Each morning, millions of Americans start their engines and grind their way to work. They leave quiet settings for the hustle and bustle of the cities. When evening approaches, these same people make their way home. Home, however, is no longer just across town. Many of these people will commute miles and miles to their *country= homes. II. They are not alone in their commute though - the entire rest of the subdivision is doing the exact same thing, day in and day out. They endure the traffic, lost time, and general inconvenience to be surrounded by farmland and open space and a hundred or so homes exactly identical to theirs. (Transition)Today I am going to discuss urban sprawl, its history, causes and effects. First lets discuss the history. III. Urban sprawl has always been a problem in a sense; however not until the automobile was sprawl a serious issue. With the arrival of the automobile, people could live farther a way from work and not have to live in the city. Up until then mostly farmers and ranchers lived outside the city. So the issue became a bigger issue with faster and better cars. Many people were now able to live the American Dream, rural life. A house of their own, out of town enough to be quiet, but never too far from civilization. a. But then something happens, the *open space= that they fell in love with is slowly devoured by housing, shopping malls, and believe it or not other people. b. The rolling fields that once marked their freedom are now browning and dotted with homes. This makes the *original= homeowner unhappy. They write editorials asking questions and demanding answers. Both silently and aloud they fume: how dare the farmer sell out his heritage, the land is more valuable as farmland, right?, how dare the developer exploit the land (don=t they care about our earth?), how dare the politician allow this activity (aren=t we paying them to represent us?), and how dare the home buyer have the audacity to move there.
Urban sprawl is a term that covers a lot of ground one might say. ... Urban sprawl is a plague that has been created by society for as long as humans have been alive. ... Therefore, more stores will be built adding to the urban sprawl. ... In summary, urban sprawl is a very serious issue throughout the United States and is very costly as well. ... Nobody truly benefits from the blight of urban sprawl. ...
The definition of urban sprawl is--"incremental spread of urbanized areas across the regional landscape". ... Understanding the environmental penalty of urban sprawl has become one of the difficulties taken up by the science known as landscape ecology. As a result of all of us going when and where we want to go, urban sprawl has been persistent, unabated since 1900 when the first motorized vehicles appeared. As the population of the United States shifted from around 40 percent urban in 1900 to more than 75 percent urban in 1990. ... Sprawl and its inherited problems will be the major ...
DME - Urban Sprawl, Green Belt Policies and Brownfield Sites 1. ... Urban sprawl - Urban sprawl is where an urban area is expanding out into the countryside. ... Nearby commuter towns such as Guildford, Reigate and Gatwick are in danger of becoming one vast urban sprawl. ... This is because they are in danger of being swallowed up in the developing urban sprawl. ... The Urban Task Force's main suggestions, regarding urban sprawl, are to first exhaust brownfield site possibilities before using green belt sites. ...
The article What Will it Take to Halt Sprawl deals with three cities in different parts of the world that have had problems with urban sprawl in their societies. ... The United States as well as Washington leads the world in sprawling development. ... They have begun to build large supermarkets in urban areas, in 1997 they had 1 and in 2000 they have 53. ... Earlier on some of the sprawl was caused by unintended results. ... I feel that the way for the world to make a change in urban sprawl is to have personal examples of cities that made sacrifices in their own, showing it can be done and it ...
The widespread prevalence of sprawl with all its largely negative impacts on urban life has resulted in efforts to curb its continual growth. ... Sprawl in the continental United States started out at the turn of the nineteenth century, when Americans sought to escape urban congestion and industrial pollution. ... Yang and Lo illuminate the havoc that urban sprawl has wrought on the environment in Atlanta, with traffic congestion, water pollution, and rapid loss of valuable forest land (1777). ... The success of the WalkUP initiative suggests that sprawl in Atlanta is not ceaseless but can be ...
urban sprawl Urban Sprawl Urban sprawl is not a new phenomenon, and the battle between environmentalists and developers is well-known. ... Bill Viola, too, looks for the residual human presence in the vast expanses of nature, just as he finds the residue of nature in the urban non-places of parking lots. ...
These are all questions related to a topic called urban sprawl. Urban sprawl is the process of people moving from urban city like areas to rural areas such as farmland. ... Urban sprawl slowly hurts our world in a variety of ways. ... People who support urban sprawl are angry because we spend a small portion of our tax dollars on trying to slow down or stop the effects of urban sprawl. ... Urban sprawl is also a very expensive matter from the view of the consumer. ...
-------- -------- -------- -------- Urban Sprawl Living in the small city of San Luis Obispo, with that small town feeling we are aware of the issue of urban sprawl. ... I disagree with Clancy's idea of urban sprawl really being as much of a problem as he thinks, but that urban sprawl is a problem that cannot be stopped and doesn't need to be. ... He is frightened by urban sprawl though because it's growing and he thinks we can stop it. I think there is nothing that we can do to stop urban sprawl. ... The best way to stop urban sprawl would be to stop population growth. ...
