sprawl

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  • an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about sit or lie with one's limbs spread out go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
  • "Branches straggling out quite far"

  • Wikipedia


    Sprawl; please see:
  • urban sprawl (also called suburban sprawl)
  • ''For the metropolitan region stretching from Boston, MassachusettsBoston to Atlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta in William Gibson (novelist)William Gibson's fiction, see The Sprawl.''disambig
  • Websites


    Sierra Club
    The Sierra Club has chapters throughout the United States and Canada that offer opportunities for local involvement, activism and outings. Links to chapter sites. Current priority campaigns: Sprawl Solutions, Protecting Wildlands, Forests and Logging, Water and Factory Farm Pollution, Global Warming, Human Rights, Population Stabilization and Responsible Trade. Provide information and resources on many issues.
    http://www.sierraclub.org

    Sprawl Watch
    Clearinghouse with news, information and resource links about land-use, community planning and preservation.
    http://www.sprawlwatch.org/

    Sprawl-Busters
    One of the most comprehensive and earliest sites to target sprawl, by Al Norman, "anti-sprawl guru" and consultant. Arguments and statistics to support campaigns against sprawl developments. Reading list, news, list of towns that have defeated mega-retail proposals.
    http://www.sprawl-busters.com

    PlannersWeb
    Topical material on zoning ordinances, land use, comprehensive plans, master plans, subdivision regulation, transportation, housing, urban design, takings-property rights, and the impacts on cities and towns.
    http://www.plannersweb.com/

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