An industrial park (or industrial estate in British English) is an area of land set aside for industrial development. Industrial parks are usually located close to transport facilities, especially where more than one transport modalities coincide: highways, railroads, airports, and navigable rivers. A more "lightweight" version is the office park, which has offices and light industry, rather than heavy industry. Dialect areas of England British English (BrE) is a term used to differentiate between the form of the English language used in the British Isles and those used elsewhere. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... Urban planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest towns to the worlds largest cities. ... An intermodal train carrying both shipping containers and highway semi-trailers in piggyback service, on flatcars, passes through the Cajon Pass in February, 1995. ... Highway in Pennsylvania, USA A highway is a major road designed for automobile travel that connects cities, places, other highways, or other significant points of interest. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... Table of geography, hydrography, and navigation, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... The Murray River in Australia. ... OFFICE WORK IS SHITE!! NEVER WORK IN ONE! end of. ...

This idea of setting land aside through this type of zoning is based on several concepts: A typical zoning map; this one identifies the zones, or development districts, in the city of Ontario, California Zoning is a North American term for a system of land-use regulation. ...

• To be able to concentrate dedicated infrastructure in a delimited area to reduce the per-business expense of that infrastructure. Such infrastructure includes roadways, railroad sidings, ports, high-power electric supplies (often including three-phase power), high-end communications cables, large-volume water supplies, and high-volume gas lines.
• To be able to attract new business by providing an integrated infrastructure in one location
• To set aside industrial uses from urban areas to try to reduce the environmental and social impact of the industrial uses
• To provide for localized environmental controls that are specific to the needs of an industrial area

Different industrial parks fulfill these criteria to differing degrees. Many small communities have established industrial parks with only access to a nearby highway, and with only the basic utilities and roadways, and with few or no special environmental safeguards. Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 The Port of Wellington at night. ... Three-phase power transformer which is the sole transferpoint for electricity to a suburban shopping mall in Canada. ... Impact of a drop of water. ... Many stoves use natural gas. ... An urban area is a term used to define an area where there is an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ...

During the 1970s to 1990s, there was a glut of industrial park development in the United States, resulting today in vast areas of industrial parks that sit idle and unsuited to other uses. This trend has been criticized as being a sort of "cargo cult", from the wildly optimistic speculation that, if it was built, "they" would come. According to David Brooks, one consequence of office parks in the United States is that large numbers of people living in exurbs no longer have contact with urban life. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from 2000 and 2001. ... Look up Glut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The word glut may refer to: Fornjót (a jotun from Norse mythology) GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit) Glucose transporter This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... A cargo cult is any of a group of religious movements that occurred in Melanesia, in the Southwestern Pacific. ... David Brooks, conservative commentator for the New York Times and other publications. ... The expression exurb (for extra-urban) was coined in the 1950s, by Auguste Comte Spectorsky in his book The Exurbanites, to describe the ring of prosperous rural communities beyond the suburbs that, due to availability via the new high-speed limited-access highways, were becoming dormitory communities for an urban...

Industrial parks have also been criticized because of their frequent remoteness of urban areas, one of the characteristics that has been touted as a benefit. One reason for this specific criticism is that industrial parks often destroy productive and valuable agricultural land. Another is that the industrial parks become remote to their employee pool, necessitating longer commutes and limiting employment accessibility for poorer employees. Another reason is that many urban areas have extensive areas of brownfield land that many feel should be the first priority in redeveloping as industrial sites. Examples of brownfields that were redeveloped into productive properties Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. ...

In the UK small industrial parks containing multiple units all of the same style are known as trading estates. In Hong Kong there are three industrial estates. An Estate (or housing estate) (mostly UK) refers to a defined area of housing, usually in a common style or built during the same period. ...