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The ongoing growth of a major Indian city has helped experts to create a new way of understanding how ‘urban sprawl’ happens – providing potential to improve people’s lives across the Global South ...

Basic rule of urban design: If you can see it on a map, you’ve got a better chance of being able to lay out a thoughtful plan for development. That’s the impetus behind the recent upgrade to the Atlas ...

Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by a ...

Rising gas prices prevented the development of 4.19 million acres of forest and agricultural land in the U.S. between 2000 and 2015, according to a new study. The findings enhance understanding of the ...

Researchers argue that greenbelts almost always work in curbing sprawl, particularly in larger cities. It looks at 60 cities in Europe, half of them with a greenbelt, half without, and uses ...

The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it. Credit...Video by Dan Winters Supported by By Conor Dougherty Conor Dougherty ...

AbstractThis paper aims at describing urban sprawl driven land use changes during the last decades in Greece as well as analyzing the major regional and economic development implications. Particular ...

Amid Australia’s housing crisis, land-supply slogans are once again dominating discussions about the solutions. Governments and private developers often blame housing crises on lack of land for new ...

Urban researchers found a correlation between urban sprawl and a decreased life expectancy in the United States. A recently published study by a University of Texas at Arlington urban researcher shows ...