exurbia

Until something is done beyond silence, which is exactly the dream deferred that Dent had witnessed on his southern journey, featureless exurbia and agro-industry, stripped of voices or stories, filled with the distant echoes of smart bombs broadcast through his car radio.

A-weighted sound pressure level time histories of [L.sub.pA,100ms] which in decibels characterise noise produced from road traffic usually are different for urban and exurbia cases as shown in Fig.

Near exurbia roads, the overall noise is not stable and time-history comprises individual vehicle passing by events as shown in Fig.

The motorway systems and services and 'exurbia' are perhaps straightforward to identify and appreciate as carscapes, but at what point a street or village becomes a carscape is much more problematic.

Early in To the Wonder, Marina (Olga Kurylenko), a Frenchwoman transposed from Paris to Oklahoman exurbia, beckons her (unnamed) boyfriend, a bemused Ben Affleck, by ceaselessly whirling and gamboling ahead of him through city streets and fields of grass, and apostrophizes a lonely cumulus: "What is this love that loves us?

Because of the mutually reinforcing decline in local agricultural production, increasing subdivision of farms, rising land prices and the influx of large numbers of(often semi-retired) urban residents to the Mary Valley over the past three to four decades, I classify the region as peri-urban rather than rural, even though it is commonly described as a rural region, or 'rural hinterland' in planning documents and regulatory frameworks (on processes such as counter-urbanisation, amenity migration and the development of 'exurbia' see e.g.

Here, Peck writes of the boom, then bust, of exurbia (areas 25 miles or more outside major cities); the impact of renters and foreclosures on communities, large drops in home values and the erosion of neighborhoods; the demographic changes resulting from foreclosures; the widespread use of houses as automated teller machines (ATMs) from 2000 to 2006, when home prices nearly doubled; the relaxation of credit standards; how real estate activities at the peak accounted for more than 25 percent of the local economy in cities such as Phoenix, Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida; the advent of surplus exurbia and the phenomenon of being stuck in place, unable to move; and the loss of optimism about the future as a result of the Great Recession.

Students who have been raised in exurbia or on a farm or in a fishing village could never think this way: they know that man is always-already in nature.

Our research is situated in the relatively affluent exurbia of a city in the Global North.

Bill fostered guitar Masses and small faith communities that challenged the sterile individualism of exurbia. He chose not to build a Catholic school, a deliberate decision made to encourage his flock to be part of the wider culture, not to educate their children in separate enclaves.

corporate governance, and the land use plans and processes in exurbia.

Enslin's story a pilgrimage from "Exurbia" to solitary life in the woods and his subsequent journey back is reminiscent of Thoreau.

then the movement of urban populations into suburbia and exurbia; then decrepit parks and lack of parking space; then television; and of course, there's always been weather.

Among the cases are Monsanto's genetically engineered wheat, salmon aquaculture and First Nations resistance in British Columbia, sustainable resource and environmental management strategy in Alberta, waste management in the Fundy region of New Brunswick, social inequality and brownfields redevelopment in downtown Toronto, and taking a stand in exurbia. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution.

Clearly, if more rational regulations (ranging from responsible residential zoning to steadily tightening vehicle mileage standards) had been in place between 1975 and 2005, the country would have avoided the enormous infra-structural burden of exurbia and of 20-mile-per-gallon SUVs, and average per-capita energy use might have already declined by an encouraging margin.