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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
Despite its close proximity to the urban sprawl, the natural world permeates their forested two-acre lot, where rosemary and lavender grow, wild beehives can be found in old tree branches, and the occasional brown bear wanders past.
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John Wogan, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
As Austin’s outer bounds have grown, the urban sprawl has encroached on coyote habitat.
—Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
If design is, by definition, humans solving problems, foliage in all forms is not just a lovely-to-look-at enhancement of urban sprawl.
—Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2024
That’s because cheap oil also encourages urban sprawl.
—Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2016
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John Wogan, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
As Austin’s outer bounds have grown, the urban sprawl has encroached on coyote habitat.
—Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
If design is, by definition, humans solving problems, foliage in all forms is not just a lovely-to-look-at enhancement of urban sprawl.
—Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2024
That’s because cheap oil also encourages urban sprawl.
—Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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Also, wolf scat has been found containing plastic and other material that could only have come from garbage cans and city dumps.Al Wolter, Outdoor Life, 10 Jan. 2025
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Few in that city have a better understanding of that than him.Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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This season, Juan moves from Colombia to join his fiancée Jessica, their baby son and soon-to-be stepsons in a sleepy town in Wyoming.Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2025
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What fictional town does Pretty Little Liars take place in?Alex Vance, Parents, 14 Jan. 2025
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As the process progresses, the system experiences a successive reduction in inner city responses up to and including the end of the summoning process: who physically shows up at court to serve.Harry Weller, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2025
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Bob Parsons Net Worth: $3.9 billion Parsons grew up poor in inner city Baltimore.Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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Presently, there are 38 municipalities in the state of Indiana that have approved a 1% tax, Olthoff said.Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
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However, those orders could include other municipalities and neighborhoods over the next few days depending on the need, a law enforcement source tells Deadline.Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 Jan. 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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What’s more - the metropolis wasn’t built with megafires from a new geologic era whipped by hurricane-force winds in mind, either.Eric Mack, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Photos by Jun Michael Park The Afar guide to Busan Seoul may glitter with K-pop and Gangnam style, but Korea’s second-largest metropolis sparkles in its own way.Peggy Orenstein, AFAR Media, 6 Jan. 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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The 2028 Games will be spread throughout Southern California and stretch as far south as Temecula — about 90 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles — and as far east as Oklahoma City, about 1,300 miles away, where softball and canoe slalom will be held.Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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The latest addition to the downtown neighborhood is Bar Mercer at 25 West Houston Street near the corner of Mercer Street.Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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