Sentences with phrase «largest urban land»

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Other real estate assets are being revitalized, including the former Lakeview generating station property in southeastern Mississauga, which is expected to see a balanced mix of commercial, residential and recreational development over the next decade; and the Seaton Lands in Pickering, where one of the largest new urban communities in Canada will be developed over the next 20 years.

The first is the redrawing of Highwood's boundaries where new electoral lines have transformed the riding from a large rural land base to a small, dense area of people that more closely resembles an urban riding.

Presentation topics ranged from partnering to achieve large - scale land protection and revitalizing urban rivers to supporting green communities and promoting farms and agricultural landscapes.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

Trailside also serves as the visitor center to the Blue Hills, the state's largest swath of protected land in a suburban / urban setting.

Howe then worked for Andrew Cuomo at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before going in to the private sector, eventually landing with Whiteman Osterman Hanna, one of the largest and most politically connected lobbying and law firms in Albany.

A lot of the center part of the state that are further away from the larger urban areas like Buffalo and Rochester, that land between.

«Houston, for example, is home to one of the largest populations of engineers of any city in the world and is accustomed to engineering its way out of problems without conducting a lot of urban land use planning,» Berke said.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

In any case, there's been a surprisingly large number of people that have (incorrectly) interpreted the figure in Dr. Urban's interview as just meaning a higher land sensitivity than ocean sensitivity.

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One strategy that works well in urban areas is to buy a larger piece of land that currently has a single building and then go through the process of severing and rebuilding multiple dwellings on the land.

On land, Jacksonville is home to the largest urban park system in the nation, with 10 state and national parks.

By partially dismantling large - scale structures to make something entirely new, Matta - Clark defined an urban equivalent of Land Art, the massive earthwork installations created in remote settings during the 1960s and 1970s by Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, Richard Long, and, above all, Robert Smithson, best remembered for his Spiral Jetty in Utah's Great Salt Lake.

He creates large site - specific earthworks on and around his family's land, which highlight the grounds on which the urban and rural collide and compete.

Since many meteorological stations are located in or near large cities, these «urban heat islands» might introduce a spurious trend into temperature records.3 This is the most serious possible source of systematic error to have been identified in land - based data.

Australia is a large country, but around 62 % of all fuel used for land travel is consumed in urban areas.

«The urban heat island effect is locally large and real, but does not contribute significantly to the average land temperature rise.

Such specific conditions include among others: limited availability of space and the high price of urban land, proximity to large numbers of people (and thus a need for safe production methods), use of urban resources (organic waste and wastewater), and possibilities for direct producer - consumer contacts.

Urban agriculture to a large extent complements rural agriculture and increases the efficiency of the national food system in that it (IDRC 1998) provides products that rural agriculture can not supply easily (e.g. perishable products, products that require rapid delivery upon harvest), that can substitute for food imports and can release rural lands for export production of commodities.

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.

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.

The project will include more than 2,000 acres of land surrounding the mountain for ponds, recreation areas, bike and walking trails, wildlife areas, etc, making it the largest park in Israel and one of the largest urban parks in the world.

However, retention times of one to two weeks are typical resulting in large footprints which take up limited land resources especially in urban areas.

Chesapeake is the second largest city in Virginia based on land covered, and is one of the most diverse cities in the country with urban areas, farmland, forests, and other types of areas to offer.

While a large proportion of all Indigenous enterprise activity in Australia occurs in urban environments, this report focuses on agreements and development on Indigenous land under communal title, and therefore the context is predominantly remote.

McCauley serves on the board of the Urban Development Institute (UDI) Pacific Region as vice chair at large, is a director on the board of Junior Achievement B.C. and is a past director of the Building Industry and Land Development Association of Toronto (BILD).

And in many urban centres, pavements represent the largest area of land cover (estimates range from 29 to 45 per cent) when compared with surfaces covered by roofs and vegetation.

The results are being released this week in Dallas at the annual meeting of the Urban Land Institute, the country's largest commercial real estate organization.

Taking away government's ability to include non-blighted property in assembling these large tracts of land will force development out to the suburbs, which could leave impoverished urban areas to further deteriorate.

Created by legislation passed by the Government of Ontario in 2005, the Greenbelt is considered a major step in the prevention of urban development and sprawl on environmentally sensitive land in the province.The Government of Ontario states that the Greenbelt includes 800,000 acres (323,748.5 hectares) of land protected by the NiagaraEscarpment Plan and the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan plus 1 million acres (404,685.6 hectares) of land in the Protected Countryside overarching Greenbelt Plan.That total (7,284 km ² or 2,812 mi ²) makes this is one of the largest most successful greenbelts in the world.