"Whenever you draw up a project plan with the intention of it being realised," he wrote, "you have to accept it will eventually be annihilated".
A month after his election he created a group of eight cardinals to "advise him on the government of the universal church" and to draw up a project for the reform of the Curia.
Veteran Swiss tunnel engineer Giovanni Lombardi has been called in by the governments of both countries to draw up a project outlining how work could proceed towards creating the only direct physical link between the two continents.
It drew up a project for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to make long-term capital available to states urgently needing such foreign aid, and a project for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to finance short-term imbalances in international payments in order to stabilize exchange rates.
In 1976, with aid from UNDP and FAO, the Corporation drew up a project to plan and execute the improvement of the watersheds affected by Hurricane Fifi in the Sierra de Omoa, a mountain chain in the northeast of the country, covering an area of 720 km².
At the second regional rail summit at Westminster, MPs, councillors, business leaders and industry representatives moved closer to drawing up a wish list of projects which will need to be funded over the next 20 years.
In a bid to ease the housing crisis, developers are obliged to provide a set proportion of affordable homes when they draw up a new project, but they are often able to negotiate this figure down with local planners.
The field of artificial intelligence was born in a fit of scientific optimism, in 1955, when a small group of researchers — three mathematicians and an I.B.M. programmer — drew up a proposal for a project at Dartmouth.
But Ms. Segarra complained that this year, Mr. Levy rebuffed the board's request that he draw up a list of projects that could be deferred or cut.
They were given until February to draw up a list of projects that would be unaffected by the proposal should it be approved.
The desire to draw up a city, and to project its logic directly on to the ground, is not so different from new settlements today in Abu Dhabi, South Korea or anywhere that development is rampant.
