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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
The event underscores growing concerns about extreme weather events in the Southwest, a region already contending with prolonged drought, extreme heat, and expanding urban sprawl that increases vulnerability.
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Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
On a societal level, bigger cars take up more public space, leaving less room for the livable, likeable city and promote urban sprawl.
—Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
The swans pose too great a threat to native species reliant on the few wetlands left in California, which has lost at least 90% of the habitats to agriculture and urban sprawl.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Oregon adopted a unique set of land use laws in the late 1960s and 1970s that helped curb urban sprawl.
—Rob Davis, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
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Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
On a societal level, bigger cars take up more public space, leaving less room for the livable, likeable city and promote urban sprawl.
—Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
The swans pose too great a threat to native species reliant on the few wetlands left in California, which has lost at least 90% of the habitats to agriculture and urban sprawl.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Oregon adopted a unique set of land use laws in the late 1960s and 1970s that helped curb urban sprawl.
—Rob Davis, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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Morning wind chills in both cities could sit in the lower to mid-20s, but Chicago’s setup is uniquely volatile because of how the Arctic air is interacting with the warm lake.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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At least 15 cities and counties, including Conway and Sherwood, have ballot measures ranging from bond issues for municipal construction to sales tax renewals.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Nov. 2025
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That's a big bite for a town of 1500 with an annual budget of a little over $3 million a year.—
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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The neighborhood/area The hotel has a plum position on the Eendrachtsplein, a buzzy town square in the heart of the city with trams, buses, and a metro line connecting it to all corners of town.—
Chris Schalkx,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
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Car & Ride-share Services Within the inner city, skip the hassle and call a car; ride-share services like Ola and DiDi are everywhere.—
Alli Forde,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Nov. 2025
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Joe Vercellino, an award-winning music teacher who taught music in Detroit's inner city for nearly a decade and was named Detroit's Teacher of the Year in 2021, knows this reality firsthand.—
Kris Ann Valdez,
Parents,
4 Nov. 2025
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Los Angeles Trade-Technical College offers the largest community college auto repair program in the region, turning out graduates ready to work at dealership service centers, independent shops and the fleet departments of municipalities, among other areas.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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That will add to corporate names like Toyota and Ericsson that have put some of their regional hubs in the municipality.—
Brian Womack,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Our beautiful neighborhoods will become an asphalt jungle!—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2024
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But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.—
Leslie Felperin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 May 2024
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Admire holiday toy trains racing through a miniature metropolis.—
Caroline Ritzie,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Jan. 2026
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There's something about being in a bustling new city far away from home—and some metropolises seem to have more of a magnetic draw for tourists than others.—
Taryn White,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
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The backstory This is the first Edition in Southeast Asia, a new build designed by Safdie Architects that pays tribute to Singapore’s reputation as a modern garden city.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Dec. 2025
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Thank you for the warmest welcome to your garden city.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
14 Nov. 2025
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In 2022, Landry moved in with her father for her senior year of high school before enrolling at the university herself, and Layla found a place downtown where Knox was a freshman in high school.—
Jane LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Minneapolis continued to reel on Thursday after a 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, was shot in the head this week by a federal immigration officer in a residential neighborhood south of the Midwestern city's downtown.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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