题目At the back of our house there was half a mu of vacant land(空地). "It's a pity to let it go to waste like that," Mother said. "Since you are all so fond of peanuts,let us open it up and make it a peanut garden." At that my brother,sister and I...
Financing Lenders always require more of a down payment from borrowers who are purchasing vacant land than they do from borrowers who are purchasing homes. While you may be able to purchase a home with as little as 3% down, most vacant land lenders require at least a 25% down payment. You...
Vacant Land Full of Possibilities ; Beckley Officials Are Trying to Figure out What to Do with Empty Land after 2012 FireLannom, Andrea
Urban vacant land in rapidly urbanized areas: Status, micro-level drivers, and implications The existence of vacant land is a worldwide phenomenon. However, few studies have used quantitative methods to focus on the micro-level drivers that cause ... C Xiong,Y Zhang,X Liu,... - 《Journal...
3-MINUTE READ In some of Brazil’s largest cities, vacant land is often filled with makeshift communities known as favelas. These areas are home to over 16 million people living in abject poverty across 10,000 favelas, where the unemployment rate exceeds 20%. Life in favelas can feel bleak...
When I first got my mailbox and I was trying to update my mailing address with all my banks… you know how many sites run your address through some sort of USPS address standardizer, and pop up a little thing saying “you entered this, and we slightly modified it to this… OK?” (...
Taxi drivers in a Chinese megacity are frequently exposed to traffic-related particulate matter (PM2.5) due to their job nature, busy road traffic, and urban density. A robust method to quantify dynamic population exposure to PM2.5 among taxi drivers is
On the subject of finance, Paris will spend between $4 billion and $5 billion in the staging of the Games, which sounds like a lot. But it’s about a third of the final bills for Rio 2016 and Tokyo ’20 and is downright stingy stacked up against, say, the $50 billion Russia commi...
s Victoria Theater once again, a project that took more than two decades, is making its debut at last. Since the year 2000, a coalition of government officials, community leaders, artists, designers, and engineers have been working to bring the vacant theater just steps away from theiconic ...
These examples point to an opportunity for activists to build a nationwide, democratic, localized, nonprofit alternative to corporate finance – and, where possible, begin to deprive it of the wealth that has become a stranglehold over our political system. If you don’t already have your money...