Urban Sprawl

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses urban sprawl, or the expanding of a city over its rural land with single-family homes in low-density neighborhoods, and argues that it causes bad health and adversely impacts the environment. The writer provides statistics on obesity rates which appear to be linked to the growth of urban sprawl, and suggests that multiple-story housing in the city and run by the city, with one family per floor, would be an ideal solution. This would lead to lower heating costs, less traffic and better health. Instead of driving and polluting the environment, Americans would spend more time walking or biking, and taking public transportation, which would address the obesity problem as well.

From the Paper:

"As you can see, as Urban Sprawl increases, so does obesity. With all this land being converted to cities and neighborhoods, the natural environment is being destroyed. Where do all the animals go that used to live in this space? They are just left to die off or live in a more dense population somewhere that has not been developed yet. By cities expanding and neighborhoods moving farther and farther apart, the only traffic option left is to drive a personal vehicle. In turn more traffic is being created and more pollution occurs."

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• "ASD & CDC Research Statistics On Obesity In The United States." 2006. American Sports Data. 20 Nov. 2008 <http://www.americansportsdata.com/obesityresearch.asp>.
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