Sentence examples for sprawling developments from inspiring English sources

Sprawling developments cutting into mountain lions' habitat first fired his imagination.

His company is best known for its prime properties throughout China, including 72 Wanda Plazas – sprawling developments that usually include shopping centres, hotels and cinemas.

Three paintings are in Mr. Schumann's more familiar style: finely outlined cartoon landscapes with sprawling developments of rubbery architecture, roadways, cars and trucks.

Dalian Wanda is best-known for its real estate throughout China, including 72 Wanda Plazas, sprawling developments that usually include shopping malls, hotels and cinemas.

Who, apart from Werner Herzog, would think of loading an old North Carolina plantation house onto a truck and moving it away from encroaching strip malls and sprawling developments?

It is still common to think that horizontality is more or less incompatible with density and verticality: Los Angeles is exhibit No. 1, followed by sprawling developments across the country.

Or the fact that thousands of acres of United States farmland — and deer habitat — are lost to sprawling development every day.

Population growth in central Florida has increased sinkhole activity, by lowering groundwater levels, and sprawling development has placed more people and property at risk.

Even for cities already locked into sprawling development, transport connectivity can be significantly improved through options like bus rapid transit (BRT) systems.

While agreeing on the scope of the problem of sprawling development, representatives of the building industry disagree that the solution is more federal money for preserving farmland.

The 17-year locust will not be seen again until 2018, but with the onslaught of sprawling development, its habitat is disappearing, zoologists say.