19 Facts About Urban sprawl

In Continental Europe, the term peri-urbanisation is often used to denote similar dynamics and phenomena, but the term urban sprawl is currently being used by the European Environment Agency.

Term urban sprawl is highly politicized and almost always has negative connotations.

Definitions of Urban sprawl vary; researchers in the field acknowledge that the term lacks precision.

Urban sprawl argued that a better way to identify sprawl was to use indicators rather than characteristics because this was a more flexible and less arbitrary method.

Urban sprawl proposed using "accessibility" and "functional open space" as indicators.

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Urban sprawl explains that despite the high-rise buildings, China's superblocks are largely single-use and surrounded by giant arterial roads, which detach different functions of a city and create an environment unfriendly to pedestrians.

Job sprawl is another land use symptom of urban sprawl and car-dependent communities.

Land for Urban sprawl is often taken from fertile agricultural lands, which are often located immediately surrounding cities; the extent of modern Urban sprawl has consumed a large amount of the most productive agricultural land, as well as forest, desert and other wilderness areas.

Eric Schlosser, in his book Fast Food Nation, argues that fast food chains accelerate suburban sprawl and help set its tone with their expansive parking lots, flashy signs, and plastic architecture.

Urban sprawl is associated with a number of negative environmental outcomes.

One of the major environmental problems associated with Urban sprawl is land loss, habitat loss and subsequent reduction in biodiversity.

However, some market-oriented commentators believe that the current patterns of Urban sprawl are in fact the result of distortions of the free market.

Arguments opposing urban sprawl include concrete effects such as health and environmental issues as well as abstract consequences including neighborhood vitality.

One of the primary debates around suburban sprawl is the extent to which sprawl is the result of consumer preference.

Some, such as Peter Gordon, a professor of planning and economics at the University of Southern California's School of Urban sprawl Planning and Development, argue that most households have shown a clear preference for low-density living and that this is a fact that should not be ignored by planners.

However, other academics such as Reid Ewing argue that while a large segment of people prefer suburban living that does not mean that sprawl itself is preferred by consumers, and that a large variety of suburban environments satisfy consumer demand, including areas that mitigate the worst effects of sprawl.

Critics of urban sprawl say that the United States' improper treatment of minority groups' access to transportation is a major downside to the continuation of urban sprawl.

Many critics concede that Urban sprawl produces some negative externalities; however there is some dispute about the most effective way to reduce these negative effects.

The concept of circular flow land use management has been developed in Europe to reduce land take by urban sprawl through promoting inner-city and brownfield development.