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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
As natural landscapes are converted to agriculture or taken over by urban sprawl, logging operations and oil and gas exploration, ecosystems become fragmented and the space that species need to survive and reproduce disappears.
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Karrigan Börk, The Conversation, 13 May 2025
The population density here averages 2,500 to 13,000 people per square mile — respectable, but nowhere near Japan’s urban sprawl.
—Angelette C. Aviles, Baltimore Sun, 19 Apr. 2025
The rapid population growth has brought in urban sprawl, traffic gridlock, environmental pollution and a declining quality of urban life.
—Hugo A Loaiciga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Established in 2010 by seven friends from southeastern England, the group has earned international fame and fortune by turning urban sprawl into the ultimate obstacle courses.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2025
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Karrigan Börk, The Conversation, 13 May 2025
The population density here averages 2,500 to 13,000 people per square mile — respectable, but nowhere near Japan’s urban sprawl.
—Angelette C. Aviles, Baltimore Sun, 19 Apr. 2025
The rapid population growth has brought in urban sprawl, traffic gridlock, environmental pollution and a declining quality of urban life.
—Hugo A Loaiciga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Established in 2010 by seven friends from southeastern England, the group has earned international fame and fortune by turning urban sprawl into the ultimate obstacle courses.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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Eight of our readers’ 10 favorite South Carolina resorts can be found along the coast; three winners are located on Hilton Head Island (with another just off the island in Bluffton), and four are located in the communities surrounding the reader-favorite city, Charleston.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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But over the last seven months, city workers have been heaving up roads, digging trenches, some 20-foot deep for catch basins, as part of the city’s $42.3 million commitment to upgrade the underground infrastructure.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 July 2025
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The small town of about 750 residents draws in more than 2 million tourists each year because of its downtown and lakefront attractions.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
13 July 2025
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Rival trainers brought chimpanzees to town — including a celebrated simian named Joe Mendi, who wore a plaid suit and a fedora hat.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
13 July 2025
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That’s when Danger came into the picture, moving from an inner city church in St. Paul, Minnesota to Hollywood.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
27 June 2025
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One popular rule to inch closer to this goal has been to further limit smoking in public outdoor areas like restaurant and bar patios, beaches, parks, natural areas or even inner city streets.—
Katharina Buchholz,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Other teams have reached out to their municipalities for the first time in decades in an effort to take this moment to improve their facilities and offerings.—
Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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There are several local taxing entities — including school districts, municipalities, the community college, the state and more — that pay for their operations using public property tax dollars.—
Sofi Zeman
July 9,
Kansas City Star,
9 July 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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For years, most people in this metropolis were unwaveringly kind and patient with international visitors.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 July 2025
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As buyers flocked to sunny South Florida shores during and following the pandemic lockdowns, prices in the metropolis soared—and the need for designers swiftly followed.—
Dan Howarth,
Architectural Digest,
7 July 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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Just a few blocks east, the National Weather Service recorded 5 inches of rain falling in an hour and a half, as a thunderstorm stalled over downtown and nearby neighborhoods.—
William Tong,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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With its sweeping views of the Douro River, beyond which sits Porto’s historic downtown, Tivoli Kopke Porto Gaia invites guests to enjoy Porto over a glass of its signature port wine rather than hustle through it.—
Caroline Tell,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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