Sentences with phrase «by urban sprawl»

But what about some cities and small towns whose downtowns have been decimated by urban sprawl and large box stores and malls?

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The amount of land already consumed by urban sprawl would be enough land for small wind turbines and solar arrays in backyards, empty lots, tops / sides of buildings, not to mention all the empty land under power line corridors.

Urban areas are warmer than rural areas, and many weather stations around the world have become surrounded by urban sprawl since the Industrial Revolution.

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.

Hemmed in by urban sprawl and agricultural land, the tortoises can't up and move, either.

They found that large parts of Europe are affected by urban sprawl, with the lowest levels in Iceland and the highest in the Netherlands and Belgium.

The Deputy Prime Minister acknowledged that the green belt was being «eaten away» by urban sprawl and there was a need for the new planned cities rather than relying on further «piecemeal» developments.

His beautiful structures would soar into the air, releasing most of the land now covered by urban sprawl for agriculture, recreation, or wilderness.

Not exact matches

Another 15 percent or so is earmarked to pay other debts: student loans to get the education required for middle class employment, auto loans to drive to work (from the urban sprawl promoted by tax shifts favoring real estate «developers»), credit card debt, personal loans and retail credit.

SA's Liberal government will continue the planning reforms set in place by the previous Labor government to curb urban sprawl.

A larger road network with faster speed limits encourages urban sprawl by inducing people to move to suburbs more distant from their jobs, and, more generally, to be more likely to plan longer trips in their cars.

Few contest the need to check urban sprawl, so the main controversy surrounding the Green Belt is the extent to which it is being eroded by planning decisions.

We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag and whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look at the same night sky, and dream the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath by the same almighty creator (CONTRAST, RULE OF THREE, EXAGGERATION AND METAPHOR).

Those sky - climbing costs are mostly caused by people, not climate change, cautions Munich Reinsurance, which says urban sprawl and expanding development increase the number of targets for Mother Nature to damage.

But it is possible to slow the pace of urban sprawl by harnessing the full development potential of central areas, according to forecasts by Guillaume Marois, a recent Ph.D. from INRS who has developed a spatial microsimulation model called Local Demographic Simulations (LDS).

A statistical analysis of various available data sets for soil consumption and socio - economic development showed that urban sprawl and its impact on soil consumption can not be adequately explained by population growth alone.

Sunbelt cities like Los Angeles, Riverside, Calif., and Houston, with their seemingly endless sunny days, gridlocked urban sprawl and heat - trapping stagnant air masses, contain the highest average concentrations of ozone, according to a 2009 study by University of California, Berkeley scientists.

Travel 50 kilometers north and you will arrive in what by comparison is the urban sprawl of the Monterey Peninsula.

In a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by atmospheric scientists Logan Mitchell and John Lin report that suburban sprawl increases CO2 emissions more than similar population growth in a developed urban core.

Many species are threatened by logging, pollution and urban sprawl.

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.

This County Office of Education has approved more charters than any other county, by a factor of 2, in what their own white papers calls «Charter School Urban Sprawl».

Amongst the bad news is the spread of invasive species, chemical pollution, global warming, species decline, over-logging and urban sprawl (for example in 15 years Pennsylvania has increased its «urban footprint» by 47 % while its population has increased by only 2.5 %).

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.

These environments are invariably grim, rendered in mottled browns and municipal grey, the bleakness of the urban sprawl punctuated by pulsating neon signs and road - side hoardings that take inspiration from films like Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

SPRAWL Co-curated by former Houston Center for Contemporary Craft curatorial fellow Susie J. Silbert and former HCCC curator Anna Walker, SPRAWL explores the urban landscape with works by 16 artists presented in three thematic sections loosely based on the three phases of urban growth.

Some related reviews have looked at urban sprawl, museum archaeology, the High Line in photographs by Joel Sternfeld, Exit Art's «The Reconstruction,» «Undone» at Altria, skyscrapers at MoMA, and model building for Zaha Hadid.

The piece examines issues of the natural and built landscape by comparing the monoculture that arises from unchecked suburban and urban sprawl with that of an over-cultivated landscape — creating a work that is «picturesque, familiar and simultaneously foreboding.»

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.

For those growing fatigued by contemporary art's ongoing invocations of the Anthropocene and its attendant aesthetics of detritus and scorched - earth urban sprawl, Thiago Rocha Pitta's show «The First Green» offered something of a reprieve.

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.

For over two decades, Maisel has rigorously photographed aerial perspectives of landscapes affected by industry, agriculture, urban sprawl and other forms of human intervention.

Urban sprawl, space junk, graffiti, buried hazardous material, and the accumulation of refuse, punctuated by heavy black areas that map a direct trail from the ubiquitous to the subconscious.

For nearly three decades, Maisel has created rigorous, captivating aerial photographs of landscapes affected by industry, agriculture, urban sprawl, and other forms of human intervention.

Sprawl: Works by 16 artists who focus on issues of urban landscapes.

Fascinated by the rationalization of space and urban sprawl, Martínez's work questions the abstract geometry of a city that has grown outwards in an uncontrolled way.

Urban sprawl and subsequent dependency on the polluting automobile was infused into rural American villages nearly four decades ago by Wal Mart and later by its «wannabes».

The Greenbelt, created by the Liberal government in 2005, «protects environmentally sensitive areas and productive farmlands from urban development and sprawl.»

By building green communities close to urban areas thereby reducing the dreaded sprawl, she asserts that we can change the green image of our generation.

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

Putting solar arrays on rooftops, parking lots, and urban brownfields need not contribute to energy sprawl at all while generating significant energy close to where it is needed, eliminating the sprawl precipitated by new transmission lines.

Energy poverty is suffered both by those on the periphery of sprawling urban areas and by those in remote rural villages.

Sequester CO2 in the deep ocean Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Limit urban sprawl Use animal feeds that reduce CH4 emissions by belching cows Reduce poverty Slow population growth Fig, p. 481

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

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.

By investing in OSW projects, coastal states can potentially circumvent a perennial dilemma: how to cost - effectively construct new onshore electricity transmission infrastructure to serve growing demand in densely populated urban areas and sprawling suburbs.

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

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.

Reduce deforestation Sequester CO2 in the deep ocean Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Limit urban sprawl Use animal feeds that reduce CH4 emissions by belching cows Reduce poverty Slow population growth Fig, p. 481