To the concept of resource are related aquifers, significant points of collecting water, public transport networks, redevelopment and urban regeneration, the disused industrial areas or areas of potential conversion.
SAGE advocates for farmland at the edges of urban centers, particularly disused urban areas like Detroit, Mich.
The chief promoter of mixed-income neighborhoods in New Orleans is Pres Kabacoff, whose company, HRI Associates, specializes in transforming disused industrial areas into trendy residential neighborhoods.
Around our towns, in old industrial areas, disused railway sidings, fields cut off by new bypasses, wildlife creeps in as humans turn their backs.
Recurring answers include areas adjoining the railway station, isolated parking lots, dark underpasses, gatherings of aggressive-looking individuals, neglected building sites, disused property and areas, redundant roundabouts and road traffic, the frequent interruption of bike paths.
The more the authorities look, the more they find: huge conglomerations of everything from tyres and nappies to chicken carcasses and hazardous chemicals, dumped in conservation areas, disused quarries, fake recycling sites and even nestled amid the sprawl of major city centres.
The school also organized an effort to win money from an online competition to fix up a disused outdoor area into a garden it is calling a "kinder" (rhymes with minder) garden.
But those states refused to take the refugees, and the animals remained in captivity, enraging wildlife protection agencies, until a disused mine area on the fringe of the city was declared a sanctuary.
Two years ago, Mr. Jerde completed Canal City, a futuristic mall with hotels, shops and explosive fountains in a canyon of buildings snaking along a newly created canal in a disused industrial area in Fukuoka, Japan.
