America's transport network is similarly dysfunctional, says a recent Urban Land Institute report.
In 1996 about half of all new housing was built on urban land.
That means that the amount of urban land will double in only 19 years, whereas the urban population will double in 43 years.
For the last 18 months, volunteers have come to help pick and package the vegetables and herbs grown on this tiny patch of urban land.
His new powers extend beyond relief and reconstruction to cover areas including infrastructure, banking and finance, rural and urban land use, telecommunications, defence and security.
Backed by EPA and HUD, urban land speculators could see their suburban competitors regulated as is already the case in California into oblivion.
But the marshy, urban land is not their natural habitat, and it exposes them to frequent health problems, especially eye and feet infections, cuts and parasites.
Urban land shortages and subsequent higher costs, coupled with a general densification trend, means high rises are sprouting rapidly in even the most sprawling of urban landscapes.
The Urban Land Institute panel of planners, developers, architects and financial and government experts delivered its recommendations at a public meeting in a crowded downtown hotel ballroom.
And restricting land seizures could help push up the price of land on the periphery of urban areas and encourage a more rational use of existing urban land.
While some of their offices are situated there, they were unable to develop much of it due to restrictive regulations in the form of the Urban Land Ceiling ( Regulation) Act.
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"Baby boomers are downsizing and getting tired of mowing the lawn, and many are looking for a place where they don't have to drive for everything, " said Christopher Leinberger, a Washington urban land-use strategist and partner in developer Arcadia Land Co.
It is unclear at this stage how much of this increase in value is attributable to the infrastructure and amenities built by the government as part of a TPS, and how much is simply a consequence of zoning conversion that brings new fringe land into the urban land market.
The November election and its subsequent massive expansion of federal power may have determined which regions win the post-bust economy, but the stakes in November are particularly acute for some prime beneficiaries of what could be called the Obama economy: the education lobby, Silicon Valley venture firms, Wall Street, urban land interests and the public sector.
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Shopping malls could be a viable alternative for Costco in urban markets where land is scarce and expensive.
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Finally, it is unlikely that cities would be able to accommodate the massive growth promoted by urban boosters, land speculators and policy mavens.
The researchers excluded areas that are now urban or crop land.
He said the "size and profile" of the RG31s did not match the Army's requirements, and they could not access urban areas the Land Rovers could.
This is about how the over 300 co-operative urban gardens of the city of Havana, which includes 35000 acres of land being used for urban agriculture, make it possible to ensure the food safety of Cubans, by providing each citizen 280g of fruits and vegetables every day, and provide work to many unemployed people.
Atlanta's urban sprawl has doubled the land used for housing and commercial development since 1973.
The paintings and panoramas repeatedly document the contrast between developed land surrounding the urban Thames and the more recently settled Hudson Valley.
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The subsidy guidelines encouraged builders to construct on pricier land closer to urban areas, so that residents benefit from existing infrastructure and shorter commutes, and to erect apartment towers rather than town homes.
Man battled the elements in Mesopotamia, and the desert and its ways of plunder and raiding pushed against urban life, but the land gave rise to powerful kingdoms: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Abbasids.
Unpaid wages are a common flashpoint for urban workers, as are arbitrary land grabs by the authorities in the countryside.
The sale of land, especially in urban areas, remains excessively regulated.
For a long time, right-wingers--and some pundits--have peddled the notion that the "real America, " all that really counted, was the land of non-urban white people, to which both parties must abase themselves.
They have declared that holders of rural hukou in the countryside surrounding these cities can move into urban areas and enjoy the same welfare benefits as their urban counterparts without giving up their land entitlements.
Bank balances apart, Colombia's mobsters have huge holdings of urban property, and of good farming land.
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This problem of landless peasants is likely to grow as more land is set aside for urban and industrial development.
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