dispersed development

"Then we got away from that - highway building in the 50's dispersed development; now in the last 15 years, communities are struggling to find their way back."

Based in Cupertino, Calif., it provides tools to develop and test software by geographically dispersed development teams, Mr. Crowley said.

Between now and 2010, the study calculated, the state and municipalities could avoid spending $740 million in road construction that would be needed to serve more dispersed development.

Our concerns arise in relation to the new settlement of fourteen hundred households which we see as a quite different animal to the dispersed development proposed in Harrogate, Craven and so on.

Black Duck Code Center streamlines the search, selection, approval and tracking of software components, even across geographically dispersed development organizations, by finding and tracking reusable open source code.

His 2005 book, Sprawl: A Compact History, takes a contrarian view, offering statistical and historical arguments to disprove the most frequently offered criticisms of dispersed development patterns as unhealthy and undesirable.

In it, he said that the city had fallen short of its goals because of difficulty in wading through competing political interests in assembling the contiguous, city-owned parcels of land necessary for the more dispersed development of town houses.

A Political Twist Avoiding dispersed development would also make schools cheaper to run and municipal services cheaper to deliver, the study concluded, and reduce pollution by cutting down on runoff from development and the amount of driving people have to do.

Among the bigger challenges facing the town as pertains to mass transit is the low overall population density and dispersed development that results in a pattern of travel that is less focused on the downtown and hence more difficult to serve by transit.