Noun
urban sprawl (countable and uncountable, plural urban sprawls)
(urban studies) An unplanned, disorganized growth of housing etc. on the edge of a city.
As one of the programme’s talking heads, I helped reveal the honest truth: in most places, remaining natural habitats between intensive agriculture and urban sprawl. Source: Internet
A 10-minute-long video, screened in a dark room behind an artificial wall, tracks a young city-dweller who, faced with the cold impersonality of urban sprawl, has reached a breaking point. Source: Internet
Due to urban density restrictions, rezoning for residential development within urban living areas is difficult, which forces the builder and the market into urban sprawl and propagates the energy inefficiencies that come with distance from urban centers. Source: Internet
An increasing percentage of this is due to low density urban sprawl which is extending into natural areas. Source: Internet
An urban growth boundary, or UGB, is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for higher density urban development and the area outside be used for lower density development. Source: Internet
He also notes that Heinlein successfully predicted urban sprawl driven by cheap and efficient transport, as well as the development of 'pseudopods' of urban development between communities. Source: Internet