What is Urban Sprawl?
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covering every green ppeice of land with housing developments that are filled with poorly made, yet massive, houses that all look identical(mc mansions), gas stations, malls, strip malls, chain restrants, etc. so corporate assholes can buy hummers and fuck up our envirornment just like how our society is fucked up.
go take shrooms, youll learn somthing.
urban sprawl is another thing that americans will one day regret.
(interchange causes malls,
and crouded chain resterants.
more housing developments go up
named afer the things they replace.
so welcome to medow brook,
and welcome to shady space.
well it all seems a bit abrupt,
no, i dont like this change of space.
-modest mouse)
cloned houses equals cloned minds.
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When formerly rural areas are threatened by the encroachment of urban areas. Happens when people move and commute further and further away from the city, soon to be followed by strip malls, Walmart, cookie-cutter housing developments and SUVS driven by soccer moms and corporate fatcats. Some people complain that it also causes higher taxes, higher crime and pollution.
Urban sprawl happens near every city of reasonable size but occurs the fastest in the Sun Belt. Urban sprawl is addressed in the song "They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot."
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When a group of idiots stand talking idly on the pavement/sidewalk and have not left any room for the flow of people to get past them.
I was trying to get in to the shop, but the urban sprawl was blocking the entrance.
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A loaded term with potentially offensive connotations.
Describes a perceived unlivability in
I couldn't handel the urban sprawl that was everyday life in Manhattan; I'm currently looking for land in North Dakota to escape from it all.
