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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
These solutions would likewise benefit our nation’s wildlife, which are being squeezed tighter every year by urban sprawl.
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
In Los Angeles, urban sprawl has expanded development into fire-prone areas, known as the wildland-urban interface.
—Vanessa Crossgrove Fry, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
The property is zoned for agricultural use and is on Prop A lands, meant to conserve agricultural lands and prevent urban sprawl.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Its mission was to plan and manage regional development and control urban sprawl in the seven county, Twin Cities metropolitan area, which was then one of the fastest growing areas in the Midwest.
—John Diers, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
In Los Angeles, urban sprawl has expanded development into fire-prone areas, known as the wildland-urban interface.
—Vanessa Crossgrove Fry, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
The property is zoned for agricultural use and is on Prop A lands, meant to conserve agricultural lands and prevent urban sprawl.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Its mission was to plan and manage regional development and control urban sprawl in the seven county, Twin Cities metropolitan area, which was then one of the fastest growing areas in the Midwest.
—John Diers, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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Leaders from nine Wise County cities — Boyd, Aurora, Decatur, Bridgeport, New Fairview, Alvord, Paradise Newark and Rhome — were among Wise County officials who joined forces over a year ago to lay a groundwork for the Wise Regional Water District.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Apr. 2025
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These are the top cities in which listers reside, in order of popularity.—
Alexandra York,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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What did evoke his inventiveness were the people around him in his small town.—
Essence,
Essence,
8 Apr. 2025
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Right around the time Big Mood was closing up shop in the Crossroads last month, another wine bar and retail shop was uncorking across town.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2025
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Imagine if two twins are separated at birth and raised in different homes: one on a farm with pets and one in the inner city.—
Breanne Hayes Haney,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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Researchers began excavating the Xiongan site in 2017, working their way from the outer city to the inner city and discovering the Tang Dynasty temple where the dragon was found in 2023 as well as other ceramics and Buddhist relics.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
10 Mar. 2025
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Property tax revenues are directly tied to real estate values, and if assessments fall, municipalities may be forced to adjust budgets or raise tax rates to compensate.—
Derek Gilliam,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2025
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According to Illinois law, municipalities are required to use speed camera revenues only on public safety purposes, as well as constructing and maintaining public safety infrastructure.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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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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In those nine minutes of footage, the camera meanders through an optimistic, dynamic metropolis where new technologies breed new visions and big plans.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
18 Apr. 2025
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The city, a boomtown in the last decade thanks to the explosion of wealth generated by its homegrown tech industry, has struggled more than almost any other US metropolis to rebound after the Covid-19 pandemic.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2025
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Manhattan merged with Brooklyn a dozen years before, and here is Greater New York, spreading into new suburbs, boroughs, and garden cities.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
18 Apr. 2025
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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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Just 22 minutes after the armed carjacking, Hardy arrived at the Florida Avenue Garage in downtown Washington.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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When the council was approving the first phase, in 2021, representatives from Visit Sacramento and the Downtown Partnership raised concerns about the project eliminating downtown motel rooms.—
Theresa Clift,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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