Sentence examples for rampant building from inspiring English sources

Moreover, rampant building speculation in the 1950s and '60s led to construction without real planning or an eye toward conserving the unique nature of the city.

For years, Mecca's residents have lived with rampant building and development work as Saudi leaders seek to expand not just a holy site that received more than 2 million visitors during hajj last year, but the surrounding metropolis too.

Land speculation is rampant, but building so far has been somewhat modest and family-oriented.

Rampant road building has shattered the Earth's land into 600,000 fragments, most of which are too tiny to support significant wildlife, a new study has revealed.

One way that locals can be included in the economic benefits that hydropower dams bring, he said by e-mail, is through profit-sharing programs like those in Canada, where, after decades of rampant dam building, the aboriginal First Nation people have started to be paid an income from hydropower revenue.

Last week, The Guardian reported rampant road building across the globe has divided the Earth's land into 600,000 fragments, most of which are too small to support significant wildlife.

But when the eastern German real estate market collapsed because of rampant over-building nearly four years ago, losses mounted.

For example, in the fashionable resort of Sitges, outside Barcelona, asking prices for seafront flats are £500,000 or more – not far off their pre-crash peak – while in rather less sought-after Roquetas de Mar in Murcia, which saw rampant over-building, prices for a similar-sized flat start at around £25,000.