Imagine a housing development squeezed between, say, a flower market and meat-packing factory.
Since 1996, the government has been choking off residential development, squeezing the number of new home building permits to just 102 in the past three years.
If you want to see a whole day of development squeezed down into four minutes, watch the video below.
For really large amounts of data, storage capacity is no longer measured in gigabytes, terabytes or petabytes, but rather by the size of the warehouses needed for the discs, cartridges or tapes that carry them.But a new storage technology, which will go on sale in the next few weeks after years of development, can squeeze more onto a small disc or cartridge than ever before.
There's growing concern that the newer and pricier developments will squeeze out small businesses.
Soaring development costs squeezed out small publishers and stifled creativity.
Other say the development is squeezing out the residents of surrounding neighborhoods, like Overtown, Miami's historic black area, with little concern for including low-cost housing.
For low-ranking universities these developments will squeeze profits, as they struggle with a perfect storm of declining enrolments, downward pressure on tuition fees and cuts in funding.
As a growing human population and economic development keep squeezing tigers out of their remaining habitats, clashes are increasing with deadly frequency.
While such relaxation would be positive news for a development sector squeezed by the credit crunch and falling demand, it would be an own goal if it encouraged us to slip into "default mode" on inner-city regeneration.
