Urban Sprawl In Brooklyn

According to the article sprawl defined as “low-density development with residential, shopping and office areas that are rigidly segregated: a lack of thriving activity centers: and limited choice in travel routes.”1 This 4 factors can describe if the metro area are sprawl and how it impacts the people who live in that area. I’m from the small Ukrainian town and this study will not be applicable to analyze it in the same way. However, I lived in the Brooklyn for the 8 years and will talk about NYC in this assignment. Brooklyn, as the one of the boroughs of the NYC will not be classified as the “sprawling”. At least when it compared to the other cities in the US. According to the authors NYC considered as an outlier compared to the other cities and its hold the top position among cities with the lowest sprawl when final score is calculated based on the four main criteria. This city has
First main factor that is used to define sprawl is mix of jobs, shops and housing. NYC scored only seven place in this category, which is primarily due to slight separation of working places and the places where people live. This means most of the people drive less on average to the work or shopping centers compared to the majority of the residents of other cities. Second grading criteria is street network. NYC received the second highest score, which means that on average street network is very dense and allow to find many alternative routes to get to the destination. Third factor that cities where graded on is center of activity. NYC have also well-defined centers of activity, where most of the businesses are concentrated. Since City has few defined centers for each borough, in my opinion that is why it received to the highest score. And the last criteria that is mostly used as a primary indicator of sprawl, is residential density. NYC holds the first place in it with the absolute highest of 242 with the average score of