Like these ones: Albert Freeman (@djalbertfreeman) Preparing City Park for the arrival of #AfricaExpress in #Bradford this morning.
Days later, in Tel Aviv preparing CityDance's planned tour of Israel in 2011, I found myself in conversation after conversation with Israelis who, far from being angered by our participation in the Ramallah festival, were enthusiastic about it — and about its possibilities.
Investors backed ambitious low-orbiting satellite systems and spent billions preparing cities for wireless high-speed Internet access.
In terms of preparing cities to be as disaster-resilient as possible, the UN's office for disaster risk reduction launched its Making Cities Resilient campaign in 2010, urging local governments to raise disaster resilience awareness among citizens, invest in risk-reduction activities, and build more safely.
The vision hasn't changed much, it's all about preparing cities for the future and upgrading infrastructure by making it more efficient through technology.
During all of this, federal dollars that could be spent preparing cities for the next natural disaster have been tied up thanks to a debate about whether or not climate change is the culprit for what's come before.
To prepare, city employees in recent weeks demolished 41 vacant buildings along the routes, trimmed 4,900 trees, removed 2,800 instances of graffiti and fixed hundreds of streetlights.
"Incorporating resilience planning and principles not only prepares cities for disasters and long-term threats," says Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, which also supports Guardian Cities.
To prepare cities for active aging (i.e., to turn the city into an age-friendly city) means to prevent problems associated with and respond to needs and preferences related to aging, considering and respecting the decisions of old people and their chosen lifestyle, promoting their inclusion, and mainly, recognizing their contribution in the community (Plouffe and Kalache 2010).
Manhattan Councilman Carter Burden urged a million dollar cut in city funds for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a 800,000 dollar cut in funds for preparing the city's Master Plan.
TomoGuides is preparing smartphone city guides that will be offered free.
