land-devouring

Because of the preponderance of the automobile, the surrender of public policy and public land for use by density-driven commercial developers maximizing profit with the spur of tax incentives, the uniform subdivision of suburban land, and so many design professionals and educators still under the philosophical sway of Le Corbusier's radial "city" with its horizontal sprawl of disparate land-devouring housing and intermittent shopping malls.

Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011

Because of the preponderance of the automobile, the surrender of public policy and public land for use by density-driven commercial developers maximizing profit with the spur of tax incentives, the uniform subdivision of suburban land, and so many design professionals and educators still under the philosophical sway of Le Corbusier's radial "city" with its horizontal sprawl of disparate land-devouring housing and intermittent shopping malls.

Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011

Because of the preponderance of the automobile, the surrender of public policy and public land for use by density-driven commercial developers maximizing profit with the spur of tax incentives, the uniform subdivision of suburban land, and so many design professionals and educators still under the philosophical sway of Le Corbusier's radial "city" with its horizontal sprawl of disparate land-devouring housing and intermittent shopping malls.

Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011

Because of the preponderance of the automobile, the surrender of public policy and public land for use by density-driven commercial developers maximizing profit with the spur of tax incentives, the uniform subdivision of suburban land, and so many design professionals and educators still under the philosophical sway of Le Corbusier's radial "city" with its horizontal sprawl of disparate land-devouring housing and intermittent shopping malls.

Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011

You mean the squatters, the sugar-planters, the land-devouring swarm of 'Christians,' who think that a bullock's hide, worth twenty shillings, is of more moment than the welfare of thousands of poor, naked savages, whose country we have taken, and yet of whom we make beasts of burden -- hewers of wood and drawers of water.

Tom Gerrard Louis Becke 1884

And therefore, if ever ye would have blessed days, you must make it your great business to remove these nineteen mountains, and repent of these land-devouring and soul-destroying abominations.

The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

Pope Pius the Fifth had summoned Christianity to resist the land-devouring power of the Ottomans.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

For their part, grape growers say they should not be demonized as land-devouring opportunists.

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