Sentence examples for urban interventions from inspiring English sources

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.

Their collective "urban interventions in public space" occupied the public gardens around Frere Hall, a 19th-century city hall built by the British and preserved as part of Karachi's colonial history in downtown Saddar, heart of the old city.

The 1991 constitution decided that the EPM would contribute 30% of its profit to the city for municipal use – a crucial source of funding that subsequent mayors have been able to use to power their urban interventions.

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.

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.

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.