Sentences with phrase «by urban expansion»

I problem I have is that some of the few sites still classed as «good» may also be affected by urban expansion in the general vicinity.

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This incredible journey was made possible by a massive population shift from rural to urban, which in turn was facilitated by the unprecedented expansion in manufacturing and international trade in China, a country that steadfastly ignored the entire MDG process.

The company also just announced the expansion of Uber Movement, a program intended to benefit urban planners and fueled by aggregated (and anonymized) Uber ride data, covering how different times and travel times can be impacted by major events and road closures.

To justify the self - storage expansion, many industry insiders begin by citing urban growth, as well as the ascendancy of condo living, which discourages clutter, and higher rents.

The study into the impact of urban greenery on asthma suggests that respiratory health can be improved by the expansion of tree cover in very polluted urban neighbourhoods.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

To arrive at their results, researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison calculated the difference in size of urban areas, from 2000 to 2010, by closely scrutinizing maps of urban extent and urban expansion developed from MODIS 250m satellite data.

By explicitly measuring the urban density (persons per kilometre) change for each agglomeration, the researchers showed that, contrary to previous findings, urban growth has outpaced land expansion.

The MCC study, entitled «Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands» and authored by Christopher Bren d'Amour and Felix Creutzig...

The story of Syracuse is familiar: misguided attempts at urban renewal in the 1960s, destruction of old neighborhoods by interstate highways penetrating the city center, expansion of suburbs facilitated by federally funded highways and tax benefits for new housing; movement of many industrial facilities to the South; and redlining of old city neighborhoods so they could not get necessary mortgages and insurance for home purchase, rehabilitation, and maintenance.

And turnaround schools, both in Chicago and in other urban districts like Philadelphia, are experiencing significant enrollment loss — driven largely by the rapid expansion of charter high schools — that in some ways hinders improvement.

«The bottom line is clear: Large - scale expansion of parental choice and competition will not, by itself, solve the problems of the most distressed urban schools.»

A huge 32 - by -18-foot LED screen has been positioned on the northern facade of the expansion with the aim to ideally and visually connect BAMPFA with the urban space around, and to create a small public outdoor cinema.

For the Drawing Center's more modest expansion, designed by Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture & Urban Design, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation gave a $ 3 million grant, its largest contribution toward a single construction project in the arts and culture realm other than the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

«Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces,» site - specific installation blending digital technology, virtual reality, urban and suburban growth and global expansion by artists including Ricci Albenda, Nina Bovasso, Victoria Haven, Stephen Hendee, Julie Mehretu, Adam Ross and Shirley Tse.

Bike Share Leaders Motivate and 8D Technologies Announce Merger to Wed Best - in - class Technology with Operations Merger Sets Path for Ten-Fold Expansion of Bay Area's Ford GoBike, Accelerated Innovation in Bike Share Facilitated by a Substantial Investment by Generation Investment Management Investment recognizes bike share's potential to protect climate, enhance urban sustainability NEW YORK — Motivate -LSB-...]

This proposes expansion of the CDM's Programme of Activities approach to enable aggregation of city - based GHG mitigation reductions broadly covered by five sectors: energy, transport, solid waste, water and wastewater, and urban forestry.

Finally, there's our vulnerability to heavy rainfall events, in this case exacerbated by the city's rapid expansion that has paved over former grasslands, overloaded critical infrastructure, challenged urban planning, and limited evacuation routes.

Via kind tipster Jamie Woolley and an article on Greenpeace More on Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % Amazon Deforestation Grows in August, Brazil Says Could Stop in 2015 Amazon Condoms To Preserve Forests and Reduce Imports in Brazil Brazil to Develop Satellite to Monitor Deforestation, Urban Expansion Brazilian Banks, Forbidden to Give Loans to Illegal Loggers

A rise in the number of reported floods in the UK over the past 129 years can be related to increased exposure, resulting from urban expansion and population growth, according to new research by the University of Southampton.

Ontario's Urban Intensification Act appears to be colliding head on with the Greenbelt expansion plans by intensifying growth near the greenbelt areas and at the same time shrinking available land.

With the company's goal to develop and acquire properties with a market value exceeding $ 4 billion by 2020, Milhaus identified the Carolinas as an extremely desirable market for expansion due to the region's strong job growth and high demand for multifamily and mixed - use properties in urban neighborhoods.