Sentences with phrase «urban land use patterns»

Neither stepped up the plate to say: «We need to switch to higher density urban land use patterns, and encourage mass transit and bicycles».

Investment in transit infrastructure also contributes to the livability of our cities and communities by reducing air pollution, reducing congestion (during peak commuting periods) and promoting urban land use patterns (that reduce energy use).

Major transit investments contribute to the livability of communities by reducing air pollution, offering additional travel capacity during periods of congestion (including peak commuting hours), and promoting compact urban land use patterns that reduce energy use.

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California also provides an interesting case study because of its topographic complexity, extensive urban and agricultural land use, and Mediterranean climate characterized by distinctive rainfall and temperature patterns.

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

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.

It will explore the environmental, social and economic impacts of topics such as expansion of urban and suburban development, conversion of lands from one use to another and migration patterns.