sprawl

These silvery threads stretching around the dark globe create a dramatic spider's web showing the patterns of our global sprawl.

Where in the sprawl could I find the oddballs able to see through the glare and take advantage of the city's unmatched energy?

After days of days of hard exercise and practice, my son could sprawl slowly and stand up to shamble a bit eventually!

This can result in a sprawl of virtual resources that can easily get out of control if not monitored and managed effectively.

Americans are choosing to abandon the suburban sprawl in favour of a more comfortable, cheaper and greener life in the city centre.

Urban sprawl, housing and land use: To what extent have cities in Hainan grown in terms of economy, population, and land use?

Police crowded the spectators back to the viewing stand. Urban sprawl crowded the small farmers out of the immediate area.

Over thousands of years of civilization, the planet has been entirely enveloped by cityscapes and urban sprawl.

Michael crawls through the hole and into a narrow, but extensive service corridor. Metal catwalks and pipes sprawl in all directions.

Finally, the Keck telescope was used to confirm that these galaxies were at the same distance and part of the same galactic sprawl.

By the following afternoon more than 30 blocks had become consumed by the riot, transformed into a burning sprawl.

He flew backward off the stage, smashed into the wall, and slid down it to sprawl on the floor.

Modern crocodiles crawl on their bellies because their legs sprawl out to the side.

The desire to own cars and land accompanies this idea. This property craving is currently satiated via suburban sprawl and large houses.

sprawl: (AHD) Haphazard growth or extension outward, especially that resulting from real estate development on the outskirts of a city.

I prodded a pretty young marshmallow cretin girl with my crop and made her sprawl on the ground.

As they do so, they may turn decentralised sprawl into quilts of energetic suburbs with a community feeling.

Today's technologist needs to be flexible-oftentimes, we find ourselves away from the urban sprawl that affords us our wares!

From the top, Athens' urban sprawl stretches out in every direction.

If the galaxies within a cluster are the urban cores of the megacity , this gas is the suburban sprawl.

Outside of the sprawl, and a narrow equatorial band of starports, much of Ord Mantell remains very rural and low tech.

Lack of car ownership also means less urban sprawl, with most city dwellers concentrated in urban areas near the city center.

The rush for both sun and sprawl has now reversed, at least temporarily.

The issue of reconstruction aside, China's cities are also too big and there's a real problem with urban sprawl.

The women's interweaving stories sprawl across the chapters, and the loose organization may frustrate report writers.

The quantitative measures of urban sprawl can reflect whether the city planning is reasonable by its measure factors.

CONS: Higher-than-average housing costs, sluggish employment growth, accelerating urban sprawl and unplanned development, long winters.

Sand dunes sprawl along the coast of northeastern Brazil, sometimes extending kilometers inland.

Finding your way about Cairo's vast sprawl is not as difficult as it may seem.

He says in many parts of America, the problem is urban sprawl, as cities expand in vast suburban housing tracts.

Behaviors that were adaptive for our hunter-gatherer ancestors may not be adaptive for the denizens of urban sprawl.

Karachi is mostly made up of flat or rolling plains with hills on the western and northern boundaries of the urban sprawl.

DRIVING along South Street, where the Los Angeles sprawl meets sprawling Orange County, you enter and leave Cerritos three times.

Here in the heart of the sprawl, I'd found, well, heart.

With the rapid economic development, and acceleration of urbanization, many cities in China began to appear urban sprawl.

A sprawl of thousands of Atlantic walruses covers a haul-out site in Alaska's Togiak National Wildlife Refuge.

Wind-sculpted dunes sprawl across the Sesriem and Sossusvlei dune area in Namibia's Namib Desert.

It shows the extent of our civilisation, the patterns of our global sprawl, how human-influenced our planet now is.

They fear the party may lose ground with moderate middle-class types who dislike urban sprawl and unfettered oil-drilling.

The biggest urban sprawl of all, Los Angeles, the center of a massive entertainment industry.

The problems of urban sprawl, unreasonable land use will bring extreme pressure on city security, urban health and urban development.

plant, which later becomes the site for the cities second phase, allowing for urban growth yet avoiding low density sprawl.

The pattern in most Chinese cities, however, is one of sprawl.

Linking Transport and Land Use. . . ergo, Growing Smart Smart growth is an antidote to sprawl.

The natural course of rivers, streams, and lakes has been compromised by centuries of damming, diversion , sprawl, and industrial pollution.

Urban sprawl has recently been thought to have negative effects on people's well-being.

I sometimes come into that room in the evening, sprawl in an armchair, and review my trades, one after another.

Even in the suburbs and urban sprawl, fearful people live behind thin walls, numbing themselves by perpetuating empty lives from day to day.

The marsupial has no natural predator but has been in decline for decades due to urban sprawl and from car accidents and dog attacks.

One reform above others would help: to unravel the spider's web of corporate shareholdings that institutionalizes the sprawl.

Sprawl is first and foremost about pavement leading to all those subdivisions, strip malls and suburbs.

The effect of car-reliant transportation systems on cities is " urban sprawl " -- undesirable horizontal rather than vertical growth.

It reduces the industrial sprawl office spaces and the associated resources of heating, cooling, and cleaning up after office staff.

The new simple facade stands apart from today's chaotic urban sprawl, yet still resonates with the region's historic fabric.

Explanation: Curtains of shimmering green light sprawl across this gorgeous night skyscape.

Today Zhili is a sprawl of low-slung buildings, a mix of family businesses in narrow alleys and larger factory complexes.

Transit costs are high because Houston has few policies hindering sprawl, which in turn allows for cheaper housing.

It is a sprawl, mostly built in the past 10 or 20 years and with a curious feeling of Los Angeles about it: malls, villas and freeways.

baltimore ' s little italy is about half the size it once was . new development and urban sprawl now surround it.

His legs sprawl out in V while he was watching TV.

Explanation: Constellations of lights sprawl across this night scene, but they don't belong in the skies of planet Earth.

Kuwait's urban fabric mostly consists of detached single-family homes highlighting a clear example of city-sprawl.

Mr Glaeser hopes, for the planet's sake, that China and India choose density over sprawl and public transit over the car.

Illegality. A series of interventions by the Supreme Court has revealed the extent of unplanned urban sprawl.

Ecosystem service evaluation provides new vision for urban sprawl control.

In some cities now, because of urban sprawl the local authorities have reduced the size of the land required for housing.

This sprawl of wilderness is home to world's largest concentration of zebras, hippos and giraffes.

In fact, in many of the continent's most fertile river basins, urban sprawl is consuming growing quantities of prime rice-farming land.

But as ever more fish-and-gun megastores sprawl along America's highways, some wonder about overkill.

The rapid sprawl of gated community has put great influences on urban society-space structure.

In Shanghai, Beijingers point out smugly, you can drive for three hours and still be trapped in urban sprawl.

Now skyscrapers sprawl hundreds of metres further into the harbour.

Unlike the upward and outward sprawl of Dubai or Abu Dhabi, Masdar is compact like ancient Arab cities.

Escape from urban sprawl to the pure tranquillity of the outdoors.

The sociologist Richard Sennett, meanwhile, is concerned about the problems of sprawl.

They contribute to urban sprawl. They encourage materialism.

Dweller's in home usually burns once lighting a fire violent, fire sprawl is quick, full of smog.

It makes sense for businesses to sprawl because the Indian state is still pathetically weak.

Virtual machine life-cycle management and uncontrolled generation of VMs - virtual machine sprawl is the third major concern.

Reduce urban sprawl by capping the home mortgage interest deduction.

They also suggest that airports can help reverse suburban sprawl.

Cars have an embedded bias toward suburban sprawl; guns, an embedded bias toward killing people.

We will need to radically re-think how we manage our cities, including halting urban sprawl, and plan for proximity rather than mobility.

We discovered two great hikes only minutes from the downtown sprawl.

There are two approaches of urban growing: one is the neighborly community, the other is the suburb sprawl.

Growth in population has also contributed to urban sprawl.

Mr. Tang sold his house and rented a room nearby in Hengjie, a once-rural town that has become absorbed into Hangzhou's industrial sprawl.

China's expanding deserts now cover one-third of the country because of overgrazing, deforestation, urban sprawl and drought.

The 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center tower yields an unmatched view of the city's urban sprawl.

Currently, local police just grasp to catch to the thug sprawl.

An orphan, Ak-rev spent time in the urban sprawl of Al-Campur, where he entered the underworld of crime through a street gang.

Los Angeles has long epitomised car-oriented sprawl.

As long as Americans want to own homes, the South and suburban sprawl will retain a certain appeal.

A world of varied terrain, Ord Mantell's continent of Worlport boasts a sprawl of cities along its southern shore.

Urban sprawl is paving over fertile land in the East .

Recession has slowed the rush to sun and sprawl.

Its studios and offices sprawl over 100 acres and continue to expand.

A country landscape that was defiled by urban sprawl.

Today's sprawl of track will make way for new "carbon-neutral" neighbourhoods.

With limbs a-sprawl and empty faces pale.

I couldn't tear her away from the sprawl of rose displays.

Go out and campaign against urban sprawl, Hummers, coal power plants, and whaling -- but leave people alone.

Their expansion drives economic growth but also leads to urban sprawl, rising inequalities and urban unrest.

More urban sprawl under a new moniker (NU) doesn't cut it.

He is lying in a sprawl on the bed.

Chongqing, which is sometimes called "the Vertical City, " is an example of Chinese high-rise sprawl.

Or do you like to sprawl across a long seat that buoys you up as if bobbing on a salty sea?

Urban fringe is the transition belt between the urban and rural, which is the most active part in urban sprawl process.

The marsupial has been in decline for decades due to urban sprawl and from car accidents and dog attacks.

The third, related, area is sprawl, which is promoted, especially in America, by flawed policies nationally and locally.

Turban Sprawl (a very funny wordplay, combining a term describing the tendency of cities to spread out with an exotic headdress)

He lay in a sprawl over the desk.

Searching for A Solution to Urban Sprawl: Policy Instruments and Evaluation of Growth Management

The rural-urban collision and coordination in the context of urban space sprawl of American metropolitan areas

SPRAWL Increased Vehicle Ownership Dispersed Development Pattern

Urban Spatial Sprawl Pattern and Metrics in South of Jiangsu Province along the Yangtze River

Mechanism Analysis on the Industrial Land Sprawl of Small Town--The Case Study on Tongcheng County and Xiantao City of Hubei

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Technique of pyrosynthesis self-sprawl inorganic pigment

urban sprawl and construction of resource - efficient cities

Toronto's Environment: A Discussion on Urban Sprawl and Atmospheric Impacts

A Case Study of Efficiency of Land Sprawl in Small Towns

Revitalizing The City: Strategies To Contain Sprawl And Revive The Core

Impacts of urban landscape structure on urban sprawl: A case researches in Nanchang

Patterns and Characteristics of Industrial Land Sprawl in Small Towns

Losing It All To Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape

Increase of urban sprawl due to mobility and service society

In Holland, the Pressures of American Style Urban Sprawl

Ugly, ever-expanding Israeli settlements sprawl on the West Bank's hilltops;

Research on the Formation and Control of China's Urban Sprawl from the Viewpoint of Land Institution

Loll on beds inlaid with ivory and sprawl over the couches

Study on Controlling Town Land Sprawl in Foreign Countries

A review on urban sprawl and smart growth research in Western country

the mechanism and adjustment of urban sprawl of guangzhou

Suburbs that sprawl out into the countryside

The Review of the Measurement of Urban Sprawl

sprawl v. spread; stretch out

The area of urban sprawl

A Field Guide To Sprawl

Urbanization Process and Spatial Sprawl in China

We can design techniques to prevent urban sprawl, but we can hardly create utopias from scratch at this late date