Abstract
This paper presents an in-depth discussion of urban sprawl and its many negative impacts on urban areas. These include increases in traffic related problems, negative environmental impacts, greater demand on the resources and services provided by municipalities and even social segregation. Toronto is used as an example of a city that has been experiencing urban sprawl.

From the Paper
"Urban sprawl has had many negative impacts on urban areas, like increase traffic related problems, negative environmental impacts, greater demand on the resources and services provided by municipalities and even social segregation. Toronto has been experiencing urban sprawl. A more sustainable city development would include concepts such as revitalizing the city core, developing more high-density housing and mixed-use land planning, more focus on public transit or other environmentally friendly modes of transportation."

Tags:briefing note, urban sprawl, toronto

Abstract
This paper discusses what is known as the 'urban sprawl'. According to this paper, the urban sprawl is the shifting trend of young adults that were raised in the suburbs by parents who left the city for a more suburban lifestyle, returning to the city to make their home.

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"In the latter half of the 20th century the phenomenon of urban sprawl came to define the urban and suburban landscapes of North America. However, towards the end of the 1990s and in the early 21st century geographers began to take note of shifting trends regarding urban sprawl as formerly suburbanized populations, such as the children of the "baby boom" generation, began returning to the cities."

Tags:geography, urban, sprawl

Abstract
This paper analyzes an article about the issue of urban sprawl in Montreal. The author points out that urban sprawl is a continuing problem, which has devitalizing the city center of Montreal. The paper relates that this is the result of several factors, but the article alleges that the most relevant factor is the fact that the regional government does not really have a voice in this issue.

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"The Canadian city is changing, mostly as a result of urban sprawl, and not enough is being done to stem the flow of this change or to direct it in more desirable directions. This is the emphasis of the article which forms Chapter 14 of the text The Changing Canadian Metropolis (Volume 2), edited by F. Frisken. The chapter, entitled "Urban Sprawl in the Montreal Area - Policies and Trends" by Charbonneau, Hamel and Barcelo of the University of Montreal, gives us a comprehensive picture of what is going on in Montreal in recent times with regard to its city planning - or, more relevantly, the lack of urban planning."

Tags:urban, sprawl, montreal

Abstract
The paper explores urban sprawl and possible alternatives to it. The paper argues that urbran sprawl has a number of negative environmental consequences, including increased greenhouse gas emissions and the destruction of agricultural land.

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"There is a great deal of debate regarding urban sprawl. However, there seems to be a growing consensus by many researchers that urban sprawl or the rapid growth of suburbs is a major problem. One of the suggestions that have been put forward to deal with urban sprawl is urban intensification. This essay will argue that this assessment is essentially correct. In order to begin this argument it is necessary to look at urban sprawl itself. In Human Geography William Norton states, "The term urban sprawl is often used to describe...""

Tags:urban, sprawl, bad

Abstract
This paper describes the urban sprawl and the statistics related to it contending some recommendations from the public administrators viewpoint.

Tags:urban, sprawl, florida

Abstract
This paper examines a number of media discussions of urban sprawl in the Greater Golden Horseshoe region in the context of scholarly analyses of this phenomenon. The thesis is argued that urban sprawl must be understood in terms of an economic geography analysis that would not only explain the factors contributing to this trend, but also explain its costs in environmental terms as well as its implications for continuing change in land use and economic development in terms of Weberian locational principles. As is seen, the acceleration of urban sprawl risks transforming the equations that have fostered economic growth across the region. The paper shows how unchecked sprawl may result in congestion and increasing transportation costs that, if not addressed by political and business leading, may throttle economic development in the region in the years to come.

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"Arguably no land use trend in the Greater Golden Horsehoe region has received more media attention in recent years than has urban sprawl. However, one of the defining characteristics of media representations of this issue has been the tendency of media to focus on isolated aspects of this trend - i.e., the loss of farm land to development or the environmental degradation of the Oak Ridges Moraine - without explaining the broader economic forces that contribute to this trend. In the absence..."

Tags:land, sprawl, canada

Abstract
This third year environmental planning course assignment discusses urban sprawl in the greater Toronto area. The paper examines urban sprawl, the Oak Ridges moraine, planning problems and planning solutions. The paper further examines the implementation of the greenbelt plan.

From the Paper
"There are many environmental, social and political issues that can be solved through effective planning. However, some environmental, urban and political problems have been caused by a lack of planning. One of the most potentially disastrous environmental, urban and political issues is urban sprawl. According to William Norton in Human Geography, The term urban sprawl is often used to describe the deconcentration that involves low-density expansion of urban land uses into surrounding rural areas (Norton 418). This rather clinical definition is misleading because it treats urban sprawl as if it is not problematic."

Tags:sprawl, oak, ridges

Abstract
The paper discusses how the urban areas of Ontario and Toronto are experiencing urban sprawl. The paper describes the characteristics of urban sprawl and how it can be measured. The paper looks at urban sprawl's negative impacts on the environment, taxpayers and on the population's cultural and social life. The paper offers recommendations for future land-use development that will sustainably manage growth and discourage urban sprawl.

Outline:
Issue
Analysis
Recommendations

From the Paper
"Urban sprawl is not easy to define. "To paraphrase the United States Supreme Court's long-ago ruling on pornography, most people can't define sprawl--but they know it when they see it" (Fulton et al, 2001). Urban sprawl is a phenomenon that occurs around metropolitan areas, usually represented by suburbs, and it involved the spread of cities and the urbanization or areas around it previously undeveloped, used for agriculture or green fields and forests.
"There are several characteristics of urban sprawl by which it can be recognized. First, the land-use is segregated and usually entails single use zoning. This means that residential, commercial and industrial areas are separated from one another. Often there are large undeveloped, empty areas between them. Because these areas are separated, traveling from one to the other can only be done with a car."

Tags:suburbs, cities, urbanization, fields, low-density, development

Abstract
This paper examines a number of media discussions of urban sprawl in the Greater Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada, in the context of scholarly analyses of this phenomenon. The paper argues that urban sprawl must be understood in terms of an economic geography analysis. It claims that this perspective would not only explain the factors contributing to this trend, but also explain its costs in environmental terms. The paper also discusses the implications for continuing change in land use and economic development in terms of Weberian locational principles. The paper contains appended original sources.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Media Representations of Urban Sprawl
Media in Context: The Scholarly Literature
Solutions
Conclusion

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"As we have seen, while the media representation of urban sprawl in the Greater Golden Horseshoe region have generally focused on environmental issues or associated political questions, there has been little attention paid to the broader economic forces that have shaped this land use trend. Through a review of scholarly literature combined with lecture material, it has been demonstrated how we must understand this phenomenon in terms of economic geography to appreciate its historical development as well as how the unchecked acceleration of this process risks increasing transportation costs and thereby - as Weberian locational behavior principles would suggest - undermining the economic future of the entire region. Thus, the necessity for government as a player in this process becomes clear, although the history of planning on this issue would suggest that viable solutions to the problem must incorporate a significant role for market forces as primary elements of change in the future of the region."

Tags:population, demographics, suburban

Abstract
The American pattern of cities that spread further and further away from the center of the population -- urban sprawl -- can cause serious problems. This paper discusses some of the effects of urban sprawl such as the deterioration of the environment and the rise of poverty in the inner-city circle. The paper shows Washington D.C. as an example of urban sprawl.

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"One result of urban-to-suburban population shift is that city populations have shrunk by more than 40%. In addition, those populations are over-represented by people who are poor, elderly, or criminal. These city populations tend to place strain on public services such as schools and hospitals even as the city's tax base shrinks from loss of both citizens and businesses."

Tags:metropolitan, leap-frogging, infrastructure