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Some cool land development images:

Borstel - "Altes Land"


Image by tdietmut
Het “Altes Land” is een Duits gebied langs de Elbe, direct ten zuidwesten van de stad Hamburg. Het ligt aan de zuidelijke oever van de Elbe, tussen Stade en Buxtehude. Het gebied omvat ook Jork, de Samtgemeinde Lühe en delen van zuid-Hamburg (Neuenfelde, Cranz, Francop en Finkenwerder).
Het Altes Land is waarschijnlijk het grootste aaneengesloten fruitteeltgebied in Centraal-Europa. De regio omvat zo'n 143 km². Ongeveer tweederde van het fruitteeltgebied bestaat uit appelbomen. Kersenbomen staan op de tweede plaats; zo'n 13% van de fruitbomen bestaat uit verschillende kersensoorten.
De naam Altes Land is een verbastering van de Nedersaksische naam Olland voor dit gebied, een verwijzing naar de Nederlandse kolonisten die het gebied in de middeleeuwen inpolderden. In 1113 sloot aartsbisschop Frederik I van Bremen een verdrag met Nederlandse kolonisten om het moerasachtige gebied te omdijken en in te polderen. Priester Hendrik uit het Zuid-Hollandse Rijnsaterwoude wordt gezien als de stichter van het Altes Land. In Steinkirchen, een dorp in het Altes Land, staat een standbeeld van Priester Hendrik, en in Rijnsaterwoude staat een kopie van dit standbeeld.
“Altes Land” is an area of reclaimed marshland straddling parts of Lower Saxony and Hamburg. The region is situated downstream from Hamburg on the southwestern riverside of the Elbe around the towns of Stade, Buxtehude, Jork and the Samtgemeinde of Lühe. In Hamburg it includes the quarters of Neuenfelde, Cranz, Francop and Finkenwerder.
The region – the biggest contiguous fruit orchard in Central Europe – extends over 143 km2 (55 sq mi). 76.8% of the trees are apples, 12.7% are cherries.[1] The areas closest to the Elbe are those with the highest population. They include the most fertile marshlands; towards Geest the area connects to fens.
The fertile land led to the development of a culture dominated by farming. The villages are known as Marschhufendörfer, a special kind of village where the farmyards are set along a street with the land directly behind them. A characteristic feature is the richly-decorated half-timbered farmhouses with their elaborate gateways.
vlgs.Wikipediaa

Borstel - "Altes Land"


Image by tdietmut
Het “Altes Land” is een Duits gebied langs de Elbe, direct ten zuidwesten van de stad Hamburg. Het ligt aan de zuidelijke oever van de Elbe, tussen Stade en Buxtehude. Het gebied omvat ook Jork, de Samtgemeinde Lühe en delen van zuid-Hamburg (Neuenfelde, Cranz, Francop en Finkenwerder).
Het Altes Land is waarschijnlijk het grootste aaneengesloten fruitteeltgebied in Centraal-Europa. De regio omvat zo'n 143 km². Ongeveer tweederde van het fruitteeltgebied bestaat uit appelbomen. Kersenbomen staan op de tweede plaats; zo'n 13% van de fruitbomen bestaat uit verschillende kersensoorten.
De naam Altes Land is een verbastering van de Nedersaksische naam Olland voor dit gebied, een verwijzing naar de Nederlandse kolonisten die het gebied in de middeleeuwen inpolderden. In 1113 sloot aartsbisschop Frederik I van Bremen een verdrag met Nederlandse kolonisten om het moerasachtige gebied te omdijken en in te polderen. Priester Hendrik uit het Zuid-Hollandse Rijnsaterwoude wordt gezien als de stichter van het Altes Land. In Steinkirchen, een dorp in het Altes Land, staat een standbeeld van Priester Hendrik, en in Rijnsaterwoude staat een kopie van dit standbeeld.
“Altes Land” is an area of reclaimed marshland straddling parts of Lower Saxony and Hamburg. The region is situated downstream from Hamburg on the southwestern riverside of the Elbe around the towns of Stade, Buxtehude, Jork and the Samtgemeinde of Lühe. In Hamburg it includes the quarters of Neuenfelde, Cranz, Francop and Finkenwerder.
The region – the biggest contiguous fruit orchard in Central Europe – extends over 143 km2 (55 sq mi). 76.8% of the trees are apples, 12.7% are cherries.[1] The areas closest to the Elbe are those with the highest population. They include the most fertile marshlands; towards Geest the area connects to fens.
The fertile land led to the development of a culture dominated by farming. The villages are known as Marschhufendörfer, a special kind of village where the farmyards are set along a street with the land directly behind them. A characteristic feature is the richly-decorated half-timbered farmhouses with their elaborate gateways.
vlgs.Wikipediaa

Borstel - "Altes Land"


Image by tdietmut
Het “Altes Land” is een Duits gebied langs de Elbe, direct ten zuidwesten van de stad Hamburg. Het ligt aan de zuidelijke oever van de Elbe, tussen Stade en Buxtehude. Het gebied omvat ook Jork, de Samtgemeinde Lühe en delen van zuid-Hamburg (Neuenfelde, Cranz, Francop en Finkenwerder).
Het Altes Land is waarschijnlijk het grootste aaneengesloten fruitteeltgebied in Centraal-Europa. De regio omvat zo'n 143 km². Ongeveer tweederde van het fruitteeltgebied bestaat uit appelbomen. Kersenbomen staan op de tweede plaats; zo'n 13% van de fruitbomen bestaat uit verschillende kersensoorten.
De naam Altes Land is een verbastering van de Nedersaksische naam Olland voor dit gebied, een verwijzing naar de Nederlandse kolonisten die het gebied in de middeleeuwen inpolderden. In 1113 sloot aartsbisschop Frederik I van Bremen een verdrag met Nederlandse kolonisten om het moerasachtige gebied te omdijken en in te polderen. Priester Hendrik uit het Zuid-Hollandse Rijnsaterwoude wordt gezien als de stichter van het Altes Land. In Steinkirchen, een dorp in het Altes Land, staat een standbeeld van Priester Hendrik, en in Rijnsaterwoude staat een kopie van dit standbeeld.
“Altes Land” is an area of reclaimed marshland straddling parts of Lower Saxony and Hamburg. The region is situated downstream from Hamburg on the southwestern riverside of the Elbe around the towns of Stade, Buxtehude, Jork and the Samtgemeinde of Lühe. In Hamburg it includes the quarters of Neuenfelde, Cranz, Francop and Finkenwerder.
The region – the biggest contiguous fruit orchard in Central Europe – extends over 143 km2 (55 sq mi). 76.8% of the trees are apples, 12.7% are cherries.[1] The areas closest to the Elbe are those with the highest population. They include the most fertile marshlands; towards Geest the area connects to fens.
The fertile land led to the development of a culture dominated by farming. The villages are known as Marschhufendörfer, a special kind of village where the farmyards are set along a street with the land directly behind them. A characteristic feature is the richly-decorated half-timbered farmhouses with their elaborate gateways.
vlgs.Wikipediaa

Nice Land Development photos

A few nice land development images I found:

Hunting for land mines in Sri Lanka


Image by DFID - UK Department for International Development
Saila, a 29-year-old mother of two, is one of a growing number of women in Sri Lanka that have been recruited and trained by the UK de-mining charity HALO Trust - supported by UKaid funding from the Department for International Development.

Working seven hours a day in the baking heat, manual de-mining is slow, painstaking work. Scanning a square metre at a time with a metal detector, every beep over a certain strength means a slow, careful dig into the parched, solid earth - finger-tip work in case she’s found another mine. Working alongside men, with equal status, dozens of women like Saila are slowly helping clear mines from hundreds of acres of prime rice-producing land.

There are an unknown number of land mines littering the once verdant landscape of the Vanni. They’re a deadly legacy of the violent 26-year-long conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or ‘Tamil Tigers’) movement, which finally ended in May 2009. Saila knows all too well just how violent this conflict was; it cost her husband his life:

"I used to work as a co-ordinator in a rehabilitation centre, but had to leave because of the conflict. Then my husband was killed in the fighting. Now my mother has to look after my daughters, while I do this work”.

To read more about Saila's story, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/Media-Room/Case-Studies/2010/Landmine-lad...

For more on the HALO Trust, visit: www.halotrust.org

Image © Russell Watkins / Department for International Development

Downer Avenue Development


Image by davereid2
Contentious Downer Ave. Parking Garage Rises
Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee February 14, 2008 Meeting Notes…

Nice Land Development photos

Some cool land development images:

Something About George


Image by danny.hammontree
The Umoja Village Shantytown was founded on October 23, 2006 in the Liberty City section of Miami, Florida in response to a crisis of gentrification and low-income housing gripping Miami, Florida, considered one of the least affordable cities in the United States.

After months of planning, a group calling itself Take Back the Land seized control of a vacant lot on the corner of 62nd St. and NW 17th Ave. The lot sat vacant for approximately 8 years after low income housing there was demolished by the City of Miami. Take Back the Land erected several tents and then built wood frame shanties in order to provide housing for otherwise homeless people in the area.

Police, City of Miami and Miami-Dade County officials were unable to evict the residents or organizers due to the landmark 1996 Pottinger Settlement. After years of arresting homeless people essentially for being homeless, the Miami ACLU sued the city of Miami, who eventually settled. In the settlement, the city agreed that homeless people could not be arrested if they met three criteria:

1. The individual is homeless;
2. the individual is situated on public land;
3. there are no beds available at homeless shelters in the city;
4. the individual is engaged in life sustaining conduct, such as eating, sleeping, bathing, responding to calls of nature, congregating and building temporary structures to protect one's self from the elements. (Pottinger Settlement)

Take Back the Land exploited the legal settlement to build a shantytown in Miami, Florida.

By the end of December, Umoja Village housed approximately 50 otherwise homeless people and made the news in the Miami Herald, the Los Angeles Times, Time.com and the New York Times, as well as a number of documentaries and blogs.

Residents ran the Village, voting to build, distribute donations, move in new residents and evict others.

Umoja Village enjoyed broad support in the community, and, therefore, was able to successfully repel numerous attempts by government officials to evict them.

Take Back the Land organizer Max Rameau, of the Center for Pan-African Development, argued that the Umoja Village was not just about gentrification, but was a fullland struggle, in the mold of Brazil's MST, the Landless Workers' Movement and similar movements in South Africa. As an advocate of Pan-Africanism, Rameau asserted black people should control the land in the black community, as manifested by Umoja Village.

The Village itself was built with the help of local white anarchists, operating under the black political leadership of Take Back the Land.

On April 23, 2007, Umoja Village celebrated it's 6 month anniversary by announcing several campaigns, including the replacement of the wood shanties with more durable hexayurts (Autonomous building); building a water well; engaging in local anti-gentrification and pro-housing campaigns; demanding legal rights to the land from the City of Miami; and plans to acquire land and build low-income housing.

On April 26, 2007, on the day the first hexayurts were scheduled to be built, Umoja Village burned to the ground in a mysterious fire. There were no casualties or injuries. Miami police arrested 11 residents and activists for attempting to remain on the land and the City erected a barbed wire fence around the property that same day.

In order to avoid protests, the City offered Take Back the Land the property in order to build low-income housing before reneging on the offer under pressure from local power brokers and lobbyists. (Miami Herald, July 27, 2007)

On October 23, 2007, Take Back the Land announced it identified vacant public and private foreclosed homes and moved families into some of those homes, in a move it calls liberating housing. As of February 2008, Take Back the Land had a waiting list of 14 families waiting to move into one of those homes.

In February, Max Rameau released a book detailing the experience. The book is entitled Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown.

What: Umoja Village
Where: Liberty City, Miami, Florida USA
When: October 2006 through April 2007
Click here for more information on Umoja Village

Warmth


Image by danny.hammontree
The Umoja Village Shantytown was founded on October 23, 2006 in the Liberty City section of Miami, Florida in response to a crisis of gentrification and low-income housing gripping Miami, Florida, considered one of the least affordable cities in the United States.

After months of planning, a group calling itself Take Back the Land seized control of a vacant lot on the corner of 62nd St. and NW 17th Ave. The lot sat vacant for approximately 8 years after low income housing there was demolished by the City of Miami. Take Back the Land erected several tents and then built wood frame shanties in order to provide housing for otherwise homeless people in the area.

Police, City of Miami and Miami-Dade County officials were unable to evict the residents or organizers due to the landmark 1996 Pottinger Settlement. After years of arresting homeless people essentially for being homeless, the Miami ACLU sued the city of Miami, who eventually settled. In the settlement, the city agreed that homeless people could not be arrested if they met three criteria:

1. The individual is homeless;
2. the individual is situated on public land;
3. there are no beds available at homeless shelters in the city;
4. the individual is engaged in life sustaining conduct, such as eating, sleeping, bathing, responding to calls of nature, congregating and building temporary structures to protect one's self from the elements. (Pottinger Settlement)

Take Back the Land exploited the legal settlement to build a shantytown in Miami, Florida.

By the end of December, Umoja Village housed approximately 50 otherwise homeless people and made the news in the Miami Herald, the Los Angeles Times, Time.com and the New York Times, as well as a number of documentaries and blogs.

Residents ran the Village, voting to build, distribute donations, move in new residents and evict others.

Umoja Village enjoyed broad support in the community, and, therefore, was able to successfully repel numerous attempts by government officials to evict them.

Take Back the Land organizer Max Rameau, of the Center for Pan-African Development, argued that the Umoja Village was not just about gentrification, but was a fullland struggle, in the mold of Brazil's MST, the Landless Workers' Movement and similar movements in South Africa. As an advocate of Pan-Africanism, Rameau asserted black people should control the land in the black community, as manifested by Umoja Village.

The Village itself was built with the help of local white anarchists, operating under the black political leadership of Take Back the Land.

On April 23, 2007, Umoja Village celebrated it's 6 month anniversary by announcing several campaigns, including the replacement of the wood shanties with more durable hexayurts (Autonomous building); building a water well; engaging in local anti-gentrification and pro-housing campaigns; demanding legal rights to the land from the City of Miami; and plans to acquire land and build low-income housing.

On April 26, 2007, on the day the first hexayurts were scheduled to be built, Umoja Village burned to the ground in a mysterious fire. There were no casualties or injuries. Miami police arrested 11 residents and activists for attempting to remain on the land and the City erected a barbed wire fence around the property that same day.

In order to avoid protests, the City offered Take Back the Land the property in order to build low-income housing before reneging on the offer under pressure from local power brokers and lobbyists. (Miami Herald, July 27, 2007)

On October 23, 2007, Take Back the Land announced it identified vacant public and private foreclosed homes and moved families into some of those homes, in a move it calls liberating housing. As of February 2008, Take Back the Land had a waiting list of 14 families waiting to move into one of those homes.

In February, Max Rameau released a book detailing the experience. The book is entitled Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown.

What: Umoja Village
Where: Liberty City, Miami, Florida USA
When: October 2006 through April 2007
Click here for more information on Umoja Village

Poet


Image by danny.hammontree
The Umoja Village Shantytown was founded on October 23, 2006 in the Liberty City section of Miami, Florida in response to a crisis of gentrification and low-income housing gripping Miami, Florida, considered one of the least affordable cities in the United States.

After months of planning, a group calling itself Take Back the Land seized control of a vacant lot on the corner of 62nd St. and NW 17th Ave. The lot sat vacant for approximately 8 years after low income housing there was demolished by the City of Miami. Take Back the Land erected several tents and then built wood frame shanties in order to provide housing for otherwise homeless people in the area.

Police, City of Miami and Miami-Dade County officials were unable to evict the residents or organizers due to the landmark 1996 Pottinger Settlement. After years of arresting homeless people essentially for being homeless, the Miami ACLU sued the city of Miami, who eventually settled. In the settlement, the city agreed that homeless people could not be arrested if they met three criteria:

1. The individual is homeless;
2. the individual is situated on public land;
3. there are no beds available at homeless shelters in the city;
4. the individual is engaged in "life sustaining conduct," such as eating, sleeping, bathing, "responding to calls of nature," congregating and building "temporary structures" to protect one's self from the elements. (Pottinger Settlement)

Take Back the Land exploited the legal settlement to build a shantytown in Miami, Florida.

By the end of December, Umoja Village housed approximately 50 otherwise homeless people and made the news in the Miami Herald, the Los Angeles Times, Time.com and the New York Times, as well as a number of documentaries and blogs.

Residents ran the Village, voting to build, distribute donations, move in new residents and evict others.

Umoja Village enjoyed broad support in the community, and, therefore, was able to successfully repel numerous attempts by government officials to evict them.

Take Back the Land organizer Max Rameau, of the Center for Pan-African Development, argued that the Umoja Village was not just about gentrification, but was a full "land struggle," in the mold of Brazil's MST, the Landless Workers' Movement and similar movements in South Africa. As an advocate of Pan-Africanism, Rameau asserted black people should control the land in the black community, as manifested by Umoja Village.

The Village itself was built with the help of local white anarchists, operating under the black political leadership of Take Back the Land.

On April 23, 2007, Umoja Village celebrated it's 6 month anniversary by announcing several campaigns, including the replacement of the wood shanties with more durable hexayurts (Autonomous building); building a water well; engaging in local anti-gentrification and pro-housing campaigns; demanding legal rights to the land from the City of Miami; and plans to acquire land and build low-income housing.

On April 26, 2007, on the day the first hexayurts were scheduled to be built, Umoja Village burned to the ground in a mysterious fire. There were no casualties or injuries. Miami police arrested 11 residents and activists for attempting to remain on the land and the City erected a barbed wire fence around the property that same day.

In order to avoid protests, the City offered Take Back the Land the property in order to build low-income housing before reneging on the offer under pressure from local power brokers and lobbyists. (Miami Herald, July 27, 2007)

On October 23, 2007, Take Back the Land announced it identified vacant public and private foreclosed homes and moved families into some of those homes, in a move it calls "liberating" housing. As of February 2008, Take Back the Land had a waiting list of 14 families waiting to move into one of those homes.

In February, Max Rameau released a book detailing the experience. The book is entitled Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown.

What: Umoja Village
Where: Liberty City, Miami, Florida USA
When: October 2006 through April 2007
Click here for more information on Umoja Village

Nice Land Development photos

A few nice land development images I found:

Dredging Land Under Development at Big Pine Key. Note That the Canal Shown Here Is "Plugged" From Exiting Into the Gulf of Mexico...


Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: Dredging Land Under Development at Big Pine Key. Note That the Canal Shown Here Is "Plugged" From Exiting Into the Gulf of Mexico. Permits to Open Artificial Waterways to the Sea Are Hard to Obtain. Developers Dig the Canals Anyway, But Stop Them Just Short of Open Water. Buyers Assume That the "Plugs" Are Temporary.

U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-6154

Photographer: Schulke, Flip, 1930-2008

Subjects:
Key West (Key West, Florida Keys, Monroe county, Florida, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA

Persistent URL: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=548641

Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.

For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html

Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html

Buy copies of selected National Archives photographs and documents at the National Archives Print Shop online: gallery.pictopia.com/natf/photo/

Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted

University of Maryland Shares NSF Grant to Study Urban Development Impact


Image by University of Maryland Press Releases
Photo: The Baltimore of today from space using Google Earth.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland will share part of a million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the relationships of land use, climate and ecosystems in the Chesapeake Bay region. The multidisciplinary project merges social science, natural science, and engineering disciplines to investigate the complex dynamics between water and the built urban environment.

The University of Maryland's Charles Towe - an assistant professor of agriculture and natural resource economics - is a team member of the social science component of the project. Towe will use the grant to reconstruct the Baltimore area's land development over the past 30 years and study the mechanisms driving land conversion in Maryland.

"We make location decisions based on the availability of land or water. Policies are influenced by these factors," Towe says. "We're attempting to say something about this messy dynamic."

MODELING FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The way cities and suburbs develop is determined by links between homebuyers and developers. Homebuyers choose where to live based on budget considerations and location amenities, such as driving access to urban centers, school districts, or environmental characteristics. Developers respond to costs and returns, determined by factors such as the availability of sewer and water lines, or the stringency of zoning and land use regulations. The patterns and timing of urban development depend on how homebuyers, developers and regulators interact in the marketplace.

Using historical data, the social science team aims to simulate Maryland land conversion by deconstructing homebuyer preferences for location amenities, which generate housing demand, and identifying factors that affect developer building decisions, which determine housing supply. By understanding the dynamics that led to past land conversions from farms and forests to urban and suburban uses, these researchers can develop a model to predict when and where future land development might occur under various policy scenarios.

Based off of predictions of future urban landscapes, hydrologists and engineers can estimate the affects that land-use changes will have on nutrient cycles and water quality. For example, in more highly urbanization areas, rainwater hitting parking lots, roads, rooftops will runoff into streams, often carrying salt and nitrogen compounds that degrade nearby waterways.

Similarly, built structure such as bridges, channels and culverts can alter streams and rivers and disrupt aquatic ecosystems. By coupling economic and hydrologic models, the multidisciplinary research effort aims to develop a comprehensive model that policymakers can use to gauge the environmental impact of various land use regulations.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) grant is one of only three awarded in a national competition. The funds will be shared by 13 investigators at the University of Maryland, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University, Ohio State University, the University of Rhode Island, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, US Geological Survey, and USDA Forest Service.

About million of the five-year grant from the NSF Water Sustainability and Climate program will go towards the social science component of the project, including 0,000 for Professor Towe's research at the University of Maryland.

For more information contact:

Assistant Professor Charles Towe
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
National Center for Smart Growth
University of Maryland
ctowe@arec.umd.edu
301-405-7502

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Image by The Development of Birmingham
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