Land Use
- Green development, a concept that includes consideration of community-wide or regional environmental implications
- Land development, altering the landscape in any number of ways
- Mixed-use development, the practice of allowing more than one type of use in a building or set of buildings
- Real estate development, a business encompassing activities from renovation to the purchase of raw land
- Subdivision (land), or a development, a piece of land divided from a larger portion for sale or further development
- Urban planning, or development, integrates land use planning and transportation planning to improve communities
- Transit-oriented development, a mixed-use residential or commercial area designed to maximize access to public transport
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Famous quotes containing the word land:
“Every time we get near the land you get that look on your face. When a man goes to sea, he ought to give up thinking about things on shore. Land don’t want him no more. I’ve had me share of things go wrong and all come from the land. Now I’m through with the land and the land’s through with me.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 3:7,8.