Urban heat islands tend to exacerbate elevated temperatures and are largely determined
by urban land use and human - caused heat emissions.
There are substantial wetland and forested areas along the creek corridor in the northern watershed, while the southern watershed is characterized
by urban land use.
Not exact matches
To put the figures into perspective, even if England's
urban areas were expanded
by ten per cent, this could be achieved
by only
using less than one per cent of the total
land mass.
Because prime farmland was taken
by industry and
urban uses, the Mohawk started farming
lands more «erodible, droughty and less productive,» according to the report.
The study, supported
by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NSF), found that most of the coastal communities do not have an overarching strategy for building
urban disaster resilience and lack coordination between multiple
urban systems, including
land use activities, natural environments and public infrastructure investments, particularly in Texas.
LessEn was created
by the
Urban Land Institute, a non-profit research and education organisation, representing the entire spectrum of land use and real estate development discipli
Land Institute, a non-profit research and education organisation, representing the entire spectrum of
land use and real estate development discipli
land use and real estate development disciplines.
Major transit investments contribute to the livability of communities
by reducing air pollution, offering additional travel capacity during periods of congestion (including peak commuting hours), and promoting compact
urban land use patterns that reduce energy
use.
Investment in transit infrastructure also contributes to the livability of our cities and communities
by reducing air pollution, reducing congestion (during peak commuting periods) and promoting
urban land use patterns (that reduce energy
use).
Urban Biologist Danielle Lee,
by Kari Cornell, introduces an African American scientist who now works with a research team that is breeding African giant pouched rats that can be
used to sniff out
land mines.
As part of these processes, specific attention is given to
land use mapping and the integration of
urban agriculture into
urban land use planning and neighbourhood design or upgrading, as showcased
by the project Making the Edible Landscape: integrating
urban agriculture into
urban development and design.
As part of these processes, specific attention is given to
land use mapping and the integration of
urban agriculture into
urban land use planning and neighbourhood design or upgrading, as showcased
by the project
California also provides an interesting case study because of its topographic complexity, extensive
urban and agricultural
land use, and Mediterranean climate characterized
by distinctive rainfall and temperature patterns.
Various cities, like Havana (Cuba), Cagayan de Oro (the Philippines), Cape Town (South Africa), Lima (Peru), Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) and Governador Valadares (Brazil) have formulated a City Ordinance that regulates the (temporal)
use of vacant municipal
land by organised groups of
urban producers.
The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied
by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri)
urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural
land areas and watersheds through
land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.
The incorporation of climate change adaptation into each
urban centre's development planning, infrastructure investments and
land -
use management is well served
by an iterative process within each locality of learning about changing risks and uncertainties that informs an assessment of policy options and decisions.
Based on a study from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, we estimate that
using forest and
urban wood waste, as well as some perennial crops such as switchgrass and fast - growing trees on nonagricultural
land, the United States could develop more than 40 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity
by 2020, roughly four times the current level.
The sharing and discussions at the conference were organised around the following six thematic discussion papers prepared
by international experts: 1: Methodologies for Situation Analysis in
Urban Agriculture; 2: Appropriate Methodologies for Developing a Facilitating Policy and Planning Framework in Urban Agriculture; 3: Technical Tools for Urban Land Use Planning; 4: Appropriate methods for technology development in urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agricu
Urban Agriculture; 2: Appropriate Methodologies for Developing a Facilitating Policy and Planning Framework in
Urban Agriculture; 3: Technical Tools for Urban Land Use Planning; 4: Appropriate methods for technology development in urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agricu
Urban Agriculture; 3: Technical Tools for
Urban Land Use Planning; 4: Appropriate methods for technology development in urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agricu
Urban Land Use Planning; 4: Appropriate methods for technology development in
urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agricu
urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to
urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agricu
urban and peri-
urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agricu
urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in
Urban Agricu
Urban Agriculture
It was authored
by Charlotte Wickham, Judith Curry, Don Groom, Robert Jacobsen, Richard Muller, Saul Perlmutter, Robert Rohde, Arthur Rosenfeld, and Jonathan Wurtele and is titled Influence of
Urban Heating on the Global Temperature
Land Average
Using Rural Sites Identified from MODIS Classifications.
One of the great challenges of the next two or three decades will be urbanizing the suburbs, or, to be more precise, to replace the «suburban sprawl» pattern of development characterized
by large lots, segregated
land uses and autocentric streets with a more traditional «
urban» pattern of small lots, some mixed -
use and walkable streets.
In the paper this result is reached
by taking also into account several possibilities including the fact that the volcano cooling is evidently overestimated in the GCMs, as we have seen above, and that part of the leftover warming from 1970 to 2000 could have still be due to other factors such as
urban heat island and
land use change.
But a recent study
by Purdue University in Indiana indicates that this growing
land -
use trend plays a role in heating up
urban areas and trapping water pollution.
Small, multifamily dwellings in walkable / bikeable cities broken up
by greenspace parks and trails would be a start for
urban design, whereas rural living is going to be much harder to pin down and encourage wise
land use, etc..
Julian Sendin, a Senior Researcher at Ndifuna Ukwazi — an activist organisation and law centre working to advance
urban land justice — says: «Inclusionary zoning is a basic intervention
used by top cities around the world to ensure that private developers build a fair amount of truly affordable housing in exchange for additional development rights.»
Suburban sidewalks need to go somewhere, concluded participants in a recent
land use forum hosted by the Urban Land Instit
land use forum hosted
by the
Urban Land Instit
Land Institute.
In Los Angeles, for example,
land for industrial developments — many of which are changing from industrial
use to residential mixed -
use — have averaged approximately $ 23 per sq. ft. at the beginning of 2014 and
by year «s end, asking prices were as high as $ 32 per sq. ft.. There has been and continues to be keen competition for every developable site, with the
urban core expanding into previously blighted areas.
The U.S. population is projected to grow
by 150 million within the next 40 years and «more compact, mixed -
use development» is needed to handle the growth and changing demands, Patrick Phillips, CEO for the
Urban Land Institute, told an audience at the National Association of Real Estate Editors annual conference this week.
In addition, issues such as
land and water
use planning, inter-municipal cooperation,
urban revitalization, and open space preservation are monitored
by the Alliance.
The new term, discussed
by a panel of experts at the recent
Urban Land Institute Annual Meeting in Chicago, refers to a cohesive design used to create more urban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connecti
Urban Land Institute Annual Meeting in Chicago, refers to a cohesive design
used to create more
urban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connecti
urban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connectivity.