Urban sprawl wasn’t always seen with the disfavor it is today—it was the ideal, says Ewing. “If you went back to 1950 and talked to an urban planner, the urban planner would say, ...

With America’s vast highway system and expansive suburbs, Millard-Ball said the U.S. has historically been “the poster-child” of urban sprawl, but that trend has been on a slow decline since ...

Data on urban sprawl will be crucial as human beings attempt to accommodate one another on an increasingly crowded globe. “In 2050, we are expecting another two and a half billion people to be ...

In the new study, researchers from Yale, Texas A&M and Boston Universities mapped urban growth predictions at a local scale by slicing up the world into a grid where every square represented 25 ...

Researchers argue that greenbelts almost always work in curbing sprawl, particularly in larger cities. It looks at 60 cities in Europe, half of them with a greenbelt, half without, and uses open ...

Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by ...

Urban sprawl is the spreading out of a city and its suburbs into rural land. One characteristic that defines urban sprawl is low population density. Residential neighborhoods, for example, tend to ...

There’s a good deal that can be said about the idea of urban sprawl beyond the simple aesthetic. Urban sprawl is the most complex economic issue faced by our economy today, second only to ...

Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by ...