Sentences with phrase «in urban sprawl»

Follow me on Twitter RSS Feeds Home About Career Architects About Ethan What Students Say «Education in China: A Balanced Approach to Resource Allocation???????? 2010-02-09??? -» China's «Ant Tribe & # News from Reuters.com [link] Some say these struggling college graduates who swarm out of their cramped accommodations and head to work in the urban sprawl each morning are reminiscent of worker insects in a colony.

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.

On a given day in Tokyo, the diverse array of people using bicycles here in this urban sprawl of 30 million souls includes: the middle - aged salary man riding to work on his fold - up bike in his business suit every day; the trendy adolescent skipping off to do some window shopping; the stay - at - home mother dropping not one, but two kids off at school; the pack of old men determined not to be late for their morning gate - ball contest; and, the serious cyclist kitted out in tight lycra and a fancy water - bottle pouch.

Most are fruit bats: Insectivorous bats don't find suitable habitat in the city because they don't do well in the urban sprawl.

Queer and Trans folx, especially Queer an Trans folx of color in SF, live with the constant «push out» of the city due to ongoing and persistent gentrification / racism / colonialism in this urban sprawl.

With «Surface Tension,» the artist's new exhibition at James Cohan Gallery (on view through November 30), Taylor continues to evolve her rarefied style, devoting her latest body of work to find surprising instances of transcendence in urban sprawl.

After all that traipsing around remote beaches, it was good to be in urban sprawl of Davao City, where I met up for drinks with other backpackers passing through.

But the newfound prosperity that has accompanied this transition hasn't resulted in urban sprawl or a loss of cultural roots.

If you're looking for the ultimate getaway while in the urban sprawl of Phnom Penh, the Plantation Urban Resort & Spa is all that and more.

In the urban sprawl, City driving mode makes light work of steering effort when reverse parking and making tight manoeuvres.

Indeed this big red truck, which reminds me of a toy from my childhood come to life, is a bit conspicuous in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles.

Walkabout's first five minutes tell you everything while saying nothing: images of the city overlaid with aboriginal music, breathing exercises at a girls» school that complement the native sounds, an oasis of parkland in the urban sprawl, a lone tree in a concrete square, a patch of swimming - pool blue in an apartment block contrasted with the white - hot nothingness of the outback.

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).

Not exact matches

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«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.

The first thing you'll notice is that Los Angeles is a sprawling metropolis (the inspiration for the term urban sprawl, in fact), which can make deciding on a location a more difficult endeavor than meets the eye.

The fourth - largest urban centre in the United States, Houston is a sprawling, auto - centric city of 4.8 million.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is the jewel of Parkland, graduating top - notch students and athletes who grow up in a dignified affluence far removed from the gritty urban sprawl of Miami.

Mr. Carras is of the view that the swift pace of new condo construction in Toronto is simply making up for the decline in construction of single - family homes that is occurring in part because of government policies designed to restrict urban sprawl and promote downtown intensification.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citieIn environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citiein the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citiein the vicinity of cities.

There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.

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?

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

Logan Square just feels a bit more like Michigan, or home, in the city without it being like this big urban city sprawl.

Increase In Demands: Decrease In Resources: One of the negative consequences of urban sprawl is isolation.

Redistricting in the early 1990s was bad enough, with certain Democratic urban legislators teaming up with suburban Republicans to sketch sprawling monsters linking scattered pockets of (presumably) like - minded voters, in the process often creating a slew of safe Republican districts enveloping a handful of others packed to the gills with minority and other reliably Democratic voters.

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.

County Executive Joanie Mahoney is proposing a new development plan that she says will reward suburban communities that restrict sprawl and give tax credits to developers who build in urban centers rather than paving over farmland.

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 RamapIn 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 Ramapin some parts of Ramapo.

Many critics have complained in the past that rigid zoning standards in previous versions forced them into a «California» model of urban development — sprawling suburbs revolving around a central commercial district — which in turn forces residents to make long, traffic - clogged commutes.

China became a mostly urban country in 2011, the service sector became the biggest in 2013, and in 2015 Chinese cities will try to reverse negative trends of sprawl and pollution.

Long before the magnitude 7.0 temblor in January, Haiti's land had been subject to intensive logging and urban sprawl, which diminished its agricultural ability to supply food to its fast - growing population

Since the 1950s, urban sprawl in Switzerland has been progressing virtually unchecked.

In particular, a municipality's transport links favour urban sprawl.

«The overall goal of our study was to clarify which urban form — sprawl or more - dense development — is most appropriate for UHI mitigation,» said the study's lead author Neil Debbage, doctoral student in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences» department of geography.

In Montreal, the degree of urban sprawl went up 26-fold from 1971 to 2011, while in Quebec City, it rose ninefolIn Montreal, the degree of urban sprawl went up 26-fold from 1971 to 2011, while in Quebec City, it rose ninefolin Quebec City, it rose ninefold.

In fact, some innovations are already taking place on both sides of the Atlantic to stop urban sprawl, Jaeger points out.

With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, urban sprawl is a growing problem — particularly in North America, where single - family homes and two - car garages are common.

Both during the games and today, mothers living in Rio's sprawling urban slums give birth weekly to microcephalic babies (children born with abnormally small heads and a range of other complications).

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.

Using the WUP method, she compared the two cities and found that urban sprawl has accelerated continuously since 1951, with the fastest increases taking place in the last 25 years.

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

The fate of older sprawling suburbs with their big houses may present planners with significant challenges if housing demand shifts to smaller homes in urban areas in the way that Nelson envisions.

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

But cities can also lead to urban sprawl, and can reinforce inequalities, leaving poor and minority residents isolated even in the midst of a metropolis.

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

«It is suffering from warmer temperatures even where the habitat is still in good shape and has trouble moving north past the urban sprawl of San Diego and Los Angeles.»

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 corIn 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 corin 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 corin a developed urban core.

The lack of the hipster scene, sprawling urban landscapes, a vibrant art scene, and more affordable living are just a few of the things to count in favor of Queens.