The good times ended in 1957, when land development in Delhi was nationalized.
Tycoons like Lee and Li remain powerful, of course, but land development is no longer Hong Kong's leading wealth-creator.
Land use in Japan is severely restricted by municipal zoning, agricultural land development, and fisheries and port management laws and regulations.
Those businesses now are mostly ports, infrastructure, land development and hotel operations.
The department said all its planning functions are carried out in complete accord with the Land Development Law and States approved planning policies.
"This is the biggest inner-city land development project in the country right now, " says Mark Lautman, Mesa del Sol's director of economic development.
Clinton performed in the 1980s on the Castle Grande land development in Arkansas, a project that became part of the Whitewater investigation headed by Starr.
Losses associated with commercial real estate, especially land development and residential building, were a major factor in the large number of U.S. bank failures since 2008.
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"The problems have been focused particularly on the construction and land development loans, and that's not a surprise, " says James Chessen, chief economist for the American Bankers Association.
Or the fabric manufacturer who suddenly becomes an expert in land development and now sits on expensive lots that people will not buy for even half of what he now owes the bank.
Conservation easements have been a powerful tool to protect land from development, and conservationists are lauding the new tax law for extending enhanced federal tax breaks for donating land development rights through 2013 (and retroactively back to Jan. 1, 2012).
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The prescription for Greece and others is a familiar one: relaxing the rules that govern jobs, wages and land development will allow the best enterprises to grow bigger and the duds to fail, boosting productivity, GDP growth and tax revenues.
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Overexposure to construction and development loans: The first guideline states that if loans for construction, land development and other land are 100% or more of total risk capital, the institution is considered to have loans concentrations above prudent risk levels, and should have heightened risk management practices.
Overexposure to construction and development loans: The first guideline states that if loans for construction, land development and other land are 100% or more of total risk capital, the institution is considered to have loan concentrations above prudent risk levels, and should have heightened risk management practices.
Overexposure to construction and development loans including loans secured by multifamily and commercial properties: If loans for construction, land development, and other land, and loans secured by multifamily and commercial property are 300% or more of total risk capital, the institution would also be considered to have a CRE concentrations above prudent levels, and should employ heightened risk management practices.
It is hoped the project will ease congestion in Lincoln and open up land for development.
Some studies predict that the Vineyard will run out of land for development by 2005, Nantucket by 2037.
Plot-holders on an allotment in Bristol are campaigning to save the land from development after its owner went bust.
But he says the key problem is not the companies - it is the supply of land for development.
The movement thrives in remote, often densely forested areas, especially where tribal people risk losing land to development projects.
One cruel irony is that, in a city pocked with abandoned properties, it is hard to find land for development.
For political, fiscal and environmental reasons, the government releases land for development very slowly, which sends property prices sky high.
Most communities today are located in the Sunbelt region in the South and West, where there is more land for development, according to Setha M.
In mid-August, the government announced new measures aimed at curbing rapid real estate price rises by restricting lending for luxury flats and increasing the supply of land for development.
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The practice of buying large gardens - or part of them - as land for development has been on the increase in Northern Ireland following the recent property boom.
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Two major reasons for this are the conversion of prime agricultural land into residential and commercial development and rising land prices in areas surrounding this increasing encroachment.
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Demand continues to outweigh the number of properties for sales, igniting investments and development land sales.
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But Mr. Papadakos also points out there is plenty of land available for development in most cities.
The land proposed for development is off Beggars Lane and borders Leicester Forest East, Enderby and Braunstone Town.
Local officials can convert collectively owned rural plots into land for private development.
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