The white paper draws heavily on the report of the Urban Task Force, chaired by Lord Rogers, an architect, which was published 18 months ago.

ECONOMIST: Cities

Lord Rogers, a celebrated architect, was put in charge of the government's urban task-force.

ECONOMIST: The new establishment

In San Francisco, California, a volunteer organization called the Urban Wind Task Force has distributed 27 wind-monitoring stations throughout the city to survey sites for potential turbine installations.

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Last week, at the Sheffield conference, central government's representatives were anxious to stress that much bureaucratic and ministerial energy is being poured into the ideas for urban revival produced last year by a task force chaired by Lord Rogers, an architect.

ECONOMIST: English cities

Mansfield presented her findings to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Treasury Departments' Joint Task Force on Predatory Mortgage Lending and to the House Banking Committee.

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Stu Willig of Florida Task Force 2, one of eight urban search-and-rescue teams on the scene from across the country.

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West Midlands Police has said 45 urban street gangs operate in the area and is setting up a task force to tackle them.

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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, appearing with LaHood, said the task force he leads that is overseeing the federal disaster response examined 10 years of FEMA flood mitigation efforts to reach the new standard.

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There is established the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, which shall be chaired by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Chair).

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