Sentence examples for blend of land from inspiring English sources
Its vision of "soft infrastructure," which would replace much of the city's aging concrete waterfront with a more porous blend of land and sea, is the most coherent model we have for a sustainable city in the current century — as well as one that would radically transform New York's Manhattan-centric identity by reorienting the city around its harbor.
The landscape, which was mostly covered with forest with interspersed shifting cultivation plots until the beginning of the colonial period, has gradually changed into a landscape with a blend of land uses.
It was a curious dish in its blending of land and sea, but utterly addictive, and so simple in its execution.
This would require a blend of changes in land use to increase the so-called land sink that captures carbon naturally and through new technologies.
Zhang Xin, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker, and her husband, Pan Shiyi, a real estate developer who also has a popular blog, have used a blend of marketing wizardry, savvy land deals and international architects to help create a huge fortune in just over a decade.
A little more than five years ago, this area on Tianjin's outskirts was a blend of nonarable saline and alkaline land that was virtually uninhabitable.
With the park's blend of state-owned and privately owned land — it has a resident population of about 135,000 — Ms. LaBastille's efforts were not universally appreciated.
