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unusual facts about urban development



Danville River District

The Danville River District is a development project undertaken by the City of Danville, Virginia aimed at revitalizing the aging Danville Historic District and Tobacco Warehouse District.

Simon Racine

Racine was in charge of the urban development between 2001 and 2005 and retained a major role in that committee until 2009, but Denise Laferrière was chosen in 2005 by mayor-elect Marc Bureau to head that committee, with Racine being her assistant.


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Architecture of Denmark

Four young practices, CEBRA, COBE, Transform and Effekt, won the main Golden Lion award at the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture for their Co-Evolution project, featuring proposals for sustainable urban development in four major Chinese cities.

Bobby Hakim

Firhad Hakim is an Indian politician and the present Minister for Urban Development and the Minister for Municipal Affairs in the Government of West Bengal.

Coastal flood

Building regulations, coastal hazard zoning, urban development planning, spreading the risk through insurance and enhancing public awareness are some ways of achieving this.

Destiny, Florida

Destiny, Florida is a large-scale urban development project in Osceola County near Yeehaw Junction, Florida.

Deutsche Bank Twin Towers

Petra Roth, Mayor of the City of Frankfurt am Main, emphasized in her welcoming remarks the importance of green and sustainable buildings in urban development.

East Tennessee Community Design Center

The first project of the Community Design Center was a neighborhood plan for Fort Sanders, funded through the East Tennessee Development District, using a Housing and Urban Development grant intended to assist grassroots planning.

Erica verticillata

Although the species became functionally extinct due to agricultural and urban development of its habitat in the early 20th century, cuttings from several plants discovered in the wild in the later 20th century have ensured that the species will continue in cultivation.

Federal Ministries of Nigeria

On 6 April 2010, Mohammed Daggash was appointed Minister of Works and Nduese Essien was appointed Minister of Lands, Housing & Urban Development.

George Romney

George W. Romney (1907–1995), CEO of American Motors, Governor of Michigan, U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, father of Mitt Romney

Hunter Estuary Wetlands

It contains Melaleuca swamp forest, freshwater reed marsh, and a mangrove-lined creek, surrounded by urban development.

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

In December 2007, the Lincoln Institute and Peking University established the Center for Urban Development and Land Policy, located on the University’s Beijing campus.

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority

The MMRDA comprises 17 members and is chaired by the Minister for Urban Development in Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan (who is also the current Chief Minister of Maharashtra).

Opera Design Matters

1st prize for the Santarém Strategic Project of the riverside area - Real Estate National Portuguese Awards 2009 - Urban development category

Pointe-à-Pitre

After the return of Guadeloupe to France in 1763, the city of Pointe-à-Pitre was officially founded under governor Gabriel de Clieu in 1764 by a royal edict, and the swamps where downtown Pointe-à-Pitre stands today were drained in the following years, thus allowing the urban development of the city.

Prathima Manohar

She was a contributing columnist on architecture, urban development and design for The Times of India.

Princes Park, Liverpool

With its serpentine lake and a circular carriage drive, the park set a style which was to be widely emulated in Victorian urban development, most notably by Paxton himself on a larger scale at Birkenhead Park.

Salvador Milà i Solsona

Since then, he has been working as a lawyer in Mataró, specializing in administrative, urban development and civil law.

Milà was elected Town Councilor of Mataró in 1979 for the PSUC list, headed by Antoni Segarra, where he took care of urban development until 1984.

Street hierarchy

Use of the street hierarchy is a nearly universal characteristic of the "edge city", a roughly post-1970 form of urban development exemplified by places such as Tysons Corner, Virginia, and Schaumburg, Illinois.

Surat Metropolitan Region

The Surat Urban Development Authority has faced difficulties in developing proper integrated planning of the region as result of which a new urban development body (Surat Metropolitan Region Development Authority) was planned in 2008 for the entire Surat Metropolitan Region.

Taitā, New Zealand

Its urban development began around the middle of the 20th century as part of the Labour Government's State housing scheme.

Tourism in the Basque Autonomous Community

The city in Biscay is composed of the titanium which protects the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, the glass which covers the entrances to the metro, designed by Norman Foster, or the steel which makes new urban development challenges possible such as the Isozaki Atea Towers by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, or Bilbao Airport by Santiago Calatrava.

United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

The United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies is a Congressional subcommittee of the United States House Committee on Appropriations.

Urban Land

Past and current contributors have included such prominent individuals as former Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa; urban scholar Richard Florida; economist and Brookings Institution fellow Anthony Downs; former director of land use planning for The Conservation Fund Ed McMahon; former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Henry Cisneros; and Brookings Institution fellow Christopher B. Leinberger.

Vedat Dalokay

Later in 1952, he completed his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Urbanism and Urban Development of Sorbonne University in Paris, France.