As the current parks commissioner, whose mentor,Henry Stern, was Mr. Hoving's deputy and parks commissioner himself for 15 years, I've long been a fan of their innovative efforts at a form of reclamation often overlooked in our bustling city — reclaiming the silence and natural beauty of tiny urban spaces in the middle of urban clutter and chatter.
Modeling urban clutter is difficult, and moreover not straightforward to model stochastically.
Further, occassionally elevation is ignored, and the effect of spatial correlation on the systems performance can be misleading, especially in urban clutter types.
In New York, the lost silent men might be dismissively called bag men, those faceless street people blended into the contemporary urban landscape, no longer cluttering it, just taken for granted, passed over, even stepped over.
These more dramatically negative qualities can be experienced in a squalid urban space, deafening noise, cluttered billboard with gaudy signage and sordid visual images, stench from a nearby factory, and the like.
For urban radar systems, removal of clutter and stationary targets via change detection or exploitation of sparsity in the Doppler domain readily enables the application of CS techniques for moving target detection inside buildings [20 23].
The newsroom in those days was a smoky, cluttered gallery of urban oddballs.
For this exercise, factors such as clutter, noise floor and urban topology are ignored or included in the fade margin.
In practical terms, this has meant removing excessive signage that clutters and spoils our urban landscapes, removing or not installing railings that dictate designated crossing points and removing kerbs to leave a level surface between pedestrians and motor traffic.
For other clutter categories, we assume most measurements in dense urban areas (30%), followed by urban areas (25%), urban areas without buildings, i.e. mostly roads, (20%), sub-urban areas (10%), dry open land areas without special vegetation (7%), agricultural areas (5%), and forestall areas (3%).
Determined to create an emergency plan for her family — she has a 5-year-old daughter with the co-founder of Urban Angler — Ms. Hooper had found the Internet cluttered with a mess of contradictory information.
