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Urban Sprawl - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Urban sprawl refers to dispersed, low-density development on the outskirts of urban areas, characterized by fragmented and ribbon-like developments.

Definition of Urban Sprawl: A Discussion - Community Development

Yes, it's worrisome if your growth is chaotic or of poor quality. But sprawl only becomes a meaningful explanatory concept if most of the ...

Sprawl: What is Sprawl? - Lehigh University Environmental Initiative

"Sprawl is defined as the process in which the spread of development across the landscape far outpaces population growth. The landscape sprawl creates has ...

Sprawl Depends on More Than Just Density - CP&DR

Any metro where regulations and financing mechanism encourage the paving over of farm land and wilderness is sprawling. Any metro that has dying tract homes on ...

How Urban Sprawl Works - Science | HowStuffWorks

Though it has many definitions, urban sprawl is most simply defined as "the spreading out of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land at the ...

This Is Sprawl - Aaron M. Renn

Sprawl is only the decentralization of the urban landscape and the substitution of one urban form for another. What we today consider “urban” ( ...

Sprawl - Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Transportation—By its very nature, sprawl increases the reliance on cars as the only means of transportation. The increase in commuting distances and traffic ...

What does "sprawl" means in the urban context? : r/AskAnAmerican

Urban sprawl just means, urban expansion. Many areas in the US have large urban sprawl, especially around major cities like L.A, New York ...

"Urban Sprawl" and the American Dream - Mackinac Center

To others, what is often called sprawl is simply another term for healthy economic growth; the natural result of free people pursuing their shot ...

The Beauty of Sprawl - S.C. Sea Grant Consortium

Innovative town planners condemn sprawl—low-density, car-dependent development—as socially destructive. It eats up wildlife habitat, harms air and water quality ...

The Origins of Sprawl - The Paris Review

Sprawl is rows and rows of nearly identical houses with a little space between. It's driving away from the houses (and you usually have to drive) ...

Urban Sprawl Explained - YouTube

Ready to take action to stop sprawl and get more housing built more centrally ASAP? Click here to email your City Councillor now: ...

the next wave of sprawl. - Natural Lands

For most of us, the words “suburban sprawl” conjure up images of cookie cutter homes, tangled networks of freeways, and traffic back-ups as ...

Urban Sprawl: Definitions, Data, Methods of Measurement, and ...

(2001, 685), sprawl is “low levels of some combination” of “density, continuity, concentration, clustering, centrality, nuclearity, mixed uses, ...

Sprawl Is Good: The Environmental Case for Suburbia

Just like density, sprawl has costs as well as benefits. For instance, sprawl can result in the loss of species' habitats and natural landscapes ...

Do Americans Really Only Want Sprawl? - Reason Magazine

Kotkin argues Americans' "deep-seated preferences" are for single-family homes in the suburbs where everything is a convenient drive away. The ...

Rethinking Urban Sprawl - GLOBE-Net

These challenges include greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, road congestion and lack of affordable housing. Urban sprawl is a complex ...

Cities are sprawling and it's only going to get uglier - The Tufts Daily

Urban sprawl is only getting worse, it's clear a change is needed before this beige epidemic consumes the outskirts of American cities entirely.

Unsustainable Suburban Sprawl - Population Connection

Suburban sprawl, generally speaking, is the low-density expansion of cities over a wide geographical area, usually into undeveloped land.

Suburban Sprawl: Not Just An Environmental Issue

Many conservatives believe that (1) sprawl is merely the result of the free market at work; (2) even if sprawl has negative effects, it cannot be limited ...