Word: sprawl
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Greening house by house is already catching on--the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) extended its Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) rating system to residences to meet the interest in more environmentally friendly homes. But the next steps will be tougher. The sprawl of the suburbs has ensured that much of the energy we consume--and carbon we emit--comes from our dependence on cars. Until we change the layout of our neighborhoods--reversing the suburban ideal of semi-isolated homes--living green won't be easy. "Having a green neighborhood and a green home are two different things...
ALICIA G. HARLEY '08: An Ancient City's Sprawl...
This summer, Alicia G. Harley ’08 investigated the possible environmental, economic, and social effects of different proposals to alleviate sprawl around Cairo, an ancient city facing the paradoxes of modern urban development...
According to Harley, complex zoning laws have in part caused middle and lower-class Egyptians to construct many “illegal” residences squeezed next to each other on arable land. The problems associated with sprawl affect all Cairenes, since these “suburbs” occupy land that could be used to feed Egypt’s swelling population. Cairo is Africa’s largest city...
After hours of driving through southern Nepal, the Maoist cantonment proves remarkably easy to find. Red pennants adorn trees and street lamps along miles of dirt road that winds through rice paddies and fields of yellow mustard, ending by a sprawl of ramshackle enclosures and wood huts. There's little sign of military menace as goats and pigs loll around on grass knolls - that's before we near the sandbags of an outer bunker where a young woman in fatigues, who appears to be of school-going age, turns her machine gun in our direction and fixes us with...