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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
That’s because cheap oil also encourages urban sprawl.
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Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2016
The state’s land use laws, which limit urban sprawl, also contribute to housing scarcity, further pushing up prices.
—Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
Cities and counties must soon consider the impact of development on wildlife connectivity in their land-use plans following the passage of a law intended to promote safe travel across habitat fragmented by urban sprawl and freeways.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Focusing on urban density, retrofits promote efficient land use and help prevent urban sprawl, thereby protecting ecosystems.
—Kathleen Abbott, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2016
The state’s land use laws, which limit urban sprawl, also contribute to housing scarcity, further pushing up prices.
—Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
Cities and counties must soon consider the impact of development on wildlife connectivity in their land-use plans following the passage of a law intended to promote safe travel across habitat fragmented by urban sprawl and freeways.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Focusing on urban density, retrofits promote efficient land use and help prevent urban sprawl, thereby protecting ecosystems.
—Kathleen Abbott, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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Returning from larger stomping grounds to run one of the state’s most diverse cities is not always the smoothest transition, political experts have said.Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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New York City, home to the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, didn’t make the list, but plenty of other interesting cities did. Check out which seven cities were ranked the best places for a Thanksgiving trip.Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Others simply left the cities and spread out into smaller towns and farms.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 21 Nov. 2024
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Later that day, the Fannin County Sheriff's Office reported that Soren, who is now 11, walked less than a mile into town to visit the local Dollar General store.Sally Hawkins, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
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Just as, college towns and inner cities offers more guarantees for Vice President Harris than heavily blue-collar and Hispanic communities.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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In many parts of the country, suburbs and exurbs have seen the biggest population gains in the last decade, while inner cities have often lost residents.Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2024
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While federal grants exist, the demand far outpaces the need and in some states — like South Carolina and Wisconsin — federal dollars aren’t distributed below the state level, so costs are borne by county and municipalities’ general funds.Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 3 Nov. 2024
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Some municipalities across the state are also continuing early voting into this weekend.Cailey Gleeson, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
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Our beautiful neighborhoods will become an asphalt jungle!Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
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But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
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Sprawling cities in the South and Southwest emerged seemingly overnight, while new suburbs encircled older metropolises in the North.David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
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The Dallas congressman and local native won Webb as well as populous Hidalgo and Cameron counties, home of the border-straddling metropolis of McAllen-Reynosa and Brownsville-Matamoros — but by far less than past Democrats.Saul Elbein, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
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Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia.Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
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Lee Kuan Yew, the city’s first prime minister, launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967.CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
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In 2023, the couple helped open The Last Place in downtown Louisville, the Courier Journal previously reported.Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2024
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Beal opened his first location of the Cigar Vault in downtown Buda seven years ago.Rachel Royster, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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