In a recent study entitled “Patterns of Sprawl in Fresno and the Central San Joaquin Valley,” researchers with the Urban Institute found the region’s urbanized land area has grown by 226% ...

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 24, 2023, Section B, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Football Could Help Transform Urban Sprawl.

In this article, we will be taking a look at the 20 most sprawling cities in the US. You can also skip our detailed analysis on impact of urban sprawl in the US and directly head to the 5 Most ...

Many growing cities have transitioned from expanding outwards to stretching upwards (see chart 1). In the 1990s some 80% of urban areas that were growing quickly were doing so mostly by spreading ...

Learn how to capture the delicate balance between human-built cities and the natural world. How do cities impact nature? In this video, Jeff Kass introduces the concept of urban sprawl and teaches ...

Additionally, urban sprawl has led to the conversion of large tracts of undeveloped land for urban use. For instance, in the US, urban land area expanded from approximately 15 million acres in ...

Weighing Sprawl Factors in Large U.S. Cities analyzes the relative contributions of land-use decisions and population growth to sprawl in the nation’s 100 largest urbanized areas.