Sentences with phrase «dense urban»

In case after case, Urban3 has shown communities that they get more mileage — i.e. tax production per acre — from development in their more dense urban centers than development in their less dense suburban fringes because the land there is more highly utilized and highly valued.

It has some unique advantages over dense urban areas, but it also comes with a different set of risks.

High - rise apartment and office buildings form a dense urban core along Peachtree road.

«These assets are in dense urban areas and the competition from other property uses like offices and residential drives up the land value component of these assets.»

While traditional retail development continues to be rare, successful grocery chains like Whole Foods are driving a new development model, putting supermarkets on the ground floors of residential buildings in dense urban markets.

These warm surfaces contribute to the build up of heat in dense urban areas and that leads to a surplus of problems, including increasing summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, heat - related illness and mortality.

For some, that means a dense urban metropolis like New York or Chicago where work, home, and retail are at their doorstep.

Because of the many MLSs in the U.S., there are multiple computer operating platforms, not to mention the need to belong to several in the more dense urban areas of the east coast.

Minnesota residents share a home with companies that service the large healthcare industry throughout the state, especially dense urban environments like Minneapolis.

Lastly, not only does Ionic support standalone GPS tracking, it pulls positioning information from both GPS and GlONASS satellites, allowing it to better track users in especially dense urban environments.

I live in a dense urban apartment building, and the interference from neighbors» Wi - Fi networks makes playing shooters like Battlefield 1 over Wi - Fi very tough.

If you're in a dense urban environment with access to a lot of services (so, San Francisco or New York), August also has an «Access» option that lets you grant access to Postmates delivery people or Handy cleaning crews (but be careful, there).

2.4 GHz band Wi - Fi is very congested and if you live in a fairly dense urban area it's quite possible (and outright likely) that your Wi - Fi channel is conflicting with one or more of your neighbors» routers.

In particular, these are a bad idea in dense urban areas.

But, if you live in a more dense urban area or an apartment building, it just doesn't make sense to get a microcell when ISPs like Comcast are working on rolling out data caps.

Airspace in North America and Europe is tightly regulated, making it extremely difficult for any company to gain permission for commercial flight, especially in dense urban environments.

«This should be especially popular in dense urban environments and at events where traditional WiFi capabilities are limited,» he told LinuxInsider.

Today in dense urban areas, tenants frequently change apartments as their income grows and they tire of different neighborhoods.

For instance, premiums are much higher in Atlanta, which has a dense urban population.

In big cities and dense urban neighborhoods, auto insurance rates tend to be higher because of things like crime, theft, vandalism, and traffic.

Dense urban human settlement — the cities of the world and the buildings and infrastructure that comprise them — account for a significant percentage of human energy use, mostly for heating and cooling.

It's a pretty neat solution for a dense urban area where parking and charging spots may be at a premium.

The basic organizational principle of dense urban development is compact development.

It's wonderful to see such a vibrant, verdant, and safe space in the midst of this dense urban area, and I sincerely hope that Recife will use Jaqueira Park as a model to revitalize other parks within its city core.

After getting the people out, the next step was to actually move the industries and offices out of the dense urban cores, where so many corporations could be taken out with a single bomb, and establish them in suburban corporate campuses where just about every one of them would be a separate target.

Dense urban centers also tend to offer much more expensive dining options.

Four - fifths of us will live in dense urban areas, and increasing awareness of the carbon and water footprints of well - travelled food will have pushed locally grown produce even further up the list of desirables.

And ID has a dense urban area, Boise, where there are bike commuters and there have been NO PROBLEMS with this law.

The conference participants, which included a significant percentage of the country's architectural and urban planning heavyweights, also discussed issues such as transportation infrastructure in dense urban fabrics, population diversity in neighborhoods, open spaces and public buildings in cities, and the connection between high densities and tall buildings.

Especially in dense urban settings, dry areas, and places with high manufacturing or agricultural activity, that is very good news for people and the environment.

As Motavalli reports, Jim Burns, GM's vice-president for research and development and strategic planning, imagines Singapore as a possible first market for the PUMA - a dense urban setting where an electric rickshaw could fill multiple mobility needs.

Deforestation of northern Brazil's rainforests is pushing insanely huge reptiles out of their habitats - and into dense urban areas.

Because the land available for house building is limited, the village combines dense urban living in a rural context.

While some anti-environment extremists are painting bike paths as a communist plot, it's been shown that well - planned, dense urban neighborhoods improve quality of life and increase property values.

These solutions will provide support for New York's most vulnerable communities and be a precedent for dense urban areas all over the world.

Roda is a public bike share system designed specifically to fit the dense urban landscape of Singapore.

Washington DC, June 19, 2013 — An expected 2 °C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades threatens South Asia's dense urban populations with extreme heat, flooding, and disease and could trap millions of people in poverty across the region, according to a new scientific report released today by the World Bank Group.

Regional Vice President for South Asia Isabel Guerrero discusses how an expected 2 °C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades threatens South Asia's dense urban populations with extreme heat, flooding, and disease and could trap millions of people in poverty.

By establishing a net zero balance of carbon - free energy consumption, this ZNC definition can apply to all new and existing building types including those with limited on - site renewable energy capacity, such as buildings in dense urban environments.

Several cities already promote urban agriculture in floodplains, develop rooftop gardens in dense urban settlements, include urban forestry in new housing schemes and preserve peri-urban greenbelts for local food production.

By establishing a flexible approach, the ZERO Code is applicable to all new commercial and institutional buildings, and mid - to high - rise housing, including buildings with limited on - site renewable energy generating capacity (e.g. buildings in dense urban environments).

To propose an adapted urban form in the dense urban surroundings, which participates in achieving an internal summer comfort in one of the hottest regions, while having a limited energy consumption

The following documents are part of the final project report on «Cost - effective multi-storey Passive House in dense urban developments».

I also agree that factors making land more valuable for uses other than gas stations are the primary motivators so far in reducing station numbers, particularly in dense urban cores.

The company is constructing a six - hour energy storage project for a US utility in a dense urban pocket of a major East Coast city and lithium - ion technology has proven to be the best choice across a range of considerations including cost, safety and noise performance, and land use.

In Houston, for instance, we have so many rivers, bayous, creeks, and streams that it's easy to see how green infrastructure could wind around and through dense urban villages of many sizes and scales.

In dense urban areas, there's often nowhere to build but up, an approach that the clever team at Istanbul - based architectural firm Superpool is applying not only to its new

And, interestingly, GM just announced that they expect to be running AVs in dense urban environments by 2019.

Looking to Machiavelli for a way to put some martial arts move on the West, and flip it into dense urban housing, bicycle commuting, and radical decreases in energy consumption may allow the green elite to feel superior.

With smaller spaces becoming increasingly necessary in dense urban areas, it's always inspiring to see how others get creative with tiny apartments, whether it's architects or anthropology professors in New York City, to this LEGO - inspired home in Barcelona's up - and - coming El Born district.