This is a book about the reality of place in America, the events and influences that led to the America we recognize today. It is a book about the growth of American cities and their suburbs during the twentieth century, about institutions and metropolitan governance, about real estate developm...
Mapped: The Anatomy of Land Use in America The United States is not just an economic and political giant on the global stage—the country also has one of the largest land masses at its disposal. Altogether, the country spans 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km²)—making it the thi...
The meaning of LAND is the solid part of the surface of the earth; also : a corresponding part of a celestial body (such as the moon). How to use land in a sentence.
The pumpkinseed sunfish, Lepomis gibbosus, originates from Eastern North America and was introduced to the Netherlands in 1902 as an aquarium and garden pond fish. At present the pumpkinseed is widely spread throughout the Netherlands and occurs in a variety of aquatic habitats. It is ...
This paper departs from the premise that land use is constantly changing as a result of the interaction of dynamic socio-economic and biophysical process. It presents an interim attempt to examine interaction between a range of spatial variables, derived from census information and from CIAT's envi...
The Greater Golden Horseshoe is one of the fastest growing regions in North America, with the GTAforecastto be home to 10.35 million people by 2051. As the population of our region continues to grow, managing the way we use our limited land becomes increasingly important. ...
阅读理解 Most states(州) in America use some of their land for state parks.Texas(得克萨斯州) has more than 200 states parks.At some state parks,visitors must pay to enter the park or camp there.This money helps pay park workers who take care of the land and keep it clean and safe....
Preliminary State-by-State estimates of the major uses of land in the United States in 1982 and a brief analysis of changes and trends in land use at the national level are presented. Cropland actually used for crops reached a record 390 million acres in 1981 but fell to a PIK-influ- ...
This is largely due to an uneven global distribution of urban land-use studies. A majority of studies focus on urbanizing regions in China, India, Europe, and the United States, but there are comparatively few studies of urban land-use change in South America, Africa, and the rest of the...
Land use and land cover change in forest frontiers: The role of household life cycles 2002, International Regional Science Review View all citing articles on Scopus∗ This is a revised version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America in San Francisco,...