The phrase "a modern development in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing recent advancements or changes in a particular field or area of study.
Example: "The introduction of artificial intelligence has been a modern development in the field of technology."
Alternatives: "a contemporary advancement in" or "a recent innovation in".
PC Music has been hailed as a resolutely modern development in a musical world obsessed with nostalgia, but listening to Product, what's striking is how old-fashioned the ideas at its core seem.
Xamarin Studio features many of the features developers are asking for in a modern development environment, including code completion, a modern debugger and the ability to package and distribute apps right from within the IDE (including support for distribution iOS apps with TestFlight).
In the Greater London Plan of 1944 Sir Patrick Abercrombie had strongly recommended a halt to further modern development in Chesham and along the Chess Valley to preserve the sensitive local environment, and there was thus little prospect for growth in passenger numbers on the branch.
Large, expertly made color images by a Canadian photographer show industrial subjects like marble quarries in India, a tire dump in California and modern development in China.
Economic and political history, for example, often privileges the industrial revolution in England and the creation of the modern bureaucratic state in France, Britain, and Germany, as being exemplars of "modern" development in economics and politics.
Hence, much of the modern development in geomagnetic studies has become dependent on the accuracy in modeling oceanic electric currents, and the priority for better understanding the distribution of electrical conductivity in the ocean has risen.
Another modern development (in use in the Netherlands) is the creation of housing communities at the edges of wetlands with floating structures, restrained in position by vertical pylons.
The first modern development in Arbroath was the Abbey, founded by King William the Lion in 1178 for monks of the Tironensian order from Kelso Abbey.
This support was not spontaneous; its genesis depended on a charismatic leader; and it was made possible only by modern developments in communication and transportation.
