Sentences with phrase «with urban sprawl»

A new study analyzes both the environmental - type problems usually associated with urban sprawl and the advancements achieved in environmental protection and human well being.

With urban sprawl creating cookie - cutter subdivisions, «a new sort of revolution» is quietly brewing, say the authors of Craving Community.

Coinciding with the urban sprawl from the Chicago metropolitan area which introduced several large corporations, employment, and prosperity to the area.

Not exact matches

So that is certainly something that is going on with Houston's big development and urban sprawl, and with climate change storms are getting stronger.

With new «density» targets favouring multi-family housing, designated urban growth areas and tougher environmental rules, the 2006 plan sought to check urban sprawl while supporting the area's further growth as North America's major economic hub.

The whole phenomenon of urban and suburban sprawl with its extreme waste and costliness can be reversed.

Redistricting in the early 1990s was bad enough, with certain Democratic urban legislators teaming up with suburban Republicans to sketch sprawling monsters linking scattered pockets of (presumably) like - minded voters, in the process often creating a slew of safe Republican districts enveloping a handful of others packed to the gills with minority and other reliably Democratic voters.

A larger road network with faster speed limits encourages urban sprawl by inducing people to move to suburbs more distant from their jobs, and, more generally, to be more likely to plan longer trips in their cars.

We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag and whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look at the same night sky, and dream the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath by the same almighty creator (CONTRAST, RULE OF THREE, EXAGGERATION AND METAPHOR).

We offer preliminary estimates of the lands unlikely to support new waves of climate refugees due to the residues of war, exhausted natural resources, declining net primary productivity, desertification, urban sprawl, land concentration, «paving the planet» with roads and greenhouse gas storage zones offsetting permafrost melt,» Geisler said.

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.

Both during the games and today, mothers living in Rio's sprawling urban slums give birth weekly to microcephalic babies (children born with abnormally small heads and a range of other complications).

They found that large parts of Europe are affected by urban sprawl, with the lowest levels in Iceland and the highest in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Using the WUP method, she compared the two cities and found that urban sprawl has accelerated continuously since 1951, with the fastest increases taking place in the last 25 years.

Sunbelt cities like Los Angeles, Riverside, Calif., and Houston, with their seemingly endless sunny days, gridlocked urban sprawl and heat - trapping stagnant air masses, contain the highest average concentrations of ozone, according to a 2009 study by University of California, Berkeley scientists.

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.

Walkabout's first five minutes tell you everything while saying nothing: images of the city overlaid with aboriginal music, breathing exercises at a girls» school that complement the native sounds, an oasis of parkland in the urban sprawl, a lone tree in a concrete square, a patch of swimming - pool blue in an apartment block contrasted with the white - hot nothingness of the outback.

This is one of those sprawling urban tales — like Paul Haggis» Crash or Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland — with big ensemble casts playing characters whose lives intersect in surprising ways.

She did build a sprawling house filled with architectural oddities in San Jose, one that has become a tourist spot, spawning dozens of urban legends.

The game is, on the surface, an open - world urban adventure title that fits in pretty well alongside contemporary examples of the genre (GTA, Saints Row, etc); you've got story missions that move the narrative forward and side missions that offer some sort of bonus to your stats or inventory, all conveniently labeled with radar blips on the maps of the sprawling cities you can explore.

We have small rural schoolhouses with children in mixed - grade groupings, sprawling suburban schools with Ivy League - worthy campuses and facilities, and historic urban schools in our nation's biggest cities...

In the congested urban sprawl of Los Angeles, the 2018 Prius C is fun to fling around with a playful chassis and precise steering.

Clearing the urban sprawl and driving the CT 200h through twisting sections of tarmac in the sheeting rain brought home two truths about this car; for most drivers, the CT 200h will grip and go whatever the weather, whatever the road, with ease.

The Mazda MINAGI is a compact crossover SUV concept that combines Mazda's SKYACTIV technologies — which represent the harmony between driving pleasure and outstanding environmental and safety performance — with emotional KODO design that communicates pent - up energy bursting with vitality as the vehicle nimbly navigates a sprawling urban cityscape.

With over two - dozen official neighborhoods, Providence is a sprawling urban patchwork.

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.

«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.

Downtown: Downtown Indianapolis continues to grow and thrive with art displays, the Cultural Trail, sports, festivals, unique restaurants and shops, ever - changing exhibits at the museums, hotels in every comfort and price range, our sprawling urban park and outdoor concert venue; all the things that make this capital city a great destination for visitors and locals alike.

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.

The residential architecture of the Tower District contrasts with the newer areas of tract homes urban sprawl in north and east areas of Fresno.

Whereas Crysis 2 featured a lot of tighter, urban environments, the original game took place on a sprawling, tropical island and gave you plenty of space to run wild with your state - of - the - art nanosuit abilities.

Mad Fellows Games are a developer born out of the urban sprawl of Leamington Spa, UK and they've been working pretty closely with ID@Xbox to reveal a game that was a little tricky to find information for.

The Metro Kingdom, on the other hand, is a sprawling urban area, complete with realistically proportioned citizens walking around.

With «Surface Tension,» the artist's new exhibition at James Cohan Gallery (on view through November 30), Taylor continues to evolve her rarefied style, devoting her latest body of work to find surprising instances of transcendence in urban sprawl.

SPRAWL Co-curated by former Houston Center for Contemporary Craft curatorial fellow Susie J. Silbert and former HCCC curator Anna Walker, SPRAWL explores the urban landscape with works by 16 artists presented in three thematic sections loosely based on the three phases of urban growth.

Queer and Trans folx, especially Queer an Trans folx of color in SF, live with the constant «push out» of the city due to ongoing and persistent gentrification / racism / colonialism in this urban sprawl.

The piece examines issues of the natural and built landscape by comparing the monoculture that arises from unchecked suburban and urban sprawl with that of an over-cultivated landscape — creating a work that is «picturesque, familiar and simultaneously foreboding.»

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With an eye to the romantic sublime and another on the burgeoning urban sprawl, Siri Hayes» photographic landscapes are at once lyrical and down - at - heel.

The work was a sprawling labyrinth of 15 rooms, including a grimy taxi dispatcher's office and an urban guerrilla hideout, with stacks of Lenin pamphlets and a beat - up sofa.

Speaking of the local buildings, he said: «Here, typically Spanish living styles, with flat - roofed houses white or brightly coloured, blend with the need to want to represent, at least hypothetically, the urban sprawl of the great European capital, with modern tourist residences, impersonal and very similar to each other built in the middle of unspoiled places or at the very tourist beach resorts.

With me piloting the car, Joel as navigator and Zoë keeping up a lively banter of good cheer in the midst of occasional wrong turns, we traverse the 502 square miles of urban sprawl in search of challenging new art in studios, galleries, museums and private residences.

While Bradford evokes his loaded subject matter with his characteristically direct and literal title, Helter Skelter I presents the viewer with an abstract composition that does not seem to directly correlate visually, other than its resemblance to the urban sprawl and vastness of Los Angeles.

In recent history, Hong Kong went through major, rapid changes, creating a dense urban sprawl with its own particular characteristics.

It appears to me that the family of humanity is beginning to come face to face with a myriad of growing global challenges — air pollution, sea and land contamination, global warming, peak oil, diminishing global supplies of grain, overfishing, the dissipation of Earth's scarce resources, desertification, deforestation, urban sprawl and autoban congestion are examples — the sum of which could soon become unsustainable, given a finite planet with the relatively small size and make - up of Earth.

Same for real estate with their space heating systems, and urban sprawl with its assumption of cheap personal transport.

But every time it builds another branch in the suburbs with its monster parking lot and its three lane drive - through ATMs, it is contributing to the creation of more greenhouse gas, more imported oil, more urban sprawl.

«We offer preliminary estimates of the lands unlikely to support new waves of climate refugees due to the residues of war, exhausted natural resources, declining net primary productivity, desertification, urban sprawl, land concentration, «paving the planet» with roads, and greenhouse gas storage zones offsetting permafrost melt.»