Sentences with phrase «small urban home»

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That means making urban homes more affordable, which means making them smaller.

Small town Midwestern culture is becoming, if not urban, at least suburban, a place where people commute to Des Moines to work at Home Depot rather than walk down the street to run the local hardware store.

My family lives in an urban environment and our home is small.

Whether you live in a small urban apartment and are low on space or a big suburban home and just don't want to see baby gear around every corner, there are smaller options available that still bring you all the functionality you need.

«The fact that someone who grew up in the most urban area of the nation — Hell's Kitchen — could be welcomed into dairy barns in Delhi, and small businesses in Monticello, and mix with today's college students at New Paltz, while returning home at night to Orange County and being welcomed there also, is something that is a testament to the people of the 42nd Senate District,» said Bonacic.

The blueprint also encourages urban agriculture, rethinks sewer and wastewater management and reduces greenhouse gas emissions per capita to the lowest in the world by promoting even higher - density living with smaller multifamily homes, especially along transit corridors in Vancouver's downtown peninsula.

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.

But now researchers can study smaller groups of subjects to see how specific factors — for example, noise in the home or proximity to a green space — play into mental illness and, more broadly, urban stress.

As you may have gathered by now, the first level of our urban row home is small but mighty.

Chicago About Blog Advocates for Urban Agriculture seeks to expand and strengthen urban agriculture in Chicago, from home - and community - based growing to market gardens and small fUrban Agriculture seeks to expand and strengthen urban agriculture in Chicago, from home - and community - based growing to market gardens and small furban agriculture in Chicago, from home - and community - based growing to market gardens and small farms.

So, seizing the opportunity of a sympathetic audience, and amidst a season where many of the 84 movies put forward by their home countries as Academy Award contenders are floating around at festivals — big and small, rural and urban, American and elsewhere — I thought I'd weigh in on the titles I've caught.

Comic drama based on a true story and starring Matt Damon as Benjamin Mee, a recently widowed father of two teenage children who decides to make a new start by selling the family home and buying a small urban zoo.

The top - selling Honda CR - V is smaller than the Rogue, Forester, or Escape and feels more at home in urban areas (as does the RAV - 4).

Whether it's the fast - paced urban lifestyle that the Boston area has to offer, the down - home ambiance of a small, historic city, or the cool ocean breezes floating in from the Atlantic Ocean, there's a place for everyone in Massachusetts.

With housing prices spiking in major urban centres like Toronto and Vancouver, much of that growth has been in smaller communities as more and more young families choose to move further away to realize their dreams of owning a home.

Many of Canada's small homes are concentrated in larger urban centres, and Frenette is among those who maximize their time out of doors instead of spending it cooped up.

Like many urban Toronto homes, the bedrooms were on the smaller side and there was only one bathroom to share for the entire family.

The only entrance is down a small alley but the home offers four - storeys of urban living space.

Each year, home buyers across North America struggle with a familiar choice: They can pay more to live in a smaller urban property, within walking distance to schools, shops and work; or pay less for a larger suburban home with a big backyard and ample parking, but have to hop in a car for just about everything they need.

If your urban home is too small for cat trees, another option is to install carpeted shelving on the walls at various heights so your cat can use these to explore.

Bigger dogs like Herschel also struggle to find homes in urban areas, such as Los Angeles, since many potential owners prefer an apartment - friendly smaller dog.

Chicago About Blog Advocates for Urban Agriculture seeks to expand and strengthen urban agriculture in Chicago, from home - and community - based growing to market gardens and small fUrban Agriculture seeks to expand and strengthen urban agriculture in Chicago, from home - and community - based growing to market gardens and small furban agriculture in Chicago, from home - and community - based growing to market gardens and small farms.

The practice has designed a wide range of projects from the small scale of a private home to the large scale of urban design.

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.

With smaller spaces becoming increasingly necessary in dense urban areas, it's always inspiring to see how others get creative with tiny apartments, whether it's architects or anthropology professors in New York City, to this LEGO - inspired home in Barcelona's up - and - coming El Born district.

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Urban living requires efficient use of space, but it can be a very environmentally - friendly lifestyle: city residents generally live in small homes with access to walkable neighborhoods and public transportation.

Types of Urban Agriculture, including modules on microfarming in and around the homes, community - and school - gardening, small scale commercial horticulture, livestock keeping and aquaculture, larger scale entreprises, multifucntional farms, urban forestry, amongst otUrban Agriculture, including modules on microfarming in and around the homes, community - and school - gardening, small scale commercial horticulture, livestock keeping and aquaculture, larger scale entreprises, multifucntional farms, urban forestry, amongst oturban forestry, amongst others.

We've followed the small living movement in our «Tiny house trends series,» which has featured traditional homebuilders switching over to tiny homes, companies finding untapped demand in the small home market, residents of the first public tiny house community in the country seeing the movement evolve, and an architect who wants to adapt the trend to address problems of urban infill and a lack of affordability.

The inclusion of small homes as secondary dwellings on urban lots can change neighbourhoods significantly - I think often for the better - but I can see how people might see this as altering their neighbourhoods.

The tiny house movement has found a home in the Beehive State, but finding a place to put the small dwellings has become a challenge for anyone wanting to live in most urban communities along the Wasatch Front.

A perfect fit for small homes or urban renters always on the move, this insanely cute bookshelf is the work of two well known designers from the Buenos Aires scene.

From Goat Patrol's urban landscaping to the Quite Contrary After - School Farm, my adopted home town of Carrboro, NC is not short of innovative small - scale agricultural initiatives.

Jerrilyn Radcliffe and her colleagues at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia report on the MOM Program, a small home visiting program designed to encourage low - income mothers in an urban setting to obtain appropriate health and developmental services for their children ages zero to three.

Chicago About Blog Advocates for Urban Agriculture seeks to expand and strengthen urban agriculture in Chicago, from home - and community - based growing to market gardens and small fUrban Agriculture seeks to expand and strengthen urban agriculture in Chicago, from home - and community - based growing to market gardens and small furban agriculture in Chicago, from home - and community - based growing to market gardens and small farms.

If stagers usually work in large, more spacious homes, their furnishings may be too big for a smaller, urban condo.

Beginning Monday, April 2, the nominated homes will be featured on FrontDoor.com where America will vote for their favorite listing in each category, which range from beautiful beachside retreats and hip urban dwellings to small homes and grand estates.

At least for awhile small homes and urban revitalization are going to continue to be hot.

Millennials would rather choose smaller homes to live close to urban areas where they can walk or bike.

Big or small, urban or rural, each home says so much about the person that lives there and what environments make them feel at home.

Small home or not, there will always be room enough for amazing urban - inspired Christmas decorations like these!

It will dish out advice on how to «care for homes large and small, urban or rural, to create spaces that are at once beautiful and liveable, helping readers to achieve home happiness».

«There is a tiny home on an urban plot in East London, built onto the side of a garage, which proves that you can build very succinctly on a small site in the densest part of the UK.»