Someday our little five-acre homestead, currently surrounded by forests and hayfields, will be another victim of sprawl. |
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Nearly all the reclaimed land made available by the construction of the Aswan Dam has been eaten up by insatiable urban sprawl. |
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In his later articles, Brown increasingly referred to the urban problems of slums, blighted areas and suburban sprawl. |
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Loss of rural farm and forestlands in the face of urban sprawl is a growing concern in the United States. |
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Sometimes I like an armchair, but with a sofa you can be really lazy and sprawl all over it. |
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They seem to see sprawl as a problem to be eliminated, not a necessary evil to be mitigated. |
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Trading urban sprawl for expansive green fields and terraces for neighbourless living surely suggests a burning desire for a change of pace. |
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And by distributing a new pattern of economic activity over a broad rural area, even while stifling growth, prisons create sprawl. |
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It keeps the fruit clean if tomato plants aren't staked and are allowed to sprawl on the ground. |
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Then he condemned sprawl even as he designed bigger and bigger suburban shopping centers. |
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Compacting urban functions makes the cities more vibrant and protects the outlying areas from sprawl. |
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Many architecture critics go beyond opinion about the aesthetics of individual buildings, including reporting on sprawl and urban development. |
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Albert Markovski is a poet and environmentalist fighting for greenspace against encroaching suburban sprawl. |
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The designer goods are in there, but they must be ferreted out of mass quantities stacked on undifferentiated shelves in an encompassing sprawl. |
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Long treated as a back, it was full of coal stores and junk, and cluttered with a sprawl of buildings added piecemeal over the years. |
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Amid a scruffy sprawl of warehouses and marinas, on a former brownfield site in Tacoma, Washington, sits the sparkling new Museum of Glass. |
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As urban areas sprawl into traditionally rural, agricultural areas, land uses are becoming major, sometimes pivotal community issues. |
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Despite the new and uniform sandstone buildings that sprawl outward, arriving in old Aleppo felt magical. |
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Nothing of the urban sprawl so common to the American south infests its spotless streets and trendy shops. |
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It formed a twisting spiderweb of lines and patterns, a swirling sprawl of lightning that stretched out into infinity. |
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But I don't think I can set aside my prejudices about the vacuousness of life in suburban sprawl. |
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Cities have overflowed into suburbs, and urban sprawl has made some idyllic suburbs a congestion nightmare. |
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The postwar years brought a vast urban sprawl and a tangle of freeways, along with increasing ethnic and class divisions. |
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Due to the geographical limitations of the sea on one side and mountains on the other, the urban sprawl is confined to one area. |
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The Conservatives, on the other hand, believe sprawl is a provincial and municipal issue, and are washing their hands of it. |
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All of the planet was either polluted seas, barren wastelands, or decaying urban sprawl. |
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What it rarely does is reflect upon big-picture issues such as energy efficiency, public transit and urban sprawl. |
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These types of communities could avoid the detrimental impacts of urban sprawl, including aggravation of the region's air quality problems. |
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Nature is busy at work even in a place of towering bricks and mortar with concrete sprawl. |
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A floor so clean you could sprawl on it without having to coat yourself in spilled booze or cigarette ash. |
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It would be a tragedy to see this special place spoiled by urban sprawl, given its natural beauty and well-preserved history. |
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They slap their fellow males on the back, sprawl across sofas and shoot repeated glances at target females. |
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Lack of open space to relieve hard-packed pavement and gap-toothed Main Streets drained by malls and sprawl sap the life from downtown. |
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These strategies, many believe, are also key to revitalizing our inner cities and helping to mitigate the effects of suburban sprawl. |
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They also say that urban sprawl on hillsides and in low-lying areas has been allowed to grow out of control. |
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He looks lugubriously over the sprawl of Northampton, coughs frighteningly and mops his brow. |
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It's located in Concord, California, far from the madding chic of San Francisco, out in the sprawl of bedroom communities. |
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On the way you pass through the sprawl of makeshift dwellings that are home to tens of thousands of squatters. |
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Suburban sprawl surrounds the two major northern cities of Inverness and Aberdeen. |
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So, for example, just the other day did you a story about urban sprawl and the effect of illegal immigration on the environment. |
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Henry cuts in from the left, lets his marker sprawl on the turf and slams the ball past Stiel. |
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If you're not enlightened, Savemart is this big second-hand barn of a store nestled in the industrial sprawl of northern Te Rapa. |
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She called the ugly fat water snakes her little chickabiddies, and let them crawl and sprawl about on her spongy bosom. |
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With the steady erosion of its rural hinterland, the Forest will over time become an isolated park in a subtopian south Hampshire sprawl. |
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Meanwhile, real farmers fight against a massive outer beltway that would still more suburban sprawl. |
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Plant Hydrangea petiolaris in a large shady area as ground cover and encourage it to sprawl, not climb. |
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It may be appropriate at this point to emphasise that uncaptured betterment tends to contribute to urban sprawl in three ways. |
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Low-lying plains sprawl across half the equatorial region in the shape of a scorpion. |
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According to the report, urban sprawl results in the development of areas that are strictly commercial, industrial or residential. |
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Because of urban sprawl, it's more difficult for people to get in touch with the natural world. |
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As urban sprawl continues and zoning laws are not established, more battlefields are lost each year. |
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Rural homesteads beyond the tentacles of urban sprawl remain the best place to preserve traditional Amish ways. |
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They lower surrounding property value and contribute to urban sprawl as businesses relocate to farmland and open space. |
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About 1,000 square miles of the drained wetlands are used for sugarcane farming, and the rest is urban sprawl. |
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Voice your concern about loss of wildlife habitat to new road construction, road expansion, and urban sprawl. |
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A flash of pain traced a thin course across his chest and he reeled backward to sprawl in the twilit clearing. |
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And the incredible growth of sprawl around the central city has bypassed the traditional pattern of gentrification. |
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Sprawl expands everywhere but the center, leaving downtowns underutilized, neighborhoods abandoned. |
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Chinguetti, a town that sits on the edge of an immense sea of sand like a harbour village, is a sprawl of labyrinthine streets and walled courtyards. |
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Auto factories tend to sprawl horizontally over huge lots, and have flat roofs. |
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In this case that's the Midland mainline whose modern bridges sprawl across the canal, blotting out the sky as the occasional train thunders overhead. |
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By the 1960s, urban sprawl had created enormous megalopolises. |
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Its reliance on single-use zoning, for instance, can make it seem like urban sprawl is the only way for cities to grow. |
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Urban sprawl and changes in fanning methods have been hard on bobwhites. |
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Along with recommendations related to the uptown region and urban sprawl, the height and density study provided a set of recommendations on student housing. |
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Suburban sprawl continued to dominate the metropolitan area, even though urban renewal had become the rationale for the sale of inner-city industrial land for housing. |
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One of the last open spaces available to the many people living in the Tang Hall, Osbaldwick and Appletree Village areas will become urban sprawl. |
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Even out in Nebraska, urban sprawl destroys cornfield after cornfield. |
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Consider the problems arising from overpopulation and urban sprawl. |
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The homogenous and sparse population was replaced by the restless diversity, sprawl and cacophony of one of the fastest growing places in America. |
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They hurl themselves around in hedonistic spasms, a gangly sprawl of boots, limbs and hair, clad in more skin-tight black than a roomful of rock hacks. |
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Over the past few decades, rapid regional growth and a culture with a deeply imbued passion for suburban sprawl have taken their toll on downtown Phoenix. |
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This is not a radical idea, but only seems so in a country single-mindedly dedicated to replicating the economically convenient tropes of suburban sprawl. |
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It is one of hundreds of historic sites threatened by suburban sprawl. |
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For example, as suburban sprawl encroaches on farmland, people have more contact with both stable flies and house flies, creating conflict with livestock producers. |
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Because most of the Intervale lies within the floodplain of the Winooski River, the land here is protected from the usual pressures of suburban sprawl. |
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And while today's Yorba Linda is a small town set amid the sprawl of Orange County, the humble home itself still speaks of the Nixon family's rural, hardscrabble life. |
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Sprawl is driven in part by the fact that new shopping centers, big box stores, and town house complexes need large tracts of land. |
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This rationalisation of the application estate will also help address desktop application sprawl. |
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It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement. |
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Some of Kent is contiguous with the Greater London sprawl, notably parts of Dartford. |
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The discovery was made at a site in the ancient Pharaonic capital of Heliopolis, today a sprawl of working and middle class districts in Cairo. |
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In the 20th century, suburban and commuter services appeared at Paddington as the urban sprawl of London moved westwards. |
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The suburban sprawl observed in Tijuana leaves the downtown and beach areas relatively affluent. |
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Oriental poppies are tall and tend to sprawl so set them out at least 18in apart, and support them with a circular metal growth ring. |
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One indication of urban sprawl is increased land development in low-density areas. |
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The environmentally-aware designer came up with the concept for Toronto in a bid to beat urban sprawl. |
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Cities have significantly decentralized over recent decades in a pattern known as urban sprawl. |
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It particularly addressed how to deal with urbanizing areas and urban sprawl, such as what is happening today in Santa Clarita. |
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Amidst the unzoned sprawl of my files is a folder containing favorite examples of political invective I've collected over the years. |
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Kim Bain looks out a window and examines the sprawl of new houses that have popped up across the desert canyons of his hometown. |
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Manchester acquired the nickname Cottonopolis during the early 19th century owing to its sprawl of textile factories. |
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the city's urban sprawl spread to the neighboring districts of Santiago and Wanchaq. |
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Maya cities usually had a ceremonial and administrative centre surrounded by a vast irregular sprawl of residential complexes. |
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This urban sprawl does not only affect the plateau but also the Jura and the Alpine foothills and there are growing concerns about land use. |
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The plant may also root in a soilless medium and will sprawl along the ground if it does not have supports. |
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Dinosaur legs extend directly beneath the body, whereas the legs of lizards and crocodilians sprawl out to either side. |
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For many residents, a monocrop of million-dollar homes is nearly as awful a nightmare as suburban sprawl. |
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They have been drained to create agricultural land or filled to accommodate urban sprawl. |
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California and Arizona are major producers of citrus crops, although growing metropolitan sprawl is absorbing much of this land. |
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South of the river there has also been expansion with new areas such as Edwalton and West Bridgford, adding to Nottingham's urban sprawl. |
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The pine flatwoods are also at great risk, mostly from fire suppression and urban sprawl. |
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Coastal development and urban sprawl has caused significant loss of these essential habitats. |
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Many of our past difficulties in dealing with sprawl come from some very mistaken if widely held assumptions. One is that sprawl is due to too many people and not enough land. |
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Harshly critical of urban sprawl, Mumford argues that the structure of modern cities is partially responsible for many social problems seen in western society. |
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Hong Kong was rated as the best city after additional criteria, including urban sprawl, connection and proximity to other cities, and pollution were taken into account, news. |
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At home, at school, or in the living room he would sprawl unceremoniously. |
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Here his displays began to sprawl sideways to form wide oblong pictures, unusual in the north, although Heda sometimes painted taller vertical compositions. |
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The New Urbanists, he charges, talk about intimate, pedestrian places, but duplicitously situate most of their projects on the metropolitan fringe, compounding sprawl. |
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This non-place could be the flatscape of a parking lot, or a suburban sprawl littered with supermarkets, parkways, little houses and garden plots. |
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Sandwiched between the sprawl of affluent suburbs to the north and poorer ones to the south, a dense city centre spreads into a series of small communities. |
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Dinosaurs stand with their hind limbs erect in a manner similar to most modern mammals, but distinct from most other reptiles, whose limbs sprawl out to either side. |
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If you live in or around Houston you cannot survive without wheels. The city is very spread out and continues to sprawl outward and consume more and more real estate. |
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Urban sprawl is a concern for administrators of local governments across North America, but the impacts of outward growth do not have to be negative. |
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