Once we get a lot of data onto maps, we can really begin to understand reality in much different ways, like where to build a house to increase the happiness of the people inside it, how to make routes that avoid accidents, and how to design better urban systems.
We are working hard to persuade planners and developers to use sustainable urban drainage systems, which collect and treat urban run-off before it reaches rivers.
Millions of people travel on underground urban transit systems in cities across the world.
Vallas has made a name for himself running troubled urban school systems in both Philadelphia and Chicago.
Radical versus incremental change - how to SWItCH urban water systems to meet current and future challenges?
Since the mid-1960s, federal, state and local governments have spent hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing government-run urban transit systems.
Large urban school systems have now predominantly become black and Latino majority.
One heavy storm can cause ageing urban sewerage systems to overflow.
The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems.
He told delegates that steps such as setting tighter rules on car emissions, regulating for energy efficient goods and building urban mass transit systems are already having an impact that can be measured.
For the past quarter century, The Posse Foundation has been identifying talented students from large urban public school systems and sending them in teams (Posses) to some of the top colleges and universities in the nation.
In this event, participants will explore if and how cities in a developing country context can accelerate the development of their urban water management systems by by-passing conventional, centralized approaches and promoting more decentralized and flexible solutions that promise a higher degree of sustainability.
With that comes opportunities of great interventions, new projects, rethinking urban transportation, creating vast new park systems, and experimenting with urban design strategies that might improve the quality of urban life.
GISCorps is part of URISA, the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association.
That said, some internship listings specify that they do not pay, and instead offer college credit, like positions at Urban Outfitters and BAE Systems.
Charging motorists for scarce road space, with most of the revenues being used to finance improvements in bus, rail or urban mass-transit systems, is the only sensible route to restraint.
While other BRT systems operate in urban areas, which typically span 5-10 miles, VelociRFTA BRT will connect five towns from Glenwood Springs to Aspen, Colorado, along a 42-mile stretch of Colorado State Highway 82 (SH82).
Among Roth's accomplishments: designing networks for kidney donations and creating elegant systems that enable huge urban school districts to optimally place multitudes of students among hundreds of schools.
The rush-hour crush in the biggest Japanese cities, already a trying routine, might well resemble urban warfare but for their extensive subway systems (about 171 km in Tokyo and 115 km in Osaka).
But human fecklessness is also to blame, including wastage, urban, industrial and agricultural pollution, absence of purifying systems and frequently poor democratic and financial management of the sector.
That change in perception is providing more momentum for some cities that were already moving away from six-lane highways and suburbs dozens of miles apart, to a series of urban centers connected by light rail and other mass transit systems.
CNN: U.S. cities scrambling to meet rising mass transit demands
We also recognize the vital ties between our urban and suburban communities and their local farmers through regional food systems, farmers markets, and community gardens.
Urban planners advise that cities with populations of more than 2 million should have mass transit systems.
Fortunately, some of the urban areas on the list of cities that are worst for drivers are also among those having the best public transportation systems in the nation, including NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Washington D.
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