Sentences with phrase «where urban sprawl»

We don't want instanced housing or open world housing where urban sprawl takes up half the world and people can't find a place to make their home.

Just 10 miles south of the city — typically a 30 - 40 minute drive — you will find a place where urban sprawl gives way to an idyllic palm fringed setting.

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«There is some truth to that, because [in] Toronto for example, there is limitation as to where you can build low rise construction,» he said, referring to green belt policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl.

A photograph of an insect, plant or animal, tagged with the date and location where it was taken, can provide valuable scientific data, e.g., on how urban sprawl impacts local ecosystems or evidence of local, regional or global climactic shifts.

With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, urban sprawl is a growing problem — particularly in North America, where single - family homes and two - car garages are common.

«It is suffering from warmer temperatures even where the habitat is still in good shape and has trouble moving north past the urban sprawl of San Diego and Los Angeles.»

Like equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to help poor, primarily urban districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schools.

Isolated from the mainland — and protected from its rampant development — the island is a beacon for those looking to shake off the bounds of urban sprawl and truly reconnect with the wild places, where nature still rules and humans can be just a part of the landscape.

After all that traipsing around remote beaches, it was good to be in urban sprawl of Davao City, where I met up for drinks with other backpackers passing through.

On the walls around My Land hang brownish Wallsprawl wallpaper, made out of repeated photographs of places where wide - open desert meets urban sprawl.

On the other, there's that unpleasant paternalistic we - need - the - green - belt - to - protect - the - poor - people - from - urban - sprawl brigade, who forget that it's such legislation which locks people into concentrated developments, and precludes them from building for themselves, where they'd like to.

Putting solar arrays on rooftops, parking lots, and urban brownfields need not contribute to energy sprawl at all while generating significant energy close to where it is needed, eliminating the sprawl precipitated by new transmission lines.

Investors have been most active in areas where considerable urban sprawl is underway, including Barrie, Innisfil and Bradford, where progress has driven prime development land prices up to as $ 100,000 an acre in some pockets, the report says.