urban sprawl
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expansion of auto-oriented, low-density development in suburbs
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human impact on the environment
- Subclass of
- urbanization
- Image
- Suburbia by David Shankbone.jpg
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- Commons category
- Urban sprawl
- opposite of
- rural flight
- facet of
- urban area
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Encyclopedic overview
A typical suburban development in the United States, located in Chandler, Arizona
An urban development in Palma, Mallorca
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “urban sprawl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.