The bill made New Orleans the greatest urban-revival opportunity in recent American history, and planners and architects from around the world gathered to help.
The annual Richard J. Daley Global Cities Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, named for his father, attracts mayors, city planners and academics from around the world.
With its narrow medieval city centre streets and broad 20th-century boulevards, Copenhagen continues to inspire planners and politicians from around the world who can squint a bit and see their home city superimposed on retinal images of the Danish capital.
Last month Mr. Garvin addressed a conclave of architects, planners and public officials from around the country and abroad, who met on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of New York's landmark 1961 zoning resolution.
At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington last month, in which both of us took part, scientists, planners and emergency managers from around the globe discussed increasing concerns about space weather and the risks it poses to international human and economic well-being and national security.
Furthermore, health decision makers and planners all around the world make extensive use of mortality statistics, the quality of which depends on the DCs.
Scurrying about were hundreds of public officials, planners, philanthropists, educators and businessmen from around the world at a Global Metro Summit convened by the London School of Economics, Washington's Brookings Institution and the Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank.
These street reformers — planners, architects and urban officials from around the globe — are questioning the conventional street-curb-sidewalk motif, challenging the dominance of cars, and devising ways to use street furniture, plants and even radical new vehicles to transform the experience of the street.
All of this has allowed urban planners from this place, known as the Rose City, to dine out around the country, extolling "the Portland Story".
