Sentence examples for piecemeal development from inspiring English sources

Despite initial concerns from objectors that the tunnels would collapse under the weight of the traffic overhead, a piecemeal development process over the next 150 years saw the Tube develop into a vast network that today sees almost four million passengers a day travelling across 270 stations.

Piecemeal development has created short-term hiccups as well.

Local actors tend to produce piecemeal development that directly supports neighborhood-level activity.

But Mr. Broad said that piecemeal development of the city- and county-owned sites would have been a mistake.

"But you could say the same thing about the piecemeal development going on in London and Manchester now," Dodge insists.

Before it does, it needs to be strengthened to prohibit even piecemeal development in this sensitive region.

The updated bulletin welcomes a new political focus on cities but warns against too much piecemeal, kitsch development, as well as low standards ('we have the worst standards of contemporary housing in the whole of western Europe'), too many overlapping regeneration bodies, plus the lack of real city and regional power, and the continued trend towards monocultural enclaves.

Every day, piecemeal evolution.

But if Epstein really wants to have a larger discussion about "the economic health of the region," then we should all start by talking about how the piecemeal approach to development and pocketbook planning in the LA region, where developers and special interests have long been given the run of the city, have negatively affected the entire region.

The concept is top-down but preaches piecemeal, bottom-up development and reuse.

"This applies as much to the creeping threats to our woods from a succession of pests and diseases, gradual climate change and piecemeal erosion by development.