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    Project 1 Issue history and Origin Urban sprawl is a concept that creates zones called suburbs that spread beyond the outskirts of a city. Urban sprawl is characterized by a low-density auto-dependent development of once rural land and it transforms the land into suburbs and suburbs include various design features that make the suburbs car dependent. Urban sprawl belongs to a larger class of American development in general and urban sprawl has many parts including housing subdivisions‚ strip

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    this would affect biodiversity; biodiversity is when there is different kind of species and its all equal. And last global system (see Appendix 2)‚ global system is a world encompassing system such as climate change and earth cycles. Urban sprawl generally means to the way that cities are continuously expanding outward into rural areas‚ and wilderness areas. This is often used in reference to suburbs which have low population density compared to big cities that it has higher buildings and

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    nation has experienced a tremendous amount of urban growth with the creation of numerous large mecca cities‚ interconnected highways and a boom with the ever-changing technology that becomes more available to society. While technology has simplified and helped our nation tremendously‚ this is just one aspect of the issue of urban sprawl in big cities across America. In recent years‚ the rapid expansion of metropolitan areas has been termed “urban sprawl‚” which refers to a complex pattern of land

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    Effects of Urban Sprawl on Wildlife Imagine yourself driving down the street in the middle of your suburban neighborhood and all of a sudden a deer jumps out in front of your vehicle causing you to slam on the brakes. You sit in your car wondering why there was an animal in the middle of you neighborhood. You should ask yourself: Is urban sprawl effecting our wildlife? Urban sprawl is definitely effecting our wildlife‚ but many species are learning to adapt to living so close to humans. As

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    review] | Urban Sprawl development around an Emerging metropolis Aligarh | Advance Planning Techniques (Assignment -3) [Type a quote from the document or the summary of an interesting point. You can position the text box anywhere in the document. Use the Text Box Tools tab to change the formatting of the pull quote text box.] Urban Sprawl Development around an Emerging Metropolis Aligarh Literature Review Characteristics‚ cause and effects of Urban Sprawl Urban Sprawl impacts

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    centers. Introduction: The Australian urban landscape is largely defined by people who live in the suburbs and work in the city. This spatial polarisation is only successful when people can commute efficiently between work and home. The problem occurs when you encounter a long commute from the outer suburbs on heavily congested motorways. This separation between work and home creates a range

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    The Effects of Suburban Sprawl in Canadian Cities Annotated works cited. Cox‚ W. (2004). Smart growth: threatening the quality of urban life. Halifax‚ Nova Scotia; Atlantic Institute for Market Studies. Smart growth policies do not yield the positive results that anti-suburbanites claim. In fact‚ the research contained in this book demonstrates that smart growth policies can have a negative effect on the health of a city. Portland‚ Oregon has the most aggressive smart growth policy in North

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    Central Park is one of Winnipeg‚ Manitoba’s oldest urban parks which was developed in 1893 after the City of Winnipeg acquired it from The Hudson Bay Company for $10‚000 cash and $10‚000 debentures. Prominent residents developed ornate homes‚ as seen in Figure 1‚ apartments and cottages around the 3.5 acre irregularly shaped park which is located on Qu’Appelle Avenue between Edmonton Street and Carlton Street. As the City began to develop parks and greenspaces they created a Public Parks Board

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    Job Sprawl is another land use symptom of urban sprawl and car-dependent communities. It is defined as low-density‚ geographically spread-out patterns of employment‚ where the majority of jobs in a given metropolitan area are located outside of the main city’s Central Business District (CBD)‚ and increasingly in the suburban periphery. It is often the result of urban disinvestment‚ the geographic freedom of employment location allowed by predominantly car-dependent commuting patterns of many American

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    Special Topics of Planning February 11‚ 2005 Suburban Sprawl has effect are natural landscapes and aesthetics of cityscapes. Sprawl has a negative image in streets‚ commercial‚ residential‚ and overall appearance of cities if not properly planned. Many Americans travel to different cities to find aesthetically pleasing environments and landscapes. Landscapes are visible features of landforms and objects around structure building such as tress‚ gardens‚ or waterfalls. Culture

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