Sentence examples for wasteful building from inspiring English sources

Some of this frantic accumulation has been wasteful: building cities without citizens, and bridges without destinations.

But the government is moving cautiously after China's stimulus in response to the 2008 crisis fueled inflation and a wasteful building boom.

This would eliminate a lot of the wasteful building expenses that New York proposes for one frivolous 17-day party in 2012.

Councillor Jon Rogers, deputy leader of the authority, said: "The plans are built around saving money by spending much less on out of date, wasteful buildings and freeing us from expensive leases.

Valencia has become a symbol of wasteful spending, building projects in the boom years that now include a ghost airport and an almost deserted movie studio complex.

During the dotcom era, companies tried to reach new consumers with huge, wasteful brand-building advertising campaigns.

So big efficiency gains can come only from making existing buildings less wasteful.

Rather it was to be a set of guidelines for architects, engineers and others who want to make buildings less wasteful.

Critics of the new, more entrepreneurial aid industry such as the Dutch journalist Linda Polman, in her recent book War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times, see empire-building and wasteful competition as well as worthwhile altruism.

Environmentalists have tended to treat big buildings as intrinsically wasteful, because large amounts of energy are expended in their construction, and because the buildings place intensely localized stresses on sewers, power lines, and water systems.

This spree of public building was often wasteful and absurd.