Even if a builder finds appropriate land that allows development, he must still contend with the building code.
Now archaeology is uncovering the land that allowed the earliest inhabitants to reach what would one day become Britain.
Relics of the colonial encomienda system, which supported a type of feudal landholding, led to an uneven distribution of land that allowed some 2 percent of the owners to control roughly 80 percent of the land.
There is a form of bigotry abroad in this land that allows otherwise decent people, including many liberals, to believe the most scurrilous tales if they are connected to an Italian-American name.
"You can no longer go to communities like Huntington, Smithtown and Commack and buy land that allows you to build at these prices," said Charles B. Mancini, vice president of the company.
The adobe house consisted of one small room and a small plot of land that allowed the family's livestock -several guinea pigs -- to run free.
As the Guardian of the Land, Princess Terra must use her powers to stop a greedy king from taking over the land that allows her people to lead healthy and balanced lives.
Instead of a system crash, there was a soft landing that allowed users to shut down in an orderly way.
One option is to adopt high yield, intensive farming that allows land to be spared elsewhere for conservation (land sparing); another is to adopt low yield, extensive farming over a greater area that retains more biodiversity and protects ecosystem services (wildlife-friendly farming).
Dr. David Moody Hopkins, an arctic geologist and leading authority on the land link that allowed ice age hunters to pursue their mammoth and mastodon prey from Siberia to Alaska nearly 12,000 years ago, died on Nov. 2 at his home in Menlo Park, Calif.
