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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
In Los Angeles, urban sprawl has expanded development into fire-prone areas, known as the wildland-urban interface.
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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
Unplanned urban sprawl, fueled primarily by mounting housing needs and the growth of informal settlements that house more than 1.1 billion people, amplifies climate risks.
—Anacláudia Rossbach, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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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
Unplanned urban sprawl, fueled primarily by mounting housing needs and the growth of informal settlements that house more than 1.1 billion people, amplifies climate risks.
—Anacláudia Rossbach, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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Mount Dora urban forester Mark Miller and city staff will also lead workshops on native species, proper pruning techniques, and best planting practices.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2025
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But they will be used as tools by city officials, developers and community members to shape Charlotte’s future.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Apr. 2025
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Set in Mexico between the 1870s and the 1920s, the magic realism epic revolves around the history of a remote town called Comala, the life of which has been destroyed by vengeful local feudal lord Pedro Páramo.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2025
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In developing a town around their chocolate factory, the Hersheys also built theaters, recreation centers and public transportation for their workers.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2025
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The suburbs have gotten more Democratic, while rural areas and some pockets of deep inner cities have moved toward Republicans.—
Tribune News Service,
Boston Herald,
15 Oct. 2024
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The lack of Black male teachers is a big missing piece to the puzzle of improving the inner city educational system.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2025
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So, in Utah, as municipalities now have to figure out how to get fluoride out of the water supply, this new law is just as much an economic issue as a health issue.—
Megha Satyanarayana,
Scientific American,
4 Apr. 2025
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If the municipalities did not comply in the future, Poliakoff feels as though developers will have an easier time prevailing in court with any other lawsuits.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
3 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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The Brazilian coastal metropolis has world-famous beaches worth singing serenades about—and many musicians have.—
Joel Balsam,
AFAR Media,
1 Apr. 2025
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As Deadline has been telling you for months, the Rocky Mountain metropolis has been in pole position over the United Utah bid and the efforts of Cincinnati, Ohio since the Robert Redford founded cinema celebration revealed the trio of finalists last September.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 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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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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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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There’s the Surrey uptown and downtown’s Hotel Barrière Fouquet’s.—
Christopher Cameron,
Robb Report,
9 Apr. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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