Sentences with phrase «sprawling city developments»

This is an immensely complicated world, capable of sustaining vast in - game economies and sprawling city developments.

Not exact matches

Hundreds of cities and counties have imposed fees on new development, which initially helped relieve local governments from subsidizing roads, sewers, and other expenses associated with suburban sprawl.

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.

Caesars Entertainment has plans for a $ 750 million development including a casino, hotel and entertainment space in Woodbury, just 50 miles north of New York City and near the sprawling Woodbury Commons shopping center.

The Deputy Prime Minister acknowledged that the green belt was being «eaten away» by urban sprawl and there was a need for the new planned cities rather than relying on further «piecemeal» developments.

Western New York Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair and President of the State University of New York at Fredonia, Dr. Virginia Horvath said, «The direction of sprawl is finally being reversed as we see the value in reinvesting in our cities, towns, and villages.

High - density developments and sprawling suburbs or slums continue to expand the world's cities.

«A development of this size would be like adding the city of Pleasant Hill to Concord and would affect not only people in the immediate vicinity, but other residents of Concord and nearby cities who would have to deal with increased traffic congestion, pollution, and urban sprawl,» said Gleason.

This timely exhibition will stretch from the Civil Rights Movement to the Reagan Era, three decades that shaped the polarised landscape of Trump's America, and will explore tectonic shifts in American society and politics, from the decay of city centres and the decline of industry to suburban sprawl and the development of mass advertising.

As a keen survey of history, her photographs of St. Louis, Missouri, address the contrast between the city's aspirations for urban development once envisioned in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and the realization of urban sprawl that has since displaced the downtown area.

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.

«We can't use public money to subsidize pollution» but should be looking for ways to improve public transport, the efficiency of buildings and the layout of sprawling big cities, said Mr. Calderón, who is Honorary Chair of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, President of the Sustainable Human Development Foundation and a Member of the Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute.

Its sprawling development and vast impervious surfaces allowed water to just pool in the city and create flooding like no one (well, except these journalists) expected.

The «Circle of Development» series of projects was proposed by Mayor Greco to revitalize the city, which was once famous for its cigar factories but in recent decades had become a symbol of Florida's relentless urban sprawl.