Urban Sprawl

There has been a national debate over the land-use policy on urban sprawl. There are 19 states that have passed state growth-management laws and task forces to protect farmland and open spaces.

If we are left with numerous untenanted strip malls and over-foreclosed suburban enclaves, can anything be done to restore the land? How can we prioritize conservation efforts in a different way?

As more Americans take off for the suburbs, the damages caused by urban sprawl become harder to notice. See the effects urban sprawl has on the environment.

Urban sprawl has to do with the effects of the human civilization destroyer natural habitats to build our cities. This is an essay comparing two opposing views on urban sprawl.

Urban sprawl is an environmental issue that has taken center stage in many cities throughout the world. This article provides some methods of analyzing urban sprawl using ArcGIS or any other GIS software package.

With the urbanization of cities and communities around the world, its impact on public health has become increasingly known as the phenomenon of urban sprawl.

Urban sprawl has become a hot topic in recent years, because cities are spreading further and further. Location efficient mortgages are an incentive for home buyers and builders to keep urban sprawl to a minimum. The incentive? A cheaper mortgage.

America's cities continue to grow outward and develop previously unused lands without thinking about the future.

This article offers an overview of the expansion of America's suburban cities and town, including the major influences such growth has on the economy and environment of present day United States.

One of the biggest problems associated with urban sprawl is the effects it has on wildlife and nature itself.

With each day the core cities of America grow and expand outward at a rapid rate. Pollution, overcrowding, bad health, and general stress all come as a result, but how can this be stopped without actually halting growth?

Urban sprawl is creating an environmental crisis in our country. Problems such as loss of farmland, a decline in water quality, and the formation of the heat island effect can all be linked to urban sprawl.

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The 311-mile stretch of US Highway 50 between Ely and Fernley, NV earned the title of "the loneliest highway in America" in the mid-1980s. But does that description still stand up?