Development - Land Use

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:

    “The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
    The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
    They rank’d us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
    Then yok’d us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
    Dieman’s Land.”
    —Unknown. Van Dieman’s Land (l. 9–12)

    “But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)