Sentences with phrase «more urban land uses»

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Diverse studies of global land cover and potential productivity suggest that anywhere from 600 million to more than 7 billion additional acres of underutilized rural lands are available for expanding rain - fed crop production around the world, after excluding the 4 billion acres of cropland currently in use, as well as the world's supply of closed forests, nature reserves, and urban lands.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the demographics of eastern Europe have been shifting — populations across the region have become more urban and agricultural land use has declined dramatically.

«Figure 1 contains information on four environmental characteristics (land use, pedestrian location, light condition, and time of day and season) where / when pedestrian fatalities occurred in 2013: ■ More occurred in urban areas (73 %) than rural areas (27 %).1 ■ More occurred at non-intersections (69 %) than at intersections (20 %) for pedestrian location (10 % was other locations such as parking lanes / zones, bicycle lanes, shoulders / roadsides, sidewalks, medians / crossing islands, driveway accesses, shareduse paths / trails, non-trafficway areas, and other).

«They seem more willing than other cohorts to trade space for access to transit and a walkable, mixed - use lifestyle,» says Stockton Williams, executive director of the Urban Land Institute's Terwilliger Center for Housing in Washington, D.C. «It doesn't necessarily mean they're all saying they want to live in downtown central cities.

The U.S. population is projected to grow by 150 million within the next 40 years and «more compact, mixed - use development» is needed to handle the growth and changing demands, Patrick Phillips, CEO for the Urban Land Institute, told an audience at the National Association of Real Estate Editors annual conference this week.

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«They [millennials] seem more willing than other cohorts to trade space for access to transit and a walkable, mixed - use lifestyle,» says Stockton Williams, executive director of the Urban Land Institute's Terwilliger Center for Housing in Washington, D.C. «It doesn't necessarily mean they're all saying they want to live in downtown central cities.

The new term, discussed by a panel of experts at the recent Urban Land Institute Annual Meeting in Chicago, refers to a cohesive design used to create more urban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connectiUrban Land Institute Annual Meeting in Chicago, refers to a cohesive design used to create more urban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connectiurban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connectivity.

Opportunities are arising for real estate agents as more and more agricultural land is being adapted for recreational uses and urban brownfields are being converted for commercial and residential uses.