sprawl

The authorities concerned should develop certain standards and laws to stop this unplanned urban sprawl.

Urban sprawl means the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities.

Urban sprawl is one of the most discussed topics in urban planning.

Keywords: Urban sprawl, Geographical Information System, land-use change and land sat images.

Basmajian describes the history of the urban planning missteps and resulting sprawl that is modern Atlanta.

Thus, areas with impervious surfaces increase in urban sprawl and the further spreading of impervious surfaces corresponds to higher intensity sprawl (Jaeger, et al., 2010).

There are many definitions of sprawl and many ways to analyze it.

In 2002, Smart Growth America released Measuring Sprawl and Its Impact, a landmark study that has been widely used by researchers to examine the costs and benefits of sprawling development.

The basic point is that the planning organizations and individuals are not adequately aware of the severity of the sprawl of mid-sized cities and they therefore are more involved in containing the outward extension of the metropolitan areas like Tehran, Mashhad, and Esfahan.

Dear EarthTalk: I recently heard the term "ocean sprawl," which was a new one on me.

CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) said it has achieved the industry's first virtual machine intelligent archiving capability to help enterprises and service providers eliminate VM sprawl and regain control of virtual infrastructure resources.

This land; the battle over sprawl and the future of America.