
Fernandez, a patient of five years at the Urban Health Plan clinic, said the iris scanning makes his visits more convenient.
CNN: At Bronx clinic, the eyes are windows to medical records
Urban Health Plan, which serves mostly the uninsured and underserved, fully integrated iris identification to match patients to their medical records in 2009.
CNN: At Bronx clinic, the eyes are windows to medical records
By using the eye scanner at Urban Health Plan, Maria Hernandez would get her specific medical record and not get mixed up with another person who has the same name.
CNN: At Bronx clinic, the eyes are windows to medical records
If a health worker is "busy and doing a couple different things, it's easy to click on the wrong one, " said Alison Connelly-Flores, the clinical system administrator at Urban Health Plan.
CNN: At Bronx clinic, the eyes are windows to medical records
"There are many patients with similar names and you want to make sure you get the right patient, " said Dr. Samuel De Leon, the chief medical officer at Urban Health Plan.
CNN: At Bronx clinic, the eyes are windows to medical records
Urban Green Energy and GE plan to sell the system to commercial and government customers.
In fact, it's a lot fairer than the funding formula in a traditional defined benefit plan, argues Urban Institute retirement and tax policy expert Eugene Steuerle .
During the two-day meeting, a holistic discussion took place around the management plan for the World Heritage Property, the Cultural Master Plan for Bamiyan, urban planning and transport issues, including roads and aviation.
He doesn't trust the Department of Housing and Urban Development's explanation that the plan to remove his home was in place prior to the storm.
In 1991, some of Xalapa's poorest residents aligned with an urban planning group and devised a remarkable plan designed to give them a sense that they belonged to -- and were respected by -- their community.
In a report released on Wednesday, the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit urban research group, said many of the city's largest projects, from Battery Park City to the revamping of Columbus Circle, have dragged on for years longer than initially projected.
That's the plan behind the Power Line Urban Sentry (PLUS) project currently being run by the Air Force Research Laboratory and private firm Defense Research Associates, and it's already yielded UAVs that can land on power lines and charge in three hours.
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The plan will probably tilt away from urban needs.
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The proponents of the plan reportedly were caught flat-footed when urban blacks and environmentalists, which should have been their natural partners, coalesced against the project.
Urban vows to stick with Harbour until he finds an affordable plan that meets his family's needs.
Even urban Chinese are now being strongly encouraged by their government to plan two trips a year within China, and to spend about ten percent of their disposable income on such travel.
We also kept things cool with a remarkable plan to transform frozen construction sites into event-hosting urban icebergs.
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Its plan includes raising the minimum wage to 40% of average urban salaries by 2015.
It's a private sector plan, brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson.
Marin County cut urban water use from 170 to 143 gallons a head between 1987 and 1998 by a plan involving staggered water rates.
The Chairman of the TPCC shall set forth the steps taken to implement this plan in the annual report to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives required by the Export Enhancement Act of 1992, Public Law 102-249, 106 Stat. 2186, and Executive Order 12870, as amended.
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"It's very hard to make calculations on what type of plan to purchase, " says Linda Blumberg, a health-policy analyst at the Urban Institute.
In Seoul's government offices urban planning director Kang Maeng-Hoon is trying a new approach - taking over the billion-dollar plan to make sure Guryong's residents are not squeezed out again.
The plan is to transfer the Giotto Tower, Verona Tower, Little Chimney and the Engine House in Holbeck Urban Village into a trust.
He became a full-time "urban naturalist" for the Audubon Society and played a key role in the development of metropolitan Portland's regional plan for natural areas.
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