101. The Environmental Literacy Council - Urban Sprawl The expansion of urban areas has been termed urban sprawl. While there are various definitions of urban sprawl, it is generally considered to be http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/409.html

Home About ELC Site Map Contact Us ... Food Urban Sprawl In the decades following World War II, rising prosperity, availability of affordable transportation, and the lure of green lawns and open spaces spurred a migration of inner city populations to suburban areas. From 1970 to 1990, suburban populations grew 60 percent, while urban populations grew only 12 percent. This trend continued in the last decade, as families moved further away from city centers to find lower housing costs. The expansion of urban areas has been termed "urban sprawl." While there are various definitions of urban sprawl, it is generally considered to be low-density and dispersed development of land outside urban centers. Who Sprawls Most? How Growth Patterns Differ Across the U.S. Brookings Institute scholars examine urban growth patterns and density of land use across the U.S. and the factors that contribute to low-density urban development. See the Brookings Urban Center site for additional research on sprawl and smart growth. Rice University: The Sprawl Net Homepage The School of Architecture maintains a resource page for information, data, and policies regarding urban sprawl.

102. David Rusk - Welcome To My Home Page urban sprawl is like pornography – hard to define but you know it when you see it. One yardstick for sprawl is the growth of urbanized areas – a central http://www.gamaliel.org/Strategic/StrategicpartnersRuskMadisonArticle.htm

About David Rusk What I do Purchase Book Speaking Schedule ... Contact David Rusk David Rusk a Strategic Partner of The Gamaliel Foundation an organizing institute Gamaliel Main Page Strategic Partners David Rusk Home Thee David Rusk Document Library ... Rusk Documents Off-Site Creating Livable Communities: Are We Going To Live Together? By David Rusk Only 80 miles as the crow flies may lie between Madison and Milwaukee but light years separate the two cities. Madison is one of America’s more favored communities while deep economic and social divides afflict greater Milwaukee. Much of the difference derives from different histories. At the heart of the four-county Milwaukee region is an old, industrial city.

103. American Forests: Urban Sprawl Information urban sprawl Information Home Resources urban sprawl As our population continues to grow and sprawl into the surrounding environment, http://www.americanforests.org/resources/sprawl/

Resources Resources National Register of Big Trees Urban Forests Forest Policy ... Links Urban Sprawl Information Home Resources Urban Sprawl Two hundred years ago, the United States was a nation of farmers. Today, 80% of us live in urban and suburban areas. As our population continues to grow and sprawl into the surrounding environment, our neighborhood of trees and forests is being lost. This loss is more than sentimental-it carries an economic price tag. Sprawl development is the number one threat to our nation's trees and forests, according to a 1999 survey of American Forests members. They are worried about the seemingly inevitable loss of forests and are joining with us to encourage tree-smart development that saves money and helps build livable, sustainable communities. American Forests has spent more than 20 years researching the condition of our urban and suburban forests. Our work in the Puget Sound, Atlanta, and Chesapeake Bay regions has revealed a stark fact: the heavy tree canopy in all these areas has declined by more than one-third in just twenty-five years. American Forests' Five-Step Plan to Combat Sprawl Step 1: Know what you've got Tree canopy cover is a proven indicator of community health and sustainability. What is your community's coverage? Find out with American Forests'

104. Stories For Students If so, then perhaps your area has succumbed to urban sprawl. What are some of the problems associated with urban sprawl? urban sprawl refers to the http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2000/04/front.270400.sprawl.jhtml

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105. Land: Agriculture And Urban Sprawl The report made a distinction between sprawl and development and concluded the United States is losing as much top soil to urban sprawl as it is saving http://www.texasep.org/html/lnd/lnd_2agr_sprawl.html

FYI With 36.8 million acres of prime farmland, Texas has more prime farmland than any other state. Source: NRCS, National Resources Inventory, Graphic Highlights of Natural Resource Trends in the U.S. between1982 and 1992 [Washington, D.C., April 1995]. A study released by the American Farmland Trust in October 2002, reported that the United States is losing two acres of mostly prime farmland every minute to development. The loss is occurring on the edge of the "outer suburbs." The report made a distinction between sprawl and development and concluded that it was sprawl, not development itself that caused the disappearance of 6 million acres of farmland between 1992 and 1997. According to the American Farmland Trust, the United States is losing as much top soil to urban sprawl as it is saving through programs like the Conservation Reserve Program.

106. Race, Poverty And Urban Sprawl I. urban sprawl and Its Effects on Central City Communities. urban sprawl, which has long been a reality of the American landscape, has recently drawn http://www1.umn.edu/irp/publications/racepovertyandurbansprawl.html

Home What's New About IRP Best Practices ... Employment Opportunities Race, Poverty, and Urban Sprawl: Access to Opportunities Through Regional Strategies by john a. powell This article attempts to demonstrate the need for social justice and urban civil rights advocates to focus on sprawl as well as concentrated poverty. The article posits that these are as much civil rights issues as environmental or land use issues and that sprawl has frustrated civil rights efforts. Indeed, there is strong evidence that racialized concentrated poverty is both a cause and product of sprawl and that, due to this interrelationship, concentrated poverty cannot be addressed without addressing sprawl. To examine this relationship, the author explores how the phenomena of gentrification and the revitalization strategy of in-fill operate differently in rich, middle-class, and poor cities. Finally, the author argues that concentrated poverty and sprawl are regional issues that can only be addressed on a regional level; therefore, it is a mistake for social justice and urban civil rights advocates to leave the regional discussion to environmentalists and land use planners. Introduction This article explores the relationship between sprawl and concentrated poverty. Although there has been inadequate attention given to this relationship, a number of scholars have recently begun to examine it more closely.

107. Urban Sprawl: New Smart Growth America Study Moves To Measure Elusive Location F urban sprawl New Smart Growth America Study Moves to Measure Elusive Location Factor. http://www.conway.com/ssinsider/snapshot/sf021028.htm

Week of October 28, 2002 Snapshot from the Field LOOKING FOR A PREVIOUS STORY? CHECK THE ARCHIVE Study: Riverside, Calif., Sprawl Highest, NYC Lowest Urban Sprawl: New Smart Growth America Study Moves to Measure Elusive Location Factor by JACK LYNE Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing WASHINGTON, D.C. www.smartgrowthamerica.com ), a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, has just released the results of a three-year study that ranked urban sprawl in the 83 largest U.S. metropolitan regions. (Collectively, those 83 metro regions contain about half of the U.S. population.) High-sprawl areas suffer the same traffic delays as do clustered metros, the SGA study found. "This finding," researchers wrote, "challenges claims that regions can sprawl their way out of congestion." "For the first time we are able to define sprawl objectively, so we can see how it measures up," said Don Chen, SGA executive director. So where does sprawl measure up in its most pronounced form? The three metro areas with the greatest sprawl, at least according to the SGA study, are Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif.; Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, N.C.; and Raleigh-Durham, N.C., respectively. (See accompanying chart.) And where is sprawl least pronounced? The three metros with the least sprawl, according to the SGA study, are, respectively, New York; Jersey City, N.J.; and Providence-Pawtucket-Woonsocket, R.I. (See accompanying chart.)

108. Measuring Urban Sprawl Research The Geospatial Technology The Geospatial technology program (GTP) is a research, cooperative extension, and teaching program in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at the http://lal.cas.psu.edu/Research/sprawl.html

109. GIS Application - Urban Planning urban sprawl pattern recognition and modeling using GIS (Map India 2003) Measuring urban sprawl A case study of Hyderabad (Dec, 2001) http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/urban/sprawl/

Home Geospatial Application Papers Overview Urban Sprawl Fringe Area Development Urban Agglomeration Emerging Technologies Relevant Links Urban Sprawl SIGMA0: Better Monitoring of Urban Change (Map Asia 2003) Dr. François Cavayas, Dr. Yves Baudouin, Claire Gosselin, Dr. Réjean Simard Urban sprawl pattern recognition and modeling using GIS (Map India 2003) H. S. Sudhira, T. V. Ramachandra, Dr. T.V.Ramachandra, K. S. Jagadish Measuring urban sprawl: A case study of Hyderabad (Dec, 2001) K. Madhavi Lata, Dr. V. Krishna Prasad, Dr. K. V. S. Badarinath, Dr. V. Raghavaswamy, C. H. Sankar Rao Analysis of intra-district disparities for Dehradun district using GIS technique (Map India 2000) R.D.Gupta, P.K. Garg, Manoj Arora Zoning atlas for environmental siting of district Ghaziabad - A case study (Map India 1999) Er. Prabhat Chaturvedi Application of Remote Sensing and GIS techniques in monitoring of urban sprawl in and around Jharia coalfields (Dhanbad) Vinay Kumar Srvastava The study of knowledge-based database assist for urban land Use classification (ACRS 2000) Fu-jen Chien, Tien-Yin Chou

110. Measuring Urban Sprawl: A Case Study Of Hyderabad GIS Application Urban Planning; Measuring urban sprawl A case study of Hyderabad. http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/urban/sprawl/urbans0004.htm

Home Geospatial Application Papers Urban Sprawl Overview Urban Sprawl Fringe Area Development Urban Agglomeration Emerging Technologies Relevant Links ... Printer Friendly Format Page 1 of 2 Next Measuring urban sprawl: A case study of Hyderabad K. Madhavi Lata, Dr. V. Krishna Prasad, Dr. K. V. S. Badarinath, Dr. V. Raghavaswamy National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), Department of Space Government of India , Hyderabad badrinath_kvs@nrsa.gov.in C. H. Sankar Rao Dept. of Geo-engineering and Resource Development Technology College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam Study Area The study area of Hyderabad city and environs extend from 17010/-17050/N and 78010/-78050/ E. The Hyderabad Urban Development Area (HUDA) is around 1907 sq.km. The HUDA area is divided into 29 planning zones (11 zones inside municipal limits and 18 zones in the non-municipal limits or peripheral areas). The city is located around 580m above Mean Sea Level (MSL). It experiences a minimum temperature of 11.60C and a maximum of 40.50C with an average annual rainfall of 73.55 cms. The city is situated centrally between the other metropolises of Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore and is well connected by road, rail and air. Datasets and Methodology In the present study, IRS-1C (LISS-III + PAN) merged data of 1999, Hyderabad area is used for studying the entropy characteristics of urban sprawl patterns and their areal estimates are derived using satellite and GIS techniques.

111. Regional Review: Urban Sprawl Little wonder, then, that urban sprawl has been in the national spotlight in Yet, the relationship between sprawl and urban decline has not been proved. http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/nerr/rr2000/q1/wass00_1.htm

var open_str = 0; search go Home Economic Research Publications and Papers ... Regional Review Urban Sprawl Quarter 1, 2000 by Miriam Wasserman American cities seem to be spilling over their traditional boundaries and covering surrounding areas with low-density development at an astounding pace. More than 100,000 new homes were built in 21 metropolitan areas, including Boston, between 1990 and 1997. Most of this construction took place in medium- and lower-density counties at the metropolitan fringe. Time and Newsweek ran feature stories on sprawl in 1999. And Vice President Al Gore has made sprawl central to his presidential bid. In spite of this national attention, however, sprawl is not well understood and the magnitude of the problem is hard to assess. For one thing, land is abundant in the United States. Although three million acres of rural land were lost to development each year during the 1990s, only 7 percent of nonfederal land in the country is built up, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Most agree that, even in the face of rapid development, urbanization is not a threat to food production nationally for the foreseeable future. Moreover, if a majority of Americans have chosen bigger houses in larger lots over denser homes in traditional cities, then obvious private benefits are involved in this pattern of development.

112. Realty Times - Real Estate News And Advice urban sprawl Threatens Canadian Lives by PJ Wade. A recentlyreleased report from the Vancouver-based Is Population Growth The Cause Of urban sprawl? http://realtytimes.com/rtcpages/20031104_sprawl.htm

Real Estate News and Advice September 26, 2005 Search Realty Times Agent Locator Contact Us Subscribe Newsletter ... Canada Urban Sprawl Threatens Canadian Lives by PJ Wade A recently-released report from the Vancouver-based Suzuki Foundation warns Canadians that the ever-expanding sprawl of Canada's cities must be one of the first issues addressed by all levels of government because it is seriously affecting the health of Canadians. Entitled "Driven to Action: Stopping Sprawl in Your Community," the report explains that sprawl is responsible for increased air pollution, rising obesity rates and loss of agricultural land. This report advocates that everyone from individual property owners to the federal government must work together to stop urban sprawl, but that this must be a priority for provincial governments. "The time to address this critical issue is now," said David Suzuki, an award-winning Canadian scientist who is familiar to audiences around the world as host of CBC TV's long-running series

113. The Public Purpose: Mythical Underpinnings: The Crusade Against Urban Sprawl The New Urbanism, Smart Growth and the Crusade Against urban sprawl. The Problem urban sprawl An increasing amount of attention is being directed toward http://www.publicpurpose.com/pp-newurban.htm

Number 27 . February 1999 Mythical Underpinnings: The New Urbanism, Smart Growth and the Crusade Against Urban Sprawl The Problem: "Urban Sprawl:" An increasing amount of attention is being directed toward the development of American urban areas, especially the phenomenon of "urban sprawl." A number of states and jurisdictions have enacted "smart growth" initiatives and adopted "urban growth boundaries" to control urban sprawl. Recently the issue received "top billing" at the White House, when President Clinton and Vice-President Gore announced their "Livable Communities Agenda," which, it was promised, would reduce traffic congestion, promote cleaner air, preserve open spaces and retard urban sprawl. For decades the land area growth American urban areas has been much greater than the population growth. This geographic expansion is often attributed to increasing dependence upon the automobile and the construction of the interstate highway (motorway) system. A relatively new school of urban planners, "the new urbanists" blame a number of problems on the expanding urban area, including increased traffic congestion, higher air pollution, increasing work trip travel times, the decline of central cities and a reduction in valuable agricultural land (new urbanist policies also go by the label "smart growth"). Moreover, new urbanists believe that more spacious urban areas typical of the United States are inherently inefficient relative to more compact cities, exhibiting higher costs for infrastructure and public services.

114. Ecology And Society:  Urban Sprawl A journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/viewissue.php?sf=14

115. Outside Report: A Cultural Defense Of Urban Sprawl As Atlanta s urban sprawl moves rapidly (expanding some 70 miles away from the We lament the spread of urban sprawl as it destroys the town squares, http://outsidereport.blogspot.com/2005/07/cultural-defense-of-urban-sprawl.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=7244551"); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/main.css); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/1.css); Notify Blogger about objectionable content. What does this mean? BlogThis! Outside Report Sunday, July 31, 2005 A Cultural Defense of Urban Sprawl My virtuo dad, great friend, and fellow cancer survivor, Dr. Luker and I went to visit the site of the "last mass lynching" in America out in Monroe, GA at Moore's Ford Bridge. Dr. Luker has a great post that covers virtually all my thoughts (and by the way, he's a terrific writer and historian so I highly encourage you to read it). He has it all in the post.. the creepiness and silence of the bridge..the fact that there were no markers to note what happened on the bridge (though im sure that's true of the hundreds of lynchings throughout Georgia)...our visit to the funeral home to see the raw photos of the lynching Since Herr Ackerman has stripped me of all posting power but politics, I will try not to deviate too far outside my lines. What I noticed most about our trip were the people and the symbols and what they say about the region's politics.

116. 1000 Friends Of Iowa | Top Ten Things Adversely Affected By Urban Sprawl urban sprawl has increased our dependence on the automobile and use of nonrenewable fuels. Miles and miles of paving cut into the land, taking thousands http://www.kfoi.org/kfoi_topten.php

Home Land Use Bulletins Annual Meeting Best Development Awards ... Contact us See also: Top Ten Things Adversely Affected by Urban Sprawl Archived Projects Site Map You are visitor number Webmaster: Carl Olsen www.carlswebs.com For statistical information regarding this site, click on the icon below 1000 Friends of Iowa Citizens United For Responsible Land Use Top Ten Things Adversely Affected by Urban Sprawl 1. Farmland While all farmland is not of equal value, if you look at the quality of farmland globally, Iowans are sitting on a precious non-renewable resource. Farming is Iowa's second largest employer after retail. One out of every four jobs is related to ag, for a total of 500,000 jobs. In 1996, ag accounted for 25% of the state's total economic activity ($55.8 billion). [1] Yet Iowa loses 26,000 acres of farmland a year. [2] Urban development on farmland compromises the ability of farmers to do their jobs. Machinery, noise, dust, livestock, smells, traffic, building materials littering fields, and increased population do not make for good neighborhood relations. 2. Natural Areas

117. Urban Sprawl@Everything2.com The term urban sprawl is negative, almost by definition. If urban sprawl was renamed. forcing young people to live in older, decaying, lower income http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=70785

118. Mid-Atlantic RESAC Planning Land Use Planning and urban sprawl. Land conversion from one use to another is accelerating in the MidAtlantic region leading to increases in traffic http://www.geog.umd.edu/resac/planning.htm

Home News Research Partners ... Staff Research Land Use Planning and Urban Sprawl Land conversion from one use to another is accelerating in the Mid-Atlantic region leading to increases in traffic congestion, land consumption, forest fragmentation, and impervious surfaces . These changes have important implications for hydrological dynamics, associated stream quality and, ultimately, the health of the Chesapeake Bay. One of the goals of the Mid-Atlantic RESAC is to predict the future direction of urban growth and assist planners (e.g., MD Office Of Planning ) to devise strategies to mitigate the undesirable consequences of unplanned growth. High resolution remote sensing is a promising technology for monitoring the growth of urban areas. For example, a decrease of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in Landsat satellite imagery provides an indicator of urban development with an overall accuracy of 85%, based on ground sampling. The Washington D.C. area has expanded at an average rate of ~22 km2/yr over the 26 yr. study period, with a period of extremely rapid growth occurring during the late 1980s. A simple calculation suggests that each additional person added to the metropolitan region accounts for ~600 m2 of additional landcover conversion. It appears that residential development favors the conversion of agricultural land, rather than forested land.

119. Groups: Urban Sprawl Threatens Species - Environment - MSNBC.com urban sprawl is gobbling up open spaces in fastgrowing metropolitan areas so quickly that it could spell extinction for nearly 1200 species of plants and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6814251

Skip navigation U.S. News Hurricanes' Wrath The Changing Court ... Most Popular NBC NEWS MSNBC TV Today Show Nightly News Meet the Press ... Environment Groups: Urban sprawl threatens species Report: Loss of open space in fast-growing areas puts 1,200 at risk WASHINGTON - Urban sprawl is gobbling up open spaces in fast-growing metropolitan areas so quickly that it could spell extinction for nearly 1,200 species of plants and animals, environmental groups say. The National Wildlife Federation, Smart Growth America and NatureServe projected that over the next 25 years, more than 22,000 acres of natural resources and habitat will be lost to development in 35 of the largest and most rapidly growing metropolitan areas. According to the groups, as many as 553 of the nearly 1,200 at-risk species are found only in those areas. "The bottom line is that these species are at risk of extinction due to habitat destruction," said John Kostyack, a National Wildlife Federation attorney and report co-author. "And in these metro areas, the leading cause of habitat destruction is sprawl - development of homes and office buildings and roads in outlying forests and farm fields." The government lists 1,264 U.S. species - 518 animals and 746 plants - as endangered or, to a lesser degree, threatened by extinction and in need of federal protection. The environmental groups cited a larger group of species they said were in trouble.

120. Short Course On The Economics Of Urban Sprawl And Land Use Change (a) MarketBased Instruments to Control for urban sprawl; (f) The Consequences of urban sprawl Land Use and Transportation http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/news/conference/sprawl/

Short Course on The Economics of Urban Sprawl and Land Use Change June 22 nd Organized by Professor Antonio M. Bento, University of California, Santa Barbara Professor Charles D. Kolstad, University of California Santa Barbara Sponsored by: The Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management The University of California Transportation Center Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science Objective: The purpose of this one-day intensive course is to expose graduate students, environmental and urban economists, geographers, urban planners and policymakers to the recent developments in the literature on the Economics of Urban Sprawl and Land Use Change Modeling. The course will consist of six lectures, given by experts in each of the following sub-topics: (a) Market-Based Instruments to Control for Urban Sprawl; Topics covered : The Monocentric City Model; Spatially-disaggregated Models of the Landscape; Optimal Market Based Instruments Instructor Prof. Antonio M. Bento , University of California, Santa Barbara (b) The Value of Spatially Explicit Modeling;

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