Iraq veteran Curtis Ridgeway, co-founder of Urban Improvement Construction, a real estate development, design and construction firm, discovered the Veterans Corporation center in St.
However, both are now seriously threatened by deforestation and invasive practices, including intensive mining and logging, extensive livestock activity, water pollution, degradation of headwaters, unregulated processes of urban settlement, construction of roads, waterways and dams, drainage and diversion of rivers, burning of forests and illegal fishing and trade in wildlife.
Additional carbon footprint savings will come from reduced office energy consumption, roadway repairs, urban heating, office construction, business travel and paper usage (as electronic documents replace paper).
FORBES: Marissa Mayer's Misstep And The Unstoppable Rise Of Telecommuting
Over 200 new urban rail lines are under construction around the world, but most are wholly government-financed.
But at the time, some politicians in Missouri's biggest cities complained that the Obama administration should have sent stimulus construction money to urban projects, rather than to an isolated bridge in a county with a very small population base.
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development also released March residential construction numbers this week.
FORBES: New Housing Data Shows A Springtime Bounce Back, Not A Double-Dip
We also kept things cool with a remarkable plan to transform frozen construction sites into event-hosting urban icebergs.
ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: of mirror cubes and urban icebergs
Since its inception in 2006, MeXvi has pioneered the assisted self-construction of homes in rural and semi-urban areas in over 13 states of Mexico, improving the quality of life of thousand of Mexicans.
Yet as suburban construction ended, cities continued building high-density urban housing--sometimes encouraged by city subsidies.
Grupo MeXvi, a leading provider in Mexico of integral solutions for self-construction of low-income homes in rural and semi-urban settings, and FOMEPADE a microfinance institution pioneering micro-mortgagees, are doing their best to change that, starting with millions of Mexicans.
Known as the Section 8 New Construction Projects grants, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development struck them as they became politically untenable.
FORBES: For the 21st Century, a Network of Beneficial Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship
New construction, forced to the periphery by restrictions and the high costs of urban development, will promote sprawl and dependence on expensive transportation options.
FORBES: How Is Federal Housing Policy Populist When Prices Are Rising?
The fact is that a driverless car would slash hundreds of billions of dollars of annual revenue, or even trillions, from all sorts of entities: car makers, parts suppliers, car dealers, auto insurers, auto financiers, body shops, emergency rooms, health insurers, medical practices, personal-injury lawyers, government taxing authorities, road-construction companies, parking-lot operators, oil companies, owners of urban real estate, and on and on and on.
FORBES: Google's Trillion-Dollar Driverless Car -- Part 2: The Ripple Effects
Major developments under way include one of Scotland's largest urban regeneration projects at Raploch and Forthside, the new 40-acre city centre quarter under construction on the waterfront, as well as a new sports village at Forthbank.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Tayside and Central | City launches new marketing drive
"While there has been a lot of activity in older parts of the city, a large part of the growth has been from construction in more suburban parts of the city, " says Steven Lebofsky, an urban development specialist who works in Kansas City's Urban Planning Department.
The technology in the Audi urban concept reflects the full capabilities of the brand, especially when it comes to ultra-lightweight construction.
ENGADGET: Audi's Urban Concept heads to IAA Frankfurt, tickles our EV sensibilities
Many urban residents have had their houses knocked down with inadequate compensation, to make way for government-backed construction projects.
ECONOMIST: Even in the People's Republic, property is no longer theft
应用推荐