Sentence examples for urban intervention from inspiring English sources

Its new plan, though, is its largest, boldest and – by far – costliest urban intervention yet.

The large-scale, comprehensive master plan gave way to the concept of the individual building as an urban intervention.

Gates was trained as a potter, but his artistic practice includes, among many things, sculpture, musical performance, installation and something that has been called large-scale urban intervention.

For its part, Go Ape is giving 1,000 free tickets a year to local schools while planning its next urban intervention – a course near Alexandra Palace it hopes to open this summer.

It appears to be the philosopher's stone or holy grail of contemporary urban intervention, which is to do something as phenomenally successful as New York's High Line, one of whose virtues is uniqueness, without looking too much like the High Line.

Part art installation, part crowdsourced sculpture, part urban intervention, the success of the Collectivity Project was a sign, perhaps, of our desire to become more involved in imagining the possibilities for our cities, even if our bricks-and-plastic creations will eventually be taken apart and packed up in a box.

For instance, routes to a school might "prime" children for learning through playful urban interventions that arouse curiosity.

The man who normally gets the credit for unleashing this sequence of urban interventions is, again, a mayor.

Increasingly, the dreams of urban prosperity through competition have served to legitimate hugely costly – and publicly subsidised – spatial urban interventions in prestige redevelopment.

The city's planners began addressing its endemic violence and inequity through the design of public spaces, transit infrastructure and urban interventions into the slums.

Remarkably, he managed to fashion a kind of circular economy whereby his urban interventions were being financed by the sale of artworks created from the materials salvaged from the interventions.