More should be done to make landowners build houses on empty sites in London, according to the Guardian's London journalist Dave Hill.
Unlike run-of-the-mill farmhouses, which traditionally are on the small side and have living areas for both man and beast, case padronali are more formal — mini-villas usually built by landowners.
Wealthy landowners built country houses at Gilling East, Hovingham, and elsewhere.
Some planned villages were built by enterprising landowners in the 18th century.
European settlers were often required to build levees to establish homesteading claims; in recent decades, landowners built levees to create farmland by the hundreds of thousands of acres.
11 a.m. 5. FROZEN IN TIME During the henequen boom, when the agave plant was turned into rope for the world, Yucatán's aristocratic landowners built magnificent houses, many of them now luxury hotels.
The Ottos, accustomed to the tradition in which great landowners built and owned the churches on their estates as private property, treated Rome and all important sees in this spirit.
After slavery was abolished, freed African-Americans gravitated to Oak Bluffs, and in the 1930s, local black landowners built businesses and houses in the town, which was the only one on the island that welcomed blacks.
When we speak of Calcutta's architecture, we usually mean the colonial institutions that the British erected, or the aristocratic mansions of North Calcutta (once called the "Black Town" by the English) built by Bengali landowners.
A scruffy stream ran alongside little paddy fields, but in the Twenties, once Tokyo started to develop at a pace, the landowners built an ocean liner of a lido and sent someone to Wisley to study the plants to make a collection befitting this burgeoning interest in the west.
