This phase consists of four items: urban land use, rural land use, physical features and public utility service areas.

It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.

Hughes supported Gov. Meyner's `` Green Acres '' plan for saving large tracts of open land from the onrush of urban development.

Although constrained by land mass and topology, the amount of arable land, both regionally and globally, fluctuates due to human and climatic factors such as irrigation, deforestation, desertification, terracing, landfill, and urban sprawl.

In the past several decades, Ann Arbor has grappled with the effects of sharply rising land values, gentrification, and urban sprawl stretching into outlying countryside.

The land and money were divided among regional, urban, and village corporations.

Under the new system, most territorial authorities cover both urban and rural land.

The River Liffey bends at Leixlip from a predominantly east-west direction to a southwesterly route, and this point also marks the change from urban development to more agricultural land usage.

Political tensions with neighboring countries like Peru over mining and other resources to support the growing population, and struggles between the growing urban mestizo population and indigenous peoples over land and resources have underlined the political struggles in recent years.

However, the United States Forest Service estimates a net loss of about 2 million hectares ( 4, 942, 000 acres ) between 1997 and 2020 ; this estimate includes conversion of forest land to other uses, including urban and suburban development, as well as afforestation and natural reversion of abandoned crop and pasture land to forest.

The German word Land is the exact cognate of English land but it carries many political, constitutional, and historical meanings absent from the English term ( among other things a constituent state of the German Federal Republic, historically a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, but also " rural " as opposed to " urban ", etc .— the Swedish lantis equating to " country bumpkin " or " hick "— most of these meanings are borne by the Anglo-Norman word country in English ).

The lawn vs. garden issue is played out in urban planning as the debate over the " land ethic " that is to determine urban land use and whether hyper hygienist bylaws ( e. g. weed control ) should apply, or whether land should generally be allowed to exist in its natural wild state.

He gained support from the agrarian poor by reviving the land reform programme and from the urban plebeians with various popular measures.

* According to a 2006 survey of 1, 500 adults by Satio, a third of Belarusians use the Internet — 38 % of the urban population and 16 % of the rural population.

She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.

Methods for predicting the use of biological agents in urban areas as well as assessing the area for the hazards associated with a biological attack are being established in major cities.

In addition to the creation of bronze from raw materials and the widespread use of bronze tools and weapons, the period continued development of pictogramic or ideogramic symbols and proto-writing, and other features of urban civilization.

On 18 July 2007 it was reported that Cuba will receive 100 urban buses from Belarus before years end, destined for use in Havana.

Many of the skills involved in caving can also be put to use in mine exploration and urban exploration.

Bicycles are considered a sustainable mode of transport, especially suited for urban use and relatively shorter distances when used for transport ( compared to recreation ).

Utility cycling refers both to cycling as a mode of daily commuting transport as well as the use of a bicycle in a commercial activity, mainly to transport goods, mostly accomplished in an urban environment.

Defenders of coal-tar use in sealcoat have pointed out that humans are exposed to PAHs through many pathways, and similarly that the urban environment has many potential sources of PAHs.

Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use.

* Telephone system: The service has improved recently with the increased use of digital switching equipment, but better access to the telephone system is needed in some rural areas and easier access to pay telephones is needed by the urban public.

In at least two urban areas ( Maputsoe and Mafeteng ) a small number of transport entrepreneurs use carts or wagons with pneumatic tyres pulled mainly by single horses ( and occasionally by two donkeys or a mule ).

Scientists are researching the use of algae to produce liquid fuels, and bacteria to convert various forms of agricultural and urban waste into usable fuels.

The French-designed FlowAIR vehicles use compressed air stored in a cylinder to drive a reciprocating engine in a pollution-free urban vehicle.

Although siege warfare had moved out from an urban setting because city walls had become ineffective against modern weapons, trench warfare was nonetheless able to use many of the techniques of siege warfare in its prosecution ( sapping, mining, barrage and, of course, attrition ) but on a much larger scale and on a greatly extended front.

The concentration of factories in urban areas, the rapid growth of motorized traffic, and the widespread use of coal for heating during the severe winter months caused dangerous levels of air and water pollution, issues that still persist today even after years of environmentally friendly policies.

These techniques included house demolitions, collective punishments of towns, executions, population transfers, and the use of heavy armor in urban neighborhoods.

Living in an urban environment during childhood or as an adult has consistently been found to increase the risk of schizophrenia by a factor of two, even after taking into account drug use, ethnic group, and size of social group.

Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should be made.

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

In Iran, SYSTRA has done a " Tehran long term urban rail study ".

Prior to 1951, Communism lived within the urban labor forces in small study groups during 1944 to 1953 which it had a tremendous influence on these urban labor forces.

Settlement geography, including urban geography, is the study of urban and rural areas with specific regards to spatial, relational and theoretical aspects of settlement.

Significant fluxes of heat, matter, or momentum on time scales of less than a day are advected by turbulent motions .< ref > Garratt, J. R., < u > The atmospheric boundary layer </ u >, Cambridge University Press, 1992 ; ISBN 0-521-38052-9 .</ ref > Boundary layer meteorology includes the study of all types of surface – atmosphere boundary, including ocean, lake, urban land and non-urban land for the study of meteorology.

Archaeological surface surveys also allowed for the study of urban form in early Mesopotamian cities.

The computer-modeling study looked at a nuclear war between the two countries involving 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear devices on each side, producing massive urban fires and lofting as much as five million metric tons of soot about into the stratosphere.

Recent studies ( 2006 ) substantiate that smoke from urban firestorms in a local nuclear war would lead to long lasting global cooling but in a less dramatic manner than a global nuclear war, while a 2007 study of the effects of global nuclear war supported the conclusion that it would lead to full-scale nuclear winter.

These measurements can be used to locate weather fronts, monitor the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, determine the strength of tropical cyclones, study urban heat islands and monitor the global climate.

Indeed, the reverse impact of urban structure upon human behaviour and upon thought is evidenced by both observational study and historical record.

He developed an interest in urban design, and referencing only the resources available in the university library, he embarked on a study of Greek and Roman marketplaces.

Johnson created the Kerner Commission to study the problem of urban riots, headed by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner.

As a city, Vienna regularly hosts urban planning conferences and is often used as a case study by urban planners.

A 2005 study by Spanish researchers found that in urban areas households are willing to pay approximately four Euros per decibel per year for noise reduction.

The actual implementation was postponed until January 13, 1966, following the completion of a special study group report on the federal role in solving urban problems.

Archaeological surface surveys also allowed for the study of urban form in early Mesopotamian cities.

Sociolinguistics as a field distinct from dialectology was pioneered through the study of language variation in urban areas.

A study based on the transformations of urban life and systems as a result of neoliberalism in six countries of Latin America was published by Alejandro Portes and Bryan Roberts.