For several months after graduating, Atta worked at the Urban Development Center in Cairo, where he worked on architectural, planning, and building design.

Urban planning ( urban, city, and town planning ) is a technical and political process concerned with the control of the use of land and design of the urban environment, including transportation networks, to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities.

Category: Urban design

Urban design is the process of designing and shaping cities, towns and villages.

Urban design is an inter-disciplinary subject that unites all the built environment professions, including urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, civil and municipal engineering.

Urban design demands a good understanding of a wide range of subjects from physical geography, through to social science, and an appreciation for disciplines, such as real estate development, urban economics, political economy and social theory.

Urban design is about making connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric.

Urban design draws together the many strands of place-making, environmental stewardship, social equity and economic viability into the creation of places with distinct beauty and identity.

Urban design is derived from but transcends planning and transportation policy, architectural design, development economics, engineering and landscape.

Urban design theory deals primarily with the design and management of public space ( i. e. the ' public environment ', ' public realm ' or ' public domain '), and the way public places are experienced and used.

Urban designers rarely have the degree of artistic liberty or control sometimes offered in design professions such as architecture.

Urban design may encompass the preparation of design guidelines and regulatory frameworks, or even legislation to control development, advertising, etc.

Urban design considers:

There are many examples of considered urban design in the Middle Ages ( see, e. g., David Friedman, Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages, MIT 1988 ).

There are clear indications of impact through Renaissance urban design on the thought of Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei ( see, e. g., Abraham Akkerman, " Urban planning in the founding of Cartesian thought ," Philosophy and Geography 4 ( 1 ), 2001 ).

Modern urban design can be considered as part of the wider discipline of Urban planning.

Indeed, Urban planning began as a movement primarily occupied with matters of urban design.

' Urban design ' was first used as a distinctive term when Harvard University hosted a series of Urban Design Conferences from 1956.

Category: Urban design

Scenic design was by Joseph Urban.

* Urban design, town and city squares, waterfronts, pedestrian schemes, and parking lots

Urban transport systems have been developed in Bogotá and Medellín.

Various armies and manufacturers have developed add-on tank armor and other systems for urban combat, such as the Tank Urban Survival Kit ( TUSK ) for M1 Abrams, slat armor for the Stryker, ERA kit for the FV432, AZUR for Leclerc, and others.

Urban transportation systems are being upgraded in Ashgabat, Dashhowuz, and Mary.

Urban or municipal infrastructure refers to hard infrastructure systems generally owned and operated by municipalities, such as streets, water distribution, and sewers.

Urban and suburban distribution is done with three-phase systems to serve both residential, commercial, and industrial loads.

#* Urban traffic control systems designed to recognise cyclists and give them priority.

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems replicate the natural systems that clean water in wildlife and implement them in a city ’ s drainage system so as to minimize contaminated water and unnatural rates of runoff into the environment.

Dr. Paige also established the university's Center for Excellence in Urban Education, a research facility that concentrates on issues related to instruction and management in urban school systems.

Urban sociology rose to prominence in the wake of the formation of the Chicago School during the 1920s, a field of sociology that combined sociological and anthropological theory with ethnographic fieldwork to understand how individuals interact within social systems.

Therefore the Leopard 2 PSO is equipped with more effective all-around protection, a secondary weapons station, improved reconnaissance ability, a bulldozer blade, a shorter gun barrel ( for maneuvering on urban streets at the expense of fire range ), non-lethal armament, close-range surveillance ability ( through camera systems ), a searchlight and further changes to improve its perseverance and mobility in a built-up non-wide open area, not too dissimilar to the Tank Urban Survival Kit for the American M1A2 Abrams.

Urban sprawl combined with higher fuel prices has caused an increase in popularity of these systems in recent years.

* Urban rail transit systems in different cities and metropolitan areas named:

Graft's biot torso can be disconnected at the hip and integrated into other robotic systems over which Graft has complete control, most commonly the Urban Combat Biot Walker, a ten-foot steel exoskeleton armed with lasers and claws.

Category: Urban people mover systems

In this, it was a model for the American Independent Network ( subsequently succeeded by the rather similar programming of Urban America Television ) and the somewhat more visible ION Television ( formerly PAX ), both of which also were largely seen around the United States on LPTV signals and on cable systems required to clear them.

Category: Urban people mover systems

The street furniture is different: in the earlier 20th century the tramway systems were different so Manchester Corporation Tramways designs were faced by those of Stretford Urban District.

Urban bus systems generally serve train and subway stations and often extend to the local airport.

Urban rail transit is an all-encompassing term for various types of local rail systems providing passenger service within and around urban or suburban areas.

A follow-on bill later in the decade provided additional funding for development of several experimental systems, and created the Urban Mass Transit Administration ( UMTA ).

The Urban Transportation Development Corporation, or UTDC as it was commonly known, was an Ontario, Canada, Crown corporation created in the 1970s as a way to enter what was then expected to be a burgeoning market in advanced light rail mass transit systems.