Dictionary
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"
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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
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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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