Urban sprawl, by its very nature, means cities are forever expanding outward. Initially, their borders expand, and then eventually, as they bump up against those constraints, the challenge becomes figuring out ways to make the most use of the space ...
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Offsetting Housing and Environmental Stresses as Cities Expand
Between 2000 and 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service reports that urban land use in the United States increased from 2.6 percent of the overall land surface to 3 percent. That might not sound like much, but ...
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