Phys.org

Study: Urban sprawl creates food deserts

Urban sprawl has led to the creation of food deserts in metropolitan areas across the United States, according to a published study by a researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington. Shima ...
Yahoo

100 years of urban sprawl — Is this your city’s future or can planners turn the tide?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was mid-January 1997, the coldest day of the year, when city planners descended on Salt Lake City. They worked in a strange ...
Phys.org

Greenbelts are effective at slowing urban sprawl, new research shows

Fifteen years ago, the global population was almost evenly divided between urban and rural dwellers. In 2022, according to World Bank figures, almost a billion more people live in cities and towns ...
qz

There are ways to let cities sprawl without destroying the environment and marginalizing the poor

When the UN’s flagship cities conference Habitat III meets in Ecuador on Oct. 17, the assembled mandarins and policy experts are set to make several calls to “prevent and contain urban sprawl.” On the ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Urban sprawl is bad for your health, with or without the coronavirus

To the editor: There are two major fallacies in Joel Kotkin’s argument that low-density sprawl might explain the lower impact of COVID-19 in Southern California compared to New York. First, density ...

Queensland’s ‘salad bowl’ at risk as urban sprawl threatens fertile farmland

Some of the world’s most fertile agricultural land faces a serious threat from the creeping urbanisation of southeast ...
Science Daily

How can we slow down urban sprawl? 'Use land sparingly'

There's a lot more we could be doing to combat urban sprawl -- and European countries are leading the way, say researchers. With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, urban ...
Popular Science

Urban sprawl defines unsustainable cities, but it can be undone

🛍️ Amazon Prime Day: The best deals chosen by our editors 🛍️ By Jocelyn Timperley Updated May 3, 2022 12:45 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred ...
The Conversation

National’s housing u‑turn promotes urban sprawl – cities and ratepayers will pick up the bill

Lauded by many as progress towards increasing urban housing supply and density, the MDRS allows land owners to develop up to three housing units, three storeys high, on most urban lots without seeking ...
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Nevada, feds creating urban sprawl with new development efforts, Sierra Club says

The Sierra Club criticized a map tool released this week by Gov. Joe Lombardo and federal partners, saying it represents the ...
Science Daily

Urban sprawl creates food deserts

Urban sprawl has led to the creation of food deserts in metropolitan areas across the United States, according to a new study. Urban sprawl has led to the creation of food deserts in metropolitan ...