A Serious Innovative Attempt to Merge Urban & Project Management
Inevitably; Urbanism has to accept complemented endeavors from Project Management, as rival is making it tangible achievement of Mankind.. Without Project Management, Urbanism will have no implementations or applications to verify.. Without Urbanism; Project Management will have no purpose to deliver.. Therefore, Urban Projectization is an attempt to merge both knowledge domain and enhance the... Continue Reading →
Unlike many cities, the French capital has made good on its promise to re-open urban waterways to bathers. How did they do it? We’ve all heard promises from cities to make their once-fetid urban waterways swimmable—probably too many. Boston has been pledging to extend the Charles River’s swimmable days for years now, while Berlin’s beautiful plans to... Continue Reading →
This represents a surprising shift for Germany. Germany is a global leader in wind and solar power, but air pollution throughout the country has gotten so bad that the European Union just threatened the country with massive fines if the life-threatening situation wasn’t rapidly addressed, according to the Independent. Rather than fight the decree, the German... Continue Reading →
Major water shortages throughout the summer months in India's capital have led to fighting - in which 3 people died. In this picture residents are peacefully filling their containers with drinking water from a municipal tanker but the situation is dire: By 2020, New Delhi will run out of groundwater.
Bassam Samman All project management best practices introduce breakdown structures as a proven technique to decompose the project into smaller components that can be managed, monitored, controlled and reported on. Those breakdown structures include Work Breakdown Structure, Organization Breakdown Structure, Cost Breakdown Structure, Location Breakdown Structure, Document Breakdown Structure and Risk Breakdown Structure among others.... Continue Reading →
Bassam Samman The Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS) is the organization chart that will set the roles and responsibilities for the project team in delivering the project’s scope of work. Those could include the project schedule activities as well as the many different project management processes needed to manage the project delivery. When a WBS package... Continue Reading →
Arian Horbovetz is a Strong Towns member who writes for The Urban Phoenix. The following story is republished from his blog with permission. It’s interesting how the same topics in various trends become talking points simultaneously. Recently I’ve been inundated with requests to try to define the term “urbanist.” “What the Hell is an urbanist?”... Continue Reading →
