Word: sprawl
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...inefficient manufacturers and companies that can't pass higher costs on to customers due to competitive or contractual constraints, a world of $40-per-barrel oil could prove distinctly inhospitable. The Chinese city of Yuyao, a sprawl of factories and warehouses about three hours from Shanghai, has been a center for the plastic trade and related light industry for more than three decades. Last year, the roughly 1,000 merchants in Yuyao's main commercial district did $1.7 billion in business, selling everything from granulated PVC to finished plastic products, such as grips for fishing rods and motorcycle windshields...
...springs, postcode 0852, consists of one establishment: the Wanda Inn roadhouse. But the petrol station?pub?motel, 300 km southwest of Katherine, has the feel of a small town. Within its tidy sprawl of accommodation blocks, trailers, caravans and tents - powered by a shed-sized generator and watered by an artesian well - manager Terry Jones and her seven staff (plus Spike the dog, Pickles the wallaroo and a resident python) host a shifting population of local cattlemen and Aborigines, road workers, tourists and truckers. Isolated the place may be, says Jones, a former hairdresser, but it's never lonely...
With his team huddled together, sheltered from both the elements and its fans, Walsh said that he hopes to more effectively instruct his players during the middle of the game, a goal that in the past was undermined by the sheer lack of space and their resulting sprawl...
Even more detailed evidence of the obesity-sprawl connection appears in a new study led by Lawrence Frank, a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Frank surveyed nearly 11,000 people in Atlanta, compiling their body mass indexes (BMIs) and correlating those figures with the characteristics of the neighborhood within a kilometer of their homes, including whether shops and services were mixed in among the homes. He asked participants to keep a travel diary for two days to record where they went and how they got there...
Sometimes the solution to an obesity-sprawl problem is a matter not just of reconfiguring a town but of rethinking its roadways. For instance, only 17% of all schoolchildren walk to school, according to research firm Belden Russonello & Stewart. "The vast majority of children live within one mile of school," says Rich Killingsworth, a professor at the University of North Carolina. "But only 28% of those children walk there." Killingsworth is director of the Active Living by Design program, which funds projects that help communities become more pedestrian friendly. Programs like Safe Routes to School find ways to make...