land use
Property purpose designation
Land use is how a piece of land is employed or developed—residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, or recreational.
The term appears frequently in urban planning and zoning discussions: The city council approved a change in land use for the downtown parcel.
Land-use regulations govern what can be built where.
- zoningSectioning areas by use
- fieldArea of specialty
- cropCultivated agricultural plants
- urban planningMunicipal development coordination
- soilGround matter for planting
vacant lot · master plan · infrastructure · urban sprawl · sprawling suburbs · green belt · zoning laws · sustainable development · environmental conservation · nature preserve · eminent domain · farming · strip mall · parking lot · zoning ordinances · residential zoning · building permit · urbanism
- landscape historydeforestation, enclosure, terracing, drainage, reclamation
- city planningzoning, permits, permit, public works, sewers
- human-environment interactionfarming, fishing, hunting, mining, logging
- real estatehouse, home, apartment, property, sale
- Urban Growthzoning, annexation, suburbs, sprawl, boomtown
- human geographycultural landscape, demographics, migration, demography, urbanization
land usewilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
untouched nature · pristine wilderness · natural landscape · undeveloped land · fallow land
land usevacancy
Unoccupied space or position
dereliction · disuse · vacant land · brownfield · wasteland
use, land, used, useful, useless, landing, user, lands, uses