Sentences with phrase «more urban land»

As agricultural counties transition to more urban land uses, it becomes increasingly important to plan for agriculture.

Not exact matches

Land use is only getting more complicated for governments and developers — driving up demand for urban planners.

In urban areas, lack of vacant plots of land is driving more and more urban farmers to produce food upwards on the side of buildings rather than outwards.

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.

Given the cost of land in urban areas, it is not unreasonable for a congregation purchasing and building their own sanctuary, to have a budget of a million dollars, or more.

Pollard's interest in living off the land and her desire to help others lead healthier, more sustainable lives coalesced when she opened Villagers, an urban homesteading supply store, in 2012.

Rural voters are more likely to own land or real property than urban voters (who are more likely to rent their home).

Since taking office, Hoffay has embraced a series of progressive urban planning initiatives including the Complete Streets program to make Kingston more bike - and pedestrian - friendly, an initiative to reduce the city's carbon footprint and efforts by the Kingston Land Trust to create community gardens and preserve open space.

«With the recent interest and surge in urban agriculture, we have been looking for more access to land,» she said.

Often referred to as «slum clearing,» urban renewal programs helped developers buy up land that often housed working class families and demolish their homes to rebuild newer, more expensive developments.

Could growing crops on high - rise buildings feed growing urban populations, thereby sparing the need to cultivate more and more tracts of land?

Such municipalities are much better equipped to employ newer and more sophisticated planning instruments, such as special land use plans with urban planning requirements.

Contrary to previous findings, the new results reveal that the rate of population change has grown much more rapidly than the expansion of urban land.

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.

When it was first proposed, no comparable urban green space could be found in the whole of the United States — and it seemed unlikely that one would arise on land that could be put to other, more profitable use - especially with New York real estate values on a steady rise.

One common tool is applicable to the vast array of ecological and social science interactions at the critical wildfire / urban interface: more effective land - use planning, along with the regulations that guide it.

«Urban expansion on the scale the world is going to experience is going to require more land,» argued economist Paul Romer of New York University's Stern School of Business.

This translates into an average temperature rise of 4.3 C over land in the northern hemisphere where most of the world's population lives, and even more in urban areas.

As urban land becomes scarcer and more expensive, buildings and spaces previously overlooked are being recycled for housing.

Danielle Harris has also starred in «Stake Land», «Urban Legend», «Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead», «Roseanne», «One Life to Live», «The Last Boy Scout», «Free Willy», «Hatchet II», «Hatchet III», «Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2», «See No Evil 2», and many more, mostly within the horror genre.

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

The decision to expand existing schools in urban areas, where land is scarce and expensive, is often the most practical way of creating more places, he says.

Land Rover are launching the new Range Rover Sport in New York for the simple reason that, despite the new RRS having Land Rover abilities off - road, the more compact dimensions of the Sport find favour in the urban jungle.

A peaceful urban forest that gives life to its city is in danger to lose even more land due to the unquenchable voracity of real state developers and the passivity of the local authorities.

TORONTO — Homeowners who choose the convenience of city life over the more generous living space in suburbia are driving Canada's real estate market, according to a new report jointly produced by consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers and the non-profit Urban Land Institute.

Michele Lerner, author of «HOMEBUYING: Tough Times, First Time, Any Time», has been writing about personal finance and real estate for more than two decades for a variety of publications and websites including Investopedia, Insurance.com, HSH.com, SavingsAccount.com, National Real Estate Investor magazine, The Washington Times, Urban Land magazine, NAREIT's REIT magazine and numerous Realtor associations.

Michele Lerner, author of «HOMEBUYING: Tough Times, First Time, Any Time,» has been writing about personal finance and real estate for more than two decades for a variety of publications and websites including The Washington Post, The Motley Fool, Investopedia, Insurance.com, HSH.com, SavingsAccount.com, National Real Estate Investor magazine, The Washington Times, Urban Land magazine, NAREIT's REIT magazine and numerous Realtor associations.

Of course, the opposite is true: the closer you buy property to a major urban centre, the more costly the land, the faster you can turn the property around for a profit.

The press release teases various plots including «cases of mistaken identity, androids from an outlandish land, real live urban legends, a haunted lair, familiar faces (Shadow and more characters from the Sonic game universe), plus epic conflicts with powerful, new foes».

Since then, the land art genre has been subsumed under the more general term «environmental art,» which has broadened to include the global community, microscopic worlds, cyber space and suburban sprawl, as well as wilderness and the urban environment.

For those with not so deep pockets, the auction provides the buyers an opportunity to purchase some more affordable pieces like Mel Bochner's Blah Blah Blah, a print by an American urban artist D * Face entitled American Depress, Providence by Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns» print After Holbein, Diana by Alex Katz, a piece by Willem de Kooning entitled Landing Place, and Robert Longo's Study for Ascension Album Cover.

That money could be shifted to incentives for people to use their feet, bicycles, or smaller autos in their daily journies to work; incentives to make homes and workplaces more energy efficient; incentives to shift future land developments into in - fill projects rather than urban sprawl; and incentives to make cities more friendly to pedestrians and less friendly to cars.

More specifically, if 5 % of your population (urban land) is represented by 50 % of your sampling, and if 95 % of your population (rural land) is represented by the other 50 % of your sample, What kind of claims can you make about difference between the two?

Urban life can be productive and satisfying and is almost always much more efficient in terms of energy and land use.

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But even more valuable than natural resources like oil is the value of urban land.

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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 Midwest has a population of more than 61 million people (about 20 % of the national total) and generates a regional gross domestic product of more than $ 2.6 trillion (about 19 % of the national total).14 The Midwest is home to expansive agricultural lands, forests in the north, the Great Lakes, substantial industrial activity, and major urban areas, including eight of the nation's 50 most populous cities.

We do not need any more land stations, just better configuration of those which are used, to avoid bias and urban heat island effect.

Cross cutting sections explore climate change impacts at the intersection of various sectors (such energy, water, and land use), as well as impacts on urban areas, rural communities, Indigenous Peoples, and more.

Also, people will probably be more likely to want to live in the yellow areas (from fig 4) than the blue areas, so again, maybe this signal is just an indirect measurement of land - use and urban heat island.

Therefore, urban areas place a huge burden not only on the absorptive capacity of the local environment; they also influence wide patterns of energy and land use in the surrounding and more distant areas, in the livelihoods and quality of life of people living... Read more

Many more flawed or misleading presentations of Global Warming science exist in the book, including those on Arctic sea ice thinning, correction of land - based temperature measurements for the urban heat island effect, satellite vs. ground - based measurements of Earth's warming, and controversies over sea level rise estimates.

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.

Among the 40 or so non-city-leaders were resilience - focused representatives of various federal agencies (including the alphabet soup of FEMA, HUD, DOE, EPA, and NIST), along with experts from more than a dozen leading organizations whose work touches on resilience: the Urban Land Institute, World Resources Institute, Trust for Public Land, Rocky Mountain Institute, The Clinton Foundation, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, STAR Communities, Global Green, and yours truly from the Resilient Design Institute.

Beyond the positive economic impact to state and local governments, clean energy lowers our bills, makes us healthier and more secure, enables us to be better stewards of our land, and bridges the economic disparities between rural and urban communities of our state.

If CO2 changes represent 5 % of the observed changes, this may be more than the 4 % of land use changes, which maybe more than the 1 % influences of Urban Heat Effect.

more efficient community use of water, land, forests and other natural resources, improving access and reducing emissions (e.g., conservation of water in urban areas reduces energy used in moving and heating water);

As executive director of the Scenic Hudson Land Trust, he has led the group in safeguarding tens of thousands of acres, creating dozens of parks and preserves, and transforming neglected urban waterfront sites into more publicly beneficial uses.