Hints and tips:
...While the board, whose members serve four-year terms, will not have authority over Disney’s operation of its parks, they could use their approval power for crucial infrastructure projects as leverage over...
...After Disney’s statement DeSantis moved to take over the powerful Disney-controlled board that oversaw zoning, mosquito control and other governmental affairs in the area around the park....
...The volte-face came after powerful protests shook Van following Sunday’s municipal elections, in which the AKP endured its worst defeat since it was co-founded by Erdoğan more than 20 years ago....
...“Scattered around the city core are undeveloped sites considered ‘unbuildable’, most often because of jurisdictionally imposed restraints such as zoning, zoning setbacks and riparian stream buffers,” says...
...“There is little evidence that Beijing has the policies to achieve the growth target it has declared,” the Financial Times editorial board summed up....
...The concept has its roots in the new urbanism in the US that brought forth the likes of the planned (some might say toy town) communities of Seaside and Celebration in Florida....
...Converted from a 1930s waterfront grain silo, it will house not just works from the collection of the city’s former municipal gallery but also that of Nicolai Tangen, chief executive of Norges Bank Investment...
...If there are people who realised, ‘Actually we preferred going to [the UK seaside town of] Mablethorpe rather than the Costa del Sol’, that takes time to filter through.”...
...A taxi carries dozens more people than a private car, and rarely needs to park. Delivery trucks, too, eat up unnecessary amounts of urban space, argues Parisian municipal official Antoine Guillou....
...On my third day living here, I broke my leg walking up Arthur’s Seat – the extinct volcano in Holyrood Park....
...But Rechler, who is also a board member of the New York Federal Reserve, is expecting a rough stretch in the months ahead....
...They would eventually justify investments in public parks, wider sidewalks and other improvements....
...Similar fears surround the fate of its nearly $1bn in municipal debt, which was placed on rating watch negative by Fitch after the law was signed....
...To accompany it, I order the indie-cheese board (€18), an umami-tastic variety that might have been better paired with a red....
...We park near a dirt track, which leads up to an old barn, water station and a changeover point for the relay teams....
...Graham Peters, co-chair of the Hastings Town Deal board, says the car park at Etchingham station, in a village en route to London, is now only a third or half-full most days....
...The hall, otherwise, is simultaneously as architecturally underwhelming as a municipal car park and radiant with history and loveliness. It has a disorienting effect....
...The year before the pandemic, my family and I spent a fortnight just outside Cadaqués, a whitewashed seaside town backed by a wild national park on the easternmost point of mainland Spain, where Salvador...
...Feel-good bonus: the owners are a year into a fundraising partnership with the Elephant Nature Park rescue-rehabilitation sanctuary, which has to date generated almost $45,000 in support, mostly in donations...
...Vela’s journeys, which can also take in Sebayur – just outside the actual national park – look promising....
...Then she says something else: “We want everyone to know, everything is above board, everything is transparent.” I hadn’t suggested that anything was below board. In fact, I hadn’t said much at all....
...Italy holds municipal elections....
...SynVillan, from £438 per night half-board; welcomebeyond.com. Niris, POA (including chef); scottwilliams.co.uk @mariashollenbarger...
...There was a brief stint as a portfolio-career board member of multiple companies, when suddenly she was tapped for the top job at Aviva....
...Fragments of this vision survive in many places, but just as zoning the city — separating out living, working, leisure and commerce — proved deadly to everyday life, so the apartheid of traffic and people...
International Edition