Urban Sprawl
Today, most American cities are characterized by decaying central downtowns from which residents and businesses have fled to low-density suburbs spreading out around a network of increa...
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Sprawl
A term used in debates about urban growth, sprawl does not have a precise, academic definition. As a noun, it most often refers to spread-out development that requires people to use a car for e...
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Land, location and liquidity -- they are the rocks on which modern property development builds. But what happens when land becomes scarce and shifting economics alter perceptions of what's desirabl...
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Farm-supply cooperative Southern States has closed 115 stores in the past six years, many falling victim to the same trend that has forced some of its traditional clients out of business _ urban sp...
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Lennar Corp., one of the nation's largest homebuilders, said Tuesday it expected a fourth-quarter loss as the company reevaluates how much its inventory is worth amid a slowing industry.The Miami-b...
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There is a "high possibility" a huge underground drainage tunnel could soon fail, flooding parts of this mountain-ringed metropolis 15 feet deep in sewage, the national water agency said Tuesday.Of...
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Shepherds from across the world joined their Spanish colleagues to lead flocks of sheep through the streets of downtown Madrid on Sunday in defense of ancient grazing routes threatened by urban spr...
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LONDON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The world's scarce resources are
being depleted at a wholly unsustainable rate despite urgent
warnings sounded two decades ago, the United Nations'
Environment Programme...
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Is French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a conservative with friends in big business and not much of an environmental record, going green?Three days after taking office, Sarkozy discussed global warmin...
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Sydney (dpa) - Cambodia's Angkor Wat was the focus of devotions of
the hundreds of thousands of Buddhists who lived nearby in during its
heyday some 800 years ago, an Austra...
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Nearly one in four people in the Atlanta area are exercise enthusiasts stuck in neighborhoods without sidewalks or other walking amenities, according to a study that illustrates a problem for many ...
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Urban Sprawl
Sprawl
Vertical Neighborhoods Make Tall A Fix For Urban Sprawl
