Urban Lots

Much has been said and done about the many vacant urban lots that have become dumping grounds for everybody. The government fines people for not maintaining them and people hate them for they become so much of an eyesore and a haven for illegal drugs and many other criminal activities. People are hard at work [...]

Just as we love malls and other commercial areas with tins of parking to spare that does not drive you crazy in your daily battle for parking, studies in the US are finding that parking lots outnumber resident drivers by as much as 3 to 1. They also outnumber resident families by 11 to 1 [...]

Land use experts say that urban development is a sure sign of growth but scientists are telling them otherwise that that is not totally the case, for now. The resulting problems associated with urban development has been debated for quite sometime and scientists are beginning to utilize some of the most technologically advanced methods to [...]

In spite of the housing crisis, urban development has managed to gobble up a lot of previously rural lands even outside the suburbs. Fragmented land use such as developments that dot the landscape of previously fully agricultural land is continuing to mar the landscape and is sign that these areas will be inter-connecting soon resulting [...]

The technology is not cheap but with the price of oil going through the roof, people are starting to demand for options from the city government and themselves. From neighborhood recycling centers that gather unwanted goods and sell them for cash for use in the purchase or retro-fitting of their existing programs to re-use programs [...]

There are certain developments in today’s major city’s that are in accordance with the Leeds’s convention that was laid out by some of the best minds in design and urban development in hopes of turning buildings into greener more environmentally-friendly structures. Designs have begun to incorporate more technology that allows natural light to be maximized [...]

The heat islands that are created by urban developments such as previously pristine beaches turned into retirement communities are causing concern among scientists who have started to notice that they are telling the natural processes of heat exchange that results in rain and other natural weather phenomena to change forever. As a result of such [...]

As much as opposites attract, NASA says that our urban developments have been making our cities and other developed areas greener that usual due to the artificial heat islands we create. All structures in a city create a sort of micro-climate which alters the natural heat exchange mechanisms of the area. In cities, developments that [...]