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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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The Tunnels of Moose Jaw is one of the major attractions of Saskatchewan’s fourth largest city.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Oct. 2025
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Expands to the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown LA next weekend, ahead on a theatrical roadshow opening in one new city each week.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
19 Oct. 2025
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When Singh’s successor decided to make the fort taller, its shadow fell on the hermit’s home, consequently bringing destruction to the complex and surrounding towns.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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The boat was intercepted off the northern coast of Venezuela, near a small fishing town called San Juan de Unare, which, in the past two decades, has become a transit point for the smuggling of cocaine and marijuana.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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Infantry, tanks, artillery advancing toward inner city Israeli army spokesperson Nadav Shoshani said Israeli forces had been operating in the periphery of Gaza City for several weeks but since the night of Monday to Tuesday large numbers of troops had begun moving towards the inner city.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
19 Sep. 2025
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That day, students across Jefferson County boarded yellow school buses, with Black students headed to formerly White suburban schools, while White students were bused to formerly Black inner city schools.—
Bailey Loosemore,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Sep. 2025
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That includes farmers who have had sludge from water treatment plants spread on their land containing PFAS, fire departments, airports and municipalities, people who own land that was polluted by PFAS originating from another nearby property or waste facilities that accepted PFAS.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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So the city may be less affected by SB 79 than other municipalities in the county.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Oct. 2025
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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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Millennia from now, will urban legends describe the horrific disaster that destroyed the string of American metropolises along the Pacific coast, from Chief Seattle’s Town to the City of Angels?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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This Brazilian metropolis, with over one million inhabitants and located in the Amazon region, will host international leaders this November for the UN Climate Summit.—
Tarciana Medeiros,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
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Manhattan merged with Brooklyn a dozen years before, and here is Greater New York, spreading into new suburbs, boroughs, and garden cities.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
18 Apr. 2025
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Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia.—
Soner Cagaptay,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Feb. 2024
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Having shaped the skyline of downtown Dubai, Emaar Properties is looking abroad for growth, and future targets may be in the world’s two largest economies, according to Founder and Chairman Mohamed Alabbar.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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The project plays a key role in SomeraRoad’s transformation of Paseo South Gulch—a five-acre pocket of downtown that blends historic architecture with a new wave of design, dining, and wellness destinations, including an Equinox gym, the Catbird Seat, Maiz de la Vida, and Carter Vintage Guitars.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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