Sentence examples for reconstructing cities from inspiring English sources

Future directions include fuller integration of social, health and economic indicators into the urban metabolism framework, while tackling the great sustainability challenge of reconstructing cities.

That means that you're going to see a serious reorganization, since people are going to have to find new jobs, and, obviously, reconstructing cities demands different kinds of skills than are needed when a city is running normally.

A Chilean architect who has focused his career on building low-cost social housing and reconstructing cities after natural disasters has been named the winner of architecture's highest prize, the Pritzker.

They also retained Cook, whom they believe has the ambition, and ability, to reconstruct City's operation into one befitting a truly top club.

Polish planners applied their expertise in reconstructing destroyed cities. Switzerland contributed schools, the USSR a concrete panel factory, Poland the Museum of Modern Art.

aIn Europe, and especially in the (at that time) two Germanies, the International Style was imposed by necessity, due to the great need of reconstructing the cities that had been bombed.

Only in the last couple of years has work got underway on reconstructing the city's devastated centre.

The Romans set about reconstructing their city almost immediately, surrounding it with a continuous wall of huge tufa blocks.

However, the process of reconstructing the city from maps depicting features such as building footprints and roads can be labour intensive.

In the shorter term, Bush advisers worry that it will reopen Katrina wounds and complicate the president's efforts to bring together quarreling parties to focus on reconstructing the city and region.

But how did the international project of 1965 – which saw the UN and the world's finest planners and architects reconstructing a city on the most advanced lines – fail to leave a legacy?