the spread of city buildings and houses into an area that used to be countryside, or the area in which this has happened planning policies designed to limit the growth of urban sprawlExamples from the Corpusurban sprawl• These powers were permissive, and in most of Britain urban sprawl and...
URBAN SPRAWL meaning: a situation in which large stores, groups of houses, etc., are built in an area around a city that formerly had few people living in it
urban sprawl(noun) 1sprawl/ˈsprɑːl/verb sprawls;sprawled;sprawling Britannica Dictionary definition of SPRAWL always followed by an adverb or preposition[no object] 1 :to lie or sit with your arms and legs spread wide apart The kidssprawledon the floor to watch TV. ...
The meaning of SUBURBAN SPRAWL is the spreading of developments (such as housing developments and shopping centers) into suburban or rural areas : urban sprawl. How to use suburban sprawl in a sentence.
The meaning of SPRAWL is to lie or sit with arms and legs spread out. How to use sprawl in a sentence.
sprawl2noun[singular, uncountable]a large area of buildings that are spread out in an untidy and unattractive wayWe drove through miles ofurban sprawlbefore we finally got out into the countryside.Examples from the Corpussprawl•Through the frontwindowlayasprawlofhills, but the windowabovemybedbut...
sprawls;sprawled;sprawling Britannica Dictionary definition of SPRAWL always followed by an adverb or preposition[no object] 1 :to lie or sit with your arms and legs spread wide apart The kidssprawledon the floor to watch TV. Hesprawled(out) on the couch. ...
Martinek also said he believes there is enough space for infill development throughout the city that will help Oceanside meet its housing requirements rather than a project that contributes to urban sprawl. From Voice of San Diego One of the major problems was that the county allowed sprawl devel...
Urban Growth Externalities and Neighborhood Incentives: Another Cause of Urban Sprawl? This paper suggests a cause of low density urban development or urban sprawl that has not been given much attention in the literature. There have been a nu... M Cinyabuguma,V Mcconnell - 《Journal of Regiona...
The malady of modern planning is actually simple to diagnose: everything is frozen at enormous scale. The other legacy, the chaotic spread of shantytowns, is a side-effect of the loss of control bizarrely produced by the attempt to freeze growth at such enormous scale. Sprawl and shantytown...