Urban sprawl
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Urban sprawl, also known as suburban sprawl, is the spreading of a city and its suburbs over rural land at the fringe of an urban area.
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Related topics
- Compact city
- Effects of the car on societies
- Gentrification
- General Motors streetcar conspiracy
- Index of urban studies articles
- New pedestrianism
- Principles of intelligent urbanism
- Rural–urban fringe
- Smart growth
- Town centre
- Urban planning
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Related terminology
- Affluenza
- Boomburb
- Commuter town
- Concentric zone model
- Conspicuous consumption
- Consumerism
- Deforestation
- Demography
- Edge city
- Garden real estate
- Gentrification
- Habitat fragmentation
- Induced demand
- Landscape ecology
- Location Efficient Mortgage
- Megacity
- Microdistrict
- Middle class
- NIMBY
- Overconsumption
- Peak oil
- Planned community
- Prime farmland
- Regional planning
- Rural flight
- Simple living
- Spatial planning
- Streetcar suburb
- Suburbanization
- Urban decay
- World population
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