The Initiative on Cities (IOC or IoC) is an interdisciplinary center at Boston University. It serves as a hub for urban research and experiential learning...
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Cool Cities Initiative began as an initiative started by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to spur growth and investment in Midwestern cities. The Initiative...
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The Nuclear Cities Initiative is an initiative which purports to support the now struggling community and structures of post-USSR nuclear research, aimed...
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The Regional Cities Initiative is a program within Indiana counties that aims to attract talent through quality-of-place initiatives and improve skilled...
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C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is a group of 96 cities around the world that represents one twelfth of the world's population and one quarter of...
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The Safer Cities Initiative is an initiative to reduce crime in Skid Row, Los Angeles. While the initiative prominently resulted in heightened police...
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The Dharma Initiative, also written DHARMA (Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications), is a fictional research project and organization...
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urbanist, author, and scholar-activist. She is the Director of the Initiative on Cities and professor of sociology at Boston University. Prior to moving...
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The Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) is a project of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Founded by Earth Institute director Professor Jeffrey...
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proposed a citizen diplomacy initiative. Sister Cities International (SCI) was originally a program of the National League of Cities, but it became a separate...
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deployment, especially in the US military Initiative on Cities, urban research institute at Boston University Initiatives of Change, international organisation...
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Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) is a multi-donor trust fund managed by the Asian Development Bank. On February 5–6, 2007, more than 190...
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Thomas Menino (category People appearing on C-SPAN)
University. He also served as co-founder and co-director of the Initiative on Cities, an urban leadership research center based at Boston University....
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Mortal Engines Quartet (redirect from Orbital Defence INitiative)
The Mortal Engines Quartet (Hungry City Chronicles in the United States), also known as the Predator Cities Quartet, is a series of epic young adult science...
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university created the Initiative on Cities, with the former Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino as a founding co-director. The IOC focuses on engaging urban leaders...
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of one million trees. Cities that are known to be currently involved in this initiative are: Los Angeles, Denver, New York City, Shanghai, London, Ontario...
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The Century Initiative is a Canadian lobby group that aims to increase Canada's population to 100 million by 2100. This includes increasing the population...
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Initiative 83 is a proposed ballot initiative in Washington, D.C., that would permit ranked-choice voting and open the primary elections to independent...
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The following is a list of cities that have implemented smart city initiatives, organized by continent and then alphabetically. The Institute for Management...
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Direct democracy (redirect from Initiative and referenda)
democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies. This differs from the...
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The Arab Peace Initiative (Arabic: مبادرة السلام العربية; Hebrew: יוזמת השלום הערבית), also known as the Saudi Initiative (Arabic: مبادرة السعودية; Hebrew:...
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People's initiative (or "PI") is a common appellative in the Philippines that refers to either a mode for constitutional amendment provided by the 1987...
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R), known in China as the One Belt One Road and sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, is a global infrastructure...
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The China Initiative was a program by the United States Department of Justice to prosecute perceived Chinese spies in American research and industry, in...
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Utrecht (redirect from Utrecht (Dutch city))
private initiatives. The city council provides coupons for discounts to inhabitants who receive welfare to be used with many of the initiatives. In 2017...
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permit. An example of international cooperation in these cities is the Nuclear Cities Initiative (NCI), a joint effort of the United States National Nuclear...
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Reproductive Freedom Initiative, is a proposed constitutional amendment that will appear on the ballot on November 5, 2024. If passed, the initiative would amend...
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popular initiative (also citizens' initiative) is a form of direct democracy by which a petition meeting certain hurdles can force a legal procedure on a proposition...
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has media related to Smart cities. British Standards Institute initiative on Smart Cities Future of Cities UK government 'Foresight' project on cities...
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Skid Row, Los Angeles (redirect from Central City East, Los Angeles, California)
First Year of the Safer Cities Initiative on Skid Row (PDF). OCLC 187332352. NCJ 237249. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2013. "Los Angeles...
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