Sentences with phrase «as urban sprawl»

Good teachers are in high demand at this time and as urban sprawl continues there will continue to be a need for all certified teachers.

We'll also keep close tabs on the 905 regions: They have the same stake in becoming green, and some major issues, such as urban sprawl and transit, can't be resolved without them.

Zhang's study doesn't support that the temperature would necessarily go up as urban sprawl overtakes a temperature station.

However, as the urban sprawl expands, eventually the weather station begins to be affected by the expanding urban heat island (1950 - 1980).

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.

Not exact matches

«There is some truth to that, because [in] Toronto for example, there is limitation as to where you can build low rise construction,» he said, referring to green belt policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl.

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

During Hurricane Harvey, we saw how a city's layout can worsen the effects of a storm, as Houston's urban sprawl and scant zoning likely set the stage for catastrophic flooding.

With new «density» targets favouring multi-family housing, designated urban growth areas and tougher environmental rules, the 2006 plan sought to check urban sprawl while supporting the area's further growth as North America's major economic hub.

But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).

And can we learn once again to be happy in traditional towns and cities — not only as a moral antidote to individualism, inequality and the misuse of environmental resources, and not only as an aesthetic antidote to suburban sprawl, but also for the sake of the genuine goods and pleasures (including both communal belonging and individual freedom) of traditional urban life?

Winemaking's Urban Sprawl During their education as winemakers, Laurie Lewis and Renee Neely had a key realization — they didn't actually want to operate a vineyard...

In the most recent elections cycle, the «Preserve» parties have given Rockland voters a chance to vote for candidates favoring controlled growth as opposed to the proliferation of unchecked urban sprawl that one finds in some parts of Ramapo.

NEON will monitor how large - scale problems such as climate change, pollution and urban sprawl affect ecosystems as diverse as the Great Lakes and Hawaii.

If everything goes according to plan, data from the US probe will help researchers track large natural sources and sinks of CO2, such as oceans and forests, and perhaps some manmade sources, such as sprawling urban areas or even large power plants.

In Southern Ontario, 72 per cent of the original wetlands have been lost to development such as agriculture and urban sprawl.

Others hope that it will also allow OCO - 2 to go beyond large natural sources and sinks, such as oceans and forests, to detect CO2 emanating from sprawling urban areas or even large power plants.

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.

«A complicating factor here, as has been observed many times over the past few years, is urban sprawl gradually engulfing chemical plants.

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.

This vibrant urban sprawl, inspired by the colorful buildings of the real - life city of Guanajuato, is as marvelously imagined as the cerebral landscape of Inside Out or Monsters Inc.'s bustling Monstropolis, another densely packed world of wonders that's both familiar — there's a scene about skeleton bureaucracy that kills, I swear — and otherworldly.

In Dishonoured 2, this is even more so as the sprawling urban, steam - punk environments of Dunwall and Karnaca (both offering multiple routes to targets and different ways of accomplishing objectives), the expanded arsenal of lethal and non-lethal weaponry and gadgets, and the insane supernatural powers you character is capable of, all compound to cater to playstyles of all different types.

Featuring plenty of eye catching tourist attractions surrounded by the urban sprawl of a community on the decline, Dafoe spends his days desperately trying to keep his business as the manager of a rundown motel above water.

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.

The Mazda MINAGI is a compact crossover SUV concept that combines Mazda's SKYACTIV technologies — which represent the harmony between driving pleasure and outstanding environmental and safety performance — with emotional KODO design that communicates pent - up energy bursting with vitality as the vehicle nimbly navigates a sprawling urban cityscape.

It's this urban, sprawling, huge landscape that is as terrifying as a medieval forest would have been.»

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

Urban sprawl also gives rise to a host of other socio - economic issues, as illustrated by this infographic created by Jack Dylan of Point Blank Creative for Sustainable Prosperity.

Tikal's sprawling urban site contains some of the most impressive Mayan palace, temple, and altar structures - many housing the ancient tombs of kings and important political figures of the time, as well as elaborately carved wooden door lintels and stelae (carved stone shafts).

In order to stop LEGION and take back the world, the Agents of Mayhem will traverse a sprawling urban battlefield from the ground to the rooftops and team up as a super-agent collective to stop LEGION at any cost.

Dean Byington's work references religious conflict and terrorism in the Middle East and Western Europe alongside the damage wrought by human processes such as climate change and urban sprawl into previously uninhabited regions.

Switching out the grand Western vistas of Watkins, O'Sullivan and Adams for urban sprawl and endless concrete, photographers began to radically redefine landscape just as Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour did for architecture in Learning from Las Vegas in 1972.

In this sense, Multiplicity strives to present images and ideas as different and distinct as the urban contexts that originally inspired them, embodying the internal contradictions and boundless potential of small and large, young and old, meticulously planned and chaotically sprawling cities worldwide.

This group exhibition Building & Rebuilding addresses the effects of the rapidly - changing landscape in our urban surroundings as a result of sprawl, evident by endless demolitions, empty lots and new high - rises.

With me piloting the car, Joel as navigator and Zoë keeping up a lively banter of good cheer in the midst of occasional wrong turns, we traverse the 502 square miles of urban sprawl in search of challenging new art in studios, galleries, museums and private residences.

For our December issue, fellowship recipient Victoria Camblin wrote on the work of architect and real estate developer John Portman as a touchstone that artists react to as they intervene in Atlanta's urban sprawl.

As a keen survey of history, her photographs of St. Louis, Missouri, address the contrast between the city's aspirations for urban development once envisioned in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and the realization of urban sprawl that has since displaced the downtown area.

«Those are some good drinking songs,» the painter Valton Tyler observes, referring to some of country music's classic, she - broke - my - heart, my - baby - left - me weepers that come streaming through his radio as he barrels down a six - lane highway amidst the urban sprawl of Garland, Texas.

Since then, the land art genre has been subsumed under the more general term «environmental art,» which has broadened to include the global community, microscopic worlds, cyber space and suburban sprawl, as well as wilderness and the urban environment.

Urban sprawl and use of increased heat producing devices close to met stations is a slow, on - going process, and I doubt if it would be easily seen as a spike in the records of that station.

As cities generate over 75 % of the world wealth, attracting more people and conducing to urban sprawl, infrastructure and planning are key to reaching greener cities in order to alleviate the effects of climate change and provide a clean environment to their citizens.

As I have documented before Parmesan has «inaccurately» blamed CO2 warming for extinctions due to lost habitat from urban sprawl, hijacked conservation success to argue poleward movement of butterflies was caused by climate change, and blamed CO2 and extreme weather for a population extinction caused by logging while neighboring natural populations thrived.

We use technology to identify and monitor threats to the planet's natural resources such as offshore drilling and oil spills, urban sprawl, fracking, mountaintop removal mining, and overfishing of the oceans.

As a resident in the Southwest, an area marred by both intensive agriculture and urban sprawl, it seems the answer is much more simple.

Impervious surfaces such as roads, parking lots, and roofs associated with sprawling urban development significantly change natural river flow patterns and the recharge of underground water supplies.

If urban sprawl just brings more commuting and therefore transportation and air pollution issues, not to mention eating up usable greenspace with more houses and big box stores, then the question comes as to how to construct new comes in a city that is already developed?

Which is why a new piece in Yale Environment 360 on efforts to rein in urban sprawl in Europe caught my eye: After going through a brief overview of the rise of new urbanism in Europe as a response to American - style suburban development and Corbusier - inspired high - rise housing blocks, author Bruce Stutz brings up an important observation about the character of EU sprawl: It has happened during a period of declining populations.

Highlights Developed EPA presentation to help companies prevent violations Conducted legal research on Virginia environmental issues Assistance with depositions and discovery Classes on issues such as impact of pesticides, air pollution, urban sprawl, food safety, water safety Sitting for [month, year] Virginia Bar Examination Excellent research and analytical skills Well - rounded communicator and collaborator Experience Legal Research Intern 6/1/2015 — 8/1/2015 Virginia Attorney General's Office — Richmond, VA Researched case law to help attorneys with depositions and discovery.

As for the challenges Realtors face in the St. John's market, Williams and Hollett say that growth in St. John's has lead to urban sprawl.

During his two years as top official for the county, which encompasses the high - growth Orlando area, he appointed a task force to look at sprawl and urban redevelopment issues and another to look at affordable housing issues.