How To Use Urban sprawl In A Sentence
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The City of Johannesburg plans to reverse the urban sprawl by demarcating a fixed urban boundary, encouraging denser suburbs, and implementing zoning regulations more strictly.
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Everyone, meet Case, a down-on-his-luck hacker surviving in Chiba City, Japan, aka the urban sprawl.
Books in 2010, #3
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Don't let this beautiful historical village turn into a faceless urban sprawl.
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Beyond the suburbs, many towns and cities have a green belt to stop urban sprawl.
Geography Basic Facts
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Urban sprawl has caused towns to merge.
Geography Basic Facts
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He renders spaces and buildings with disarming boldness: flat earthy tones embrace colonial architectural embellishment and contemporary urban sprawl.
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Urban sprawl has caused towns to merge.
Geography Basic Facts
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Once lovely countryside is absorbed by urban sprawl.
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Because most of the Intervale lies within the floodplain of the Winooski River, the land here is protected from the usual pressures of suburban sprawl.
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Yet it has familiar urban problems - overcrowding, pollution, rotting heritage, tottering transport, suburban sprawl.
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Urban sprawl has caused towns to merge.
Geography Basic Facts
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It is quite clear that the Labour Government is not absolutely committed to protecting the greenbelt, which is essential for guarding against urban sprawl.
Labour's threat to Capstone Valley
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But I don't think I can set aside my prejudices about the vacuousness of life in suburban sprawl.
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Suburban sprawl surrounds the two major northern cities of Inverness and Aberdeen.
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The word exurb dates from at least the 1950s; newer words on the model of "exurb" include "boomburb" (a rapidly growing, sprawling city of 100,000 or more on the edge of a major metropolitan area) and "slurb" (an area of unplanned suburban sprawl).
Week in Words
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Nor are the results of urban sprawl always aesthetic.
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Below lie suburban sprawl, motorways, and the remaining wheat fields of the Ile de France, the golden granary of Paris.
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The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people.
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Albert Markovski is a poet and environmentalist fighting for greenspace against encroaching suburban sprawl.
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The green belt has a valuable role in stopping urban sprawl and providing a green lung around towns and cities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beyond the suburbs, many towns and cities have a green belt to stop urban sprawl.
Geography Basic Facts
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Belgium is a continuous urban sprawl running up to the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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The green belt has a valuable role in stopping urban sprawl and providing a green lung around towns and cities.
Times, Sunday Times
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One big disappointment is that they are right next to the ugly urban sprawl of Cairo.
The Sun
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This would spare the region from continued urban sprawl and help to reduce pollution from car journeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is, if you live in this vast suburban sprawl, no point having a nice car.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nothing of the urban sprawl so common to the American south infests its spotless streets and trendy shops.
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It is one of hundreds of historic sites threatened by suburban sprawl.
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In his later articles, Brown increasingly referred to the urban problems of slums, blighted areas and suburban sprawl.
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The green belt has a valuable role in stopping urban sprawl and providing a green lung around towns and cities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Urban sprawl and chaos create many planning problems.
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The quality of life has got to come first above creating ugly urban sprawl.
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Belgium is a continuous urban sprawl running up to the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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In those days London was a vast scattering of interconnected villages, not the urban sprawl that it is now.
Times, Sunday Times
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The treadmill is a corollary to suburban sprawl: a device with which to go nowhere in places where there is now nowhere to go.
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In an effort against urban sprawl, Soleri hoped to create a community based on density and efficiency (called "arcology," a mixture of architecture and ecology).
Ben Terris: The Politics Of Inspiration In The West
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They also say that urban sprawl on hillsides and in low-lying areas has been allowed to grow out of control.
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The word exurb dates from at least the 1950s; newer words on the model of "exurb" include "boomburb" (a rapidly growing, sprawling city of 100,000 or more on the edge of a major metropolitan area) and "slurb" (an area of unplanned suburban sprawl).
Week in Words
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They outlined the regional planning model known as the ‘Transect Concept,’ which sets a pattern for ‘smart growth’ without suburban sprawl.
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Beyond the city, urban sprawl quickly melts into full-on farmland, your jarred spine straightens out again and the whole week's expedition seems to stretch ahead to the horizon beneath immense white clouds.
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Once lovely countryside is absorbed by urban sprawl.
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BTW - immigrants (be they illegal or legal) contribute to urban sprawl, increased pollution from cars, increased pollution from power plants, increased usage of water, increased usage of mined metals (in catalytic converters, cell phones, jewelry, etc) and deforastion.
Sound Politics: Sustain This!
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Its characters were real, its snapshot of ridiculous suburban sprawl was very real, its depiction of family togetherness, though exaggerated for dramatic effect, was also very real.
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Urban sprawl and changes in fanning methods have been hard on bobwhites.
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And instead of greenfield sites, which are supposed to be officially protected, being targeted to add to existing urban sprawl, new development should focus on brownfield sites in order to spur the renewal process.
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Camps once built in remote rural environments are now squeezed by the encroachment of suburban sprawl.
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For example, as suburban sprawl encroaches on farmland, people have more contact with both stable flies and house flies, creating conflict with livestock producers.
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We drove through miles of urban sprawl before we finally got out into the countryside.
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All of the planet was either polluted seas, barren wastelands, or decaying urban sprawl.
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They identify the mechanisms that make suburban sprawl possible, almost inevitable.
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London is not one homogenised urban sprawl: it is hundreds of once separate villages that the Victorian explosion agglomerated into a continuous habitation.
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The editor of a new national magazine called me up before Christmas and asked me to write a story about suburban sprawl.
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Along with recommendations related to the uptown region and urban sprawl, the height and density study provided a set of recommendations on student housing.
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Motorization was progressing, and Suburban sprawling was starting.
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Unfortunately, suburban sprawl in the area limits further extension of the quarry perimeter, and it is likely that this quarry may run out of stone to blast by 2015.
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By the 1960s, urban sprawl had created enormous megalopolises.
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The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
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But more and more countryside is being taken over by housing and protesters fear Winchester could become another characterless suburban sprawl if the Barton Farm development goes ahead.
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Paris is a smaller city than London and consequently has less of a suburban sprawl.
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Yet the squalor of this north-eastern corner of Britain's oldest remaining colony comes as welcome relief after toytown Hamilton, the capital, and Bermuda's endless suburban sprawl.
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Urban sprawl has been a fact of life for Southern California growers and their cooperatives since the 1950s.
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Beyond the suburbs, many towns and cities have a green belt to stop urban sprawl.
Geography Basic Facts
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A backlash against the reforms has begun amid fears that large areas of countryside will be lost to urban sprawl.
Times, Sunday Times
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Who wants to live in derelict, isolating urban sprawl, anyway?
US Government May Bulldoze 50 Cities; Create More Green Space | Inhabitat
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Microsoft's ‘Spaces’ brings the concept of incipient suburban sprawl to the blogisphere.
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One big disappointment is that they are right next to the ugly urban sprawl of Cairo.
The Sun
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The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
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Over the past few decades, rapid regional growth and a culture with a deeply imbued passion for suburban sprawl have taken their toll on downtown Phoenix.
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Belgium is a continuous urban sprawl running up to the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Urban sprawl is taxing the city's infrastructure; local authorities have identified some $3 billion in much-needed transportation improvements.
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These strategies, many believe, are also key to revitalizing our inner cities and helping to mitigate the effects of suburban sprawl.
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It may be appropriate at this point to emphasise that uncaptured betterment tends to contribute to urban sprawl in three ways.
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These types of communities could avoid the detrimental impacts of urban sprawl, including aggravation of the region's air quality problems.
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One big disappointment is that they are right next to the ugly urban sprawl of Cairo.
The Sun
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Unlike those youngsters, my lack of automobility is mostly based on principles: I hold cars responsible for a number of evils, from global warming to suburban sprawl.
'The Allure of the Automobile' at Atlanta's High Museum by Blake Gopnik
