"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.
In the 19th century Uruguay's newly-won independence was followed by a prolonged and ruinous conflict between two political factions - the land-owning Blancos (whites) and the urban Colorados (reds).
If it all goes up, CityCenter will represent a gaudy new take on urban renewal, a climate-controlled fantasy land where the well-heeled can sleep, shop and play without dirtying themselves with outsiders.
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.
If it all goes up, CityCenter will represent a gaudy new take on urban renewal, a climate-controlled fantasy land where the well-heeled can sleep, dine, shop and play without dirtying themselves with outsiders.
The co-operative is part of a growing urban agricultural movement in London, where demand for allotments -- plots of land that individuals can rent to grow fruit and vegetables -- far outstrips supply.
Unlike soy or other meat-surrogates, in vitro meat could shift the economic playing field entirely from a land use issue to the non-effluent based urban indoors.
Establishment of industrial-development zones, urban expansion and road building are all shrinking agricultural land.
Given the parlous state of urban China's social-security system, peasants would continue to regard land as a vital safety net, to be relinquished only in extreme circumstances.
The site is part public park, part wildlife sanctuary, part space for installation art -- just one more piece of reclaimed land enriching Berlin's urban life.
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.
Also show are agricultural land use and land surfaces with little or no plant cover - such as bare ground, urban areas and permanent snow and ice.
In Spain, there's new legislation that's proposed and it's going to be discussed this autumn to have a 30-year gap between a fire destroying a land and it being reclassified as an urban area.
If the Department of the Environment's estimate that, under current land-use patterns, 169, 400 hectares will go from rural to urban use by 2016 is correct, the proportion of England that is considered urban would increase 1.3 percentage points, to 11.9%.
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