Sentences with phrase «on urban land»

Last fall, Seattle was ranked # 4 on the Urban Land Institute's list of markets to watch in 2016.

Julie is active in the real estate community currently serving on the PIDC's Loan Committee and on the Urban Land Institute's Young Leaders Council.

This may reflect a perceived lack of sensitivity to climate variables (e.g., studies on urban land use: see Allen and Lu, 2003; Barredo et al., 2003, 2004; Loukopoulos and Scholz, 2004; Reginster and Rounsevell, 2006), or may be an omission from the analysis (Ahn et al., 2002; Berger and Bolte, 2004).

The economic pressures on urban land are a lot greater than those on farmland.

Themes of urban place and space narrow down to a particular focus on urban land use and the post-industrial human living condition, alongside ideas of absence and presence and longing and belonging in the contemporary city.

They spent too much time on what they could learn from Ag land prices to give them wisdom on urban land prices.

Not exact matches

Urban planners find themselves doing a ton of research: analyzing data on factors affecting land use, speaking with authorities and stakeholders, and evaluating proposals.

As urban sprawl encroaches on the world's arable land, and environmental disasters send food prices soaring, innovators are seeking to take agriculture off the farm.

Located not far from Downtown Detroit, Willerer launched his urban farming business on just one acre of land.

The state government has unveiled four new land redevelopment committees that will advise the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority on urban redevelopment.

Attempts by Jews to move their people out of the urban centers and into colonies on the land have not been successful save in the neighborhood of big cities or in special circumstances.

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.

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 cities.

Land buyers have focused primarily on well - connected urban sites as developers and investors seek opportunities for house price growth beyond London.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

Berry agrees, but one wonders if he would ever admit that his own partisan thumos in defense of the land has not itself become a commodity to be sold on a market for urban types who feel alienated from their own small town and rural backgrounds.

Nor was anything like half the world's human population crowded into urban areas, with fewer chances for self - sustainability than people on the land have when times turn desperate.

Myself and many others were pleased to see that food localisation was widely seen as an obvious and necessary pathway forward, with strategic land use planning — urban and peri-urban agriculture, community gardens, edible streetscapes and so on — identified as an urgent priority for all local and state governments in the coming years.

Bike Your Park Day encourages people to explore urban and rural parks and public lands by bicycle whether it's on paved roads, paths, or mountain bike trails.

A graduate assistant on Urban Meyer's Bowling Green teams, he ended up catching a big break by landing on Jim Harbaugh's Stanford staff (as defensive ends coach and special teams coordinator) in 2007.

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.

At 8:30 a.m., during a panel discussion about the MTA's five - year plan for construction and renovation projects, representatives of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA and the Urban Land Institute New York introduce an initiative titled «Keeping NY on Track: The Importance of the MTA Transit Network in a Changing World»; Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th floor, Helen & Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, NYU, 60 Washington Square S., Manhattan.

Current plans need to focus on the regeneration of urban areas and the reuse of previously developed land.

I've passed legislation that's had a positive effect on the environment, I've passed legislation to address the city's blight and urban decay through enacting our county land bank, which has been incredibly successful.

On March 28, 2014, the Board of Directors for the New York State Urban Development Corporation, doing business as Empire State Development («ESD»), accepted the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement («the DSEIS»), adopted an amendment to the Modified General Project Plan («the Proposed Amendment»), and authorized a Public Hearing in connection with the Atlantic Yards Land Use Improvement and Civic Project.

Next Monday, Community Board 3's land use committee will meet to vote on proposed guidelines for the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.

Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park (BLCP) is a newly - developed «smart growth», urban commerce park on reclaimed waterfront land in Buffalo, New York with multi-modal transportation opportunities and excellent access to the interstate.

Equally, instead of encouraging low - tech traditional farming methods it may be preferable to focus on improving high - yield mechanised agriculture on the most fertile farmland to feed the new urban residents, whilst allowing mountainsides and other marginal lands to revert to forest.

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

The study, published this month in the journal of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, draws on Seattle's current land use, light availability and national nutritional guidelines to determine the city's carrying capacity for feeding its population.

60 % of the land surface which is expected to be urban by 2030 is currently not built on at all.

The population of cities in the studied region grew annually, on average, at 2.8 %, in contrast to the rates of change for urban land average, which grew 2.0 % annually.

«Local politicians have sought to increase town centre populations by encouraging the supply of high density urban housing on almost every available plot of land.

A small nuclear plant capable of producing 200 to 400 megawatts could be built on the same amount of land closer to urban electrical markets.

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.

The second was Compact Development, based on possible land use distribution in the region if authorities had implemented growth management and land conservation policies, such as density incentives and urban growth boundaries.

«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.

They specifically wanted to answer the question is «the temperature rise on land improperly affected by the four key biases (station quality, homogenization, urban heat island, and station selection)?»

The conclusion is one of several fascinating findings from the first long - term, systematic assessment of the influence of urban land use on thunderstorm development.

He has published in numerous social science and environmental science journals on topics of land and water management, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, residential development, and urban resilience.

I am starting an infantile NGO that focuses on fighting famine through urban agriculture and land resuscitation.I am focusing my work in the Horn of Africa trying to prepare for impending famine.

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Urban waltzes through cliché land himself pouring on the evil sneers and squints, but it's not entirely his fault; his character is just poorly developed.

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.

Her teaching and research focus on property, land use, urban development, local government law, and education policy.

Murray Dietsch, Director of Land Rover Programmes, said: «We have focused on ensuring that the car is agile and fun to drive, so that customers have a rewarding experience, even in day - to - day urban driving.

There were certain rumors and not just rumors, Land Rover officials have been saying that they are working on a sportier version of the classy urban crossover, Evoque.

But bigger trucks, such as the Ford Excursion and Chevrolet Suburban sport - utility models, require parking lanes nearly 10 feet wide; and that's putting the squeeze on the availability of space for smaller vehicles, according to The Dimensions of Parking, an Urban Land Institute publication.

«The Range Rover Evoque is ideally suited to urban driving, with its agile handling, compact size and green performance, and it's fitting that our Pulse of the City campaign is focused on capturing the spirit of city life,» said John Edwards, Land Rover's global brand director.

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