Example collocations logo

Sprawl in sentence

50 examples of Sprawl in a sentence

You can call it suburban sprawl.
This includes arson, urban sprawl, acid rain, not to mention terrorism and wars.
In the Global South, we're seeing desertification, whereas in the north, we're seeing suburban sprawl.
If we look at this carefully, we find it's about 40 percent of the Earth's land surface is devoted to agriculture, and it's 60 times larger than all the areas we complain about, our suburban sprawl and our cities where we mostly live.
So you have the sprawl of LA, the sprawl of Mexico City.
You have these unbelievable new cities in China, which you might call tower sprawl.
And the worst idea we've ever had is suburban sprawl.
By suburban sprawl, I refer to the reorganization of the landscape and the creation of the landscape around the requirement of automobile use, and that the automobile that was once an instrument of freedom has become a gas-belching, time-wasting and life-threatening prosthetic device that many of us need just to, most Americans, in fact, need, just to live their daily lives.
While most other cities were growing an undifferentiated spare tire of sprawl, they instituted an urban growth boundary.
We could build such spectacular cities that we could disincentivize sprawl and actually protect nature.
And while these two cities have the same population, San Diego has grown six times larger than Tijuana in the last decades, immediately thrusting us to confront the tensions and conflicts between sprawl and density, which are at the center of today's discussion about environmental sustainability.
Pretty much everywhere, the fields and forests, the mangroves and meadows that fireflies need to survive, are giving way to development and to sprawl.
The sprawl of Los Angeles now passes San Diego across the Mexican border to Tijuana.
This kind of transformation is exactly like sprawl in the last century, the movement where our investment in highways and automobiles fundamentally changed American life.
These changes were the foundations for urban sprawl.
We didn't call it sprawl at that time.
But when we look today in wonder and disgust, maybe, at the metropolis sprawl before us, we wonder if we're stuck.
But our history of sprawl, and from what we can already see with these catalyst projects today, we know and must remember that big changes like this don't usually benefit everyone.
And we contrast that to the other way, an invention that happened after the Second World War, suburban sprawl, clearly not compact, clearly not diverse, and it's not walkable, because so few of the streets connect, that those streets that do connect become overburdened, and you wouldn't let your kid out on them.
So it's fun to break sprawl down into its constituent parts.
Then the final part of sprawl that everyone forgot to count: if you're going to separate everything from everything else and reconnect it only with automotive infrastructure, then this is what your landscape begins to look like.
The main message here is: if you want to have a walkable city, you can't start with the sprawl model.
I show this slide, which has been a formative document of the New Urbanism now for almost 30 years, to show that sprawl and the traditional neighborhood contain the same things.
It's called sprawl, and I'll be upfront about that.
But it's not just the kind of sprawl you think of, or many people think of, as low-density development out at the periphery of the metropolitan area.
Actually, I think sprawl can happen anywhere, at any density.
So the antidote to sprawl is really what we all need to be thinking about, especially when we're taking on this massive construction project.
And one was sprawl.
The sprawl version of California almost doubles the urban physical footprint.
Here's another kind of sprawl: China, high-density sprawl, what you think of as an oxymoron, but the same problems, everything isolated in superblocks, and of course this amazing smog that was just spoken to.