"Now you have the dilemma of how to combine three factors: the state, developers and society.
With the U.S. economy in its present state, developers may not have chosen the best time to introduce their product.
For example, the venerable Apache HTTP server provides a handful of ways to obtain its internal state, developers are limited to parsing log files or parsing the output of a status page (provided by mod_status).
The Gillans filed litigation against Adams County, RTD, and the out-of-state developer pushing for the move, alleging that the defendants violated local and state land use procedures.
Armed with three-inch research binders filled with information on RTD's latest controversy, she alleges the transit agency, together with Adams County and a private out-of-state developer, may have violated administrative, state, and federal laws through their quest to radically transform her community.
More out-of-state developers, who Mr. Shanahan thinks had been scared off by rent control, are coming to Massachusetts.
The whipping winds cursed by descendants of the original homesteaders now have real value for out-of-state developers who dream of wind farms or of selling the rights to bigger companies.
It reveals the transformative role of these developers in the symbolic sphere of urban image making: from being subordinate to the urban design requirements of the authority to their breaking away from the prescribed official framework and gaining the edge in the state-developer interplay.
A prime mover behind Dongtan was a former Shanghai Communist Party chief, Chen Liangyu, who steered the land into the hands of Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation, or SIIC, a state-owned developer, and lent his prestige to the project.
As an incentive, the state provides developers who redevelop a brownfield into a health center with tax credits of up to $500,000.
International banks provided vital funding to South Korea during its crisis in 1997 and to Dubai in 2009 when a state-owned developer almost defaulted.
