The state legislature has shied away from enforcing guidelines for urban development in the Phoenix area.

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Paul, Minnesota, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Donovan will meet with small business owners and area residents at the new Frogtown Square development.

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The fourth site is for eight residential pitches on green belt land on the edge of urban development at Throop Road, between Woodbury Avenue and an area of allotments.

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However, the report did warn that Tyneside could still fall into the trap of 'buzz to bland' if the creativity and character of the area is lost in the commercial development rush of urban regeneration.

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As Meeusen tells it, haphazard development around the park left Disneyland isolated in the middle of an urban area.

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Having looked at all the information, they calculated that "6.8% of the UK's land area is now classified as urban" (a definition that includes rural development and roads, by the way).

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The plan is to transform the area into a huge mixed-use development zone, which will include the largest urban park built in Europe in the last 150 years, and then use revenue from home sales rents to pay for the land purchase.

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