Sentences with phrase «as urban land»

He has been a keynote speaker for national real estate organizations such as the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Formal acceptance of urban agriculture as an urban land use and its integration into urban development and land use plans is a crucial step towards effective regulation and facilitation of the development of urban agriculture.

As urban land becomes scarcer and more expensive, buildings and spaces previously overlooked are being recycled for housing.

Not exact matches

As urban sprawl encroaches on the world's arable land, and environmental disasters send food prices soaring, innovators are seeking to take agriculture off the farm.

Problem is, land - use restrictions are usually enacted for valid reasons such as protecting the environment, reducing urban sprawl and preserving agricultural land.

Despite Swann's success, the idea didn't really take off in urban areas in America until the 1980s, when rapidly increasing real - estate prices began shutting many out of homeownership, according to Reinventing Real Estate: The Community Land Trust as A Social Invention in Affordable Housing, by James Meehan.

I think one way to mitigate the pain for exurban areas in to put in place a land value tax as well, which would also tend to hit the urban hippies harder than the suburban middle class.

Land buyers have focused primarily on well - connected urban sites as developers and investors seek opportunities for house price growth beyond London.

The reasons Melville should have hated New York have led many readers to imagine that he did in fact undertake an assault upon urban life in his land - based novels, Pierre (1852) and Israel Potter (1855), and such stories as «Bartleby, the Scrivener» (1853).

A pope, Urban II, did give impetus to the Crusades, and though the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem came to an end eight hundred years ago, the evidence of a century of Crusader rule is visible in the commanding castles and European - style churches that still rise from the arid landscape, as well as the longstanding bonds between Middle Eastern and Western Christians, especially in Lebanon and the Holy Land.

Myself and many others were pleased to see that food localisation was widely seen as an obvious and necessary pathway forward, with strategic land use planning — urban and peri-urban agriculture, community gardens, edible streetscapes and so on — identified as an urgent priority for all local and state governments in the coming years.

A graduate assistant on Urban Meyer's Bowling Green teams, he ended up catching a big break by landing on Jim Harbaugh's Stanford staff (as defensive ends coach and special teams coordinator) in 2007.

Trailside also serves as the visitor center to the Blue Hills, the state's largest swath of protected land in a suburban / urban setting.

Her art sells worldwide and can be found in her own online boutique as well as select galleries and shops including Urban Outfitters, Land of Nod, Target and Papyrus.

The Paterson administration said linking the parks measure with the EPF — which pays for initiatives such as buying land for preservation, plus water cleanup efforts, urban forestry and recycling — was the only way to realize the savings needed to help balance the $ 9.2 billion deficit.

I included the creation of land banks in my urban agenda as a way to help transform our struggling urban communities.

On March 28, 2014, the Board of Directors for the New York State Urban Development Corporation, doing business as Empire State Development («ESD»), accepted the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement («the DSEIS»), adopted an amendment to the Modified General Project Plan («the Proposed Amendment»), and authorized a Public Hearing in connection with the Atlantic Yards Land Use Improvement and Civic Project.

Syracuse's land bank was one of five established earlier this year under a new state law as a tool to deal with vacant and tax delinquent properties in urban areas.

Often referred to as «slum clearing,» urban renewal programs helped developers buy up land that often housed working class families and demolish their homes to rebuild newer, more expensive developments.

Such municipalities are much better equipped to employ newer and more sophisticated planning instruments, such as special land use plans with urban planning requirements.

In a study published in October 2009 in the Journal of Mammalogy, Gehrt watched the movement of 181 radio - collared coyotes and noted their preference for natural lands within urban and suburban spaces, such as city parks and residential yards.

Mexico suffers from general land degradation as well as from urban congestion and air pollution.

The locations of weather stations, changes in instruments, the siting of weather stations in warmer urban areas, changes in land cover and other issues have all been cited as issues affecting the temperature trends often used to show that our planet is in fact warming.

In Sarianidi's view, this harsh land of desert, marsh, and steppe may instead have served as a center in a broad, early trading network, the hub of a wheel connecting goods, ideas, and technologies among the earliest of urban peoples.

An urban area, or urban agglomeration, was defined as a built - up area of a central city and any suburbs or small cities that were linked together by continuous urban land.

The second was Compact Development, based on possible land use distribution in the region if authorities had implemented growth management and land conservation policies, such as density incentives and urban growth boundaries.

Using maps dating as far back as 1833, the researchers modeled the urban sprawl process as Groane developed from agricultural land into a residential and industrial area, and then into a postindustrial suburb of the Milanese metropolis.

Short - sighted economic gains such as land grabbing, unplanned urban sprawl, unsustainable agriculture and over-consumption lead to unsustainable land use, which eventually causes degradation and loss of critical ecosystem services.

In any case, there's been a surprisingly large number of people that have (incorrectly) interpreted the figure in Dr. Urban's interview as just meaning a higher land sensitivity than ocean sensitivity.

To his credit, Nathan Urban flagged the land - ocean mismatch as one of the caveats in the study indicating all is not right.

As the drought continued, farmers and their families abandoned their land and headed to urban areas for work.

The First Crusade (1095 — 1099) was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Land, called for by Pope Urban II at the Council The Brotherhood Crusade introduced the Brotherhood Crusade Youth Development Program in September of 2007 as a comprehensive, well - coordinated evidence

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As the land is changed by the growing nature of urban development, the lives of the Aborigines change over time.

«As a teacher who educates students who have not been outside of an urban area, I believe it would by highly beneficial for them to see the ongoing close relationship that Central Australia's Indigenous people have with the land,» explained David.

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

Like equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to help poor, primarily urban districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schools.

But bigger trucks, such as the Ford Excursion and Chevrolet Suburban sport - utility models, require parking lanes nearly 10 feet wide; and that's putting the squeeze on the availability of space for smaller vehicles, according to The Dimensions of Parking, an Urban Land Institute publication.

If you're looking for fancy urban SUVs, be advised: the Land Cruiser is not one of those models, as it can still face rough off - road courses without even blinking, thanks to its four - wheel drive system and features like hill start and hill descend control.

For example, a top level category such as ARCHITECTURE has 38 subcategories; from Adaptive Reuse & Renovation, to Buildings, to Urban & Land Use Planning.

Optimized for viewing on a tablet - sized screen, the app has catalogs from such companies as Anthropologie, Bare Escentuals, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale's, Crate and Barrel, L.L. Bean, Lands» End, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Pottery Barn, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sephora, Sundance Catalog, Tea Collection, Urban Outfitters and Williams - Sonoma.

«Land here is cheap and, as a result, we've suffered from urban sprawl,» explains Christian Gannon, a veteran Re / Max Realtor.

James Shilling, Ph.D., another panelist and the Professor of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison said «The ability to refinance for lower interest rates is an important element of the U.S. system as it allows consumers to take equity out of their home and put it back into the economy.»

Massimi liano Gioni, 41, artistic director of the New Museum, as well as the director of the Trussardi Foundation, calls it «one of the most powerful urban interventions in the history of land art.»

Some of his projects include opening a restaurant (Food, 1971) in the then - neglected district of SoHo in New York, purchasing at auction fractions of unusable urban land in New York (Reality Properties: Fake Estates, 1973), dispensing oxygen to passersby in the streets of New York from a self - made cart (Fresh Air Cart, 1972), and other visionary urban projects that he conceived as a founding member of the New York - based Anarchitecture group.

The Los Angeles — based artist selected locations in the San Francisco Bay Area that are emblematic of distinct urban - redevelopment episodes: Islais Landing, a former tidal bog that once served as a sewage channel and slaughterhouse dumping ground; San Francisco City Hall, a Beaux Arts monument whose harmonious proportions and massive domed rotunda are meant to pique municipal pride (and good civic behavior); and Pacific Shores Center, a 106 - acre, 1.7 - millionsquare - foot corporate complex, planned during the dot - com glut of the late 1990s and built on marshland south of the city.

Sourcing from architecture, mapping, and topographic views of urban land, Fraser found a linear, grid - like visual vocabulary which he defines as, not abstract, but «reductive».

This body of work is certainly in keeping with Ward's many previous pieces, that are often playful sculptures made from urban findings, such as his awkwardly piled collection of disused prams in Amazing Grace, or the delicately arranged collection of disparate wheels in Land and Landings.

For this exhibition, which contains a section on each of the original themes, Rosler has subsumed herself under the name Temporary Office for Urban Disturbances to collaborate with scores of groups — such as 596 Acres, Inc., Center for Urban Pedagogy, New York City Community Land Initiative — and individuals, including LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gregory Sholette, and Robbie Conal.

Garcetti said that a recent conversation with Michael Govan, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art director who has festooned the campus with a couple of buzzed - about outdoor landmarks, Chris Burden's «Urban Light» sculptural array of old - fashioned street lights and Michael Heizer's 340 - ton land art boulder, «Levitated Mass,» got him wondering why L.A. doesn't have «the equivalent of the Statue of Liberty as a greeting at the entry of the Port of Los Angeles, welcoming 43 % of the goods that come into America.»