Energy development has turned much of Wyoming's sagebrush steppes into a network of roads, power lines and other development.
India's rapid development has turned former slums into sought-after addresses, and rising land values led many brothel owners to sell out.
Rapid development has turned fishing villages into factory towns and factory towns into financial hubs, but it has also taken a toll.
Noxious fumes, spills and development have turned much of the area into a wasteland, causing severe deforestation as well as desperate poverty.
Mark Carne, Network Rail chief executive, speaks enthusiastically of the capital discipline now imposed on a sector where all parties – including politicians eager for new development – had turned a blind eye to the maxed out credit card.
Mr. Macklowe, an unabashed property gambler, is also considered a real estate genius with a keen eye for development, having turned the G.M. Building across the street from the Plaza Hotel into a gold mine.
The story provides data and expert opinions backing up its thesis that climate change, the drought and "reckless development" have turned most of the American West into "a giant tinderbox".
"The west development program has turned into the west destruction," said Wu Dengming, whose environmental group, the Chongqing Green Volunteer Union, collected 15,000 petition signatures opposing the Nu dams.
A Manhattan development company has turned two shuttered walk-ups on Third Avenue between 99th and 100th Streets into 28 apartments and is to start putting up an apartment building soon on an adjacent empty lot.
The long hours I spent playing in those magical woods -- now long since obliterated by ticky-tacky condominium developments -- has turned me into a passionate environmentalist.
She's still interested in long songs with little development, but she has turned away from live-band studio jams; most of these tracks were made on a hard drive, hip-hop-style, by producers including Madlib, Shafiq Husayn and Taz Arnold, and 9th Wonder, with a few live instruments added.
