0 the spread of a city into the area surrounding it, often without planning:
Huge tourist attractions have produced choking urban sprawl.
It could so easily have become swamped in urban sprawl, in a way that is essential it should not.
His discourse thus far suggests that he regards any extension of urban space to be ipso facto urban sprawl.
The fundamental aim of green belt policy is to prevent urban sprawl.
Does he agree with me that the metropolitan green belt is the greatest bulwark against urban sprawl?
It would form a dormitory suburb which would be an outstanding example of undesirable urban sprawl.
But the metropolitanists never mastered the post-depression forces that impoverished the urban core and promoted urban sprawl.
Changes in conditions that affect germination behaviour may be linked to human activities including, directly or indirectly, urban sprawl.
These include increased federal regulation, disparate farmer incomes, disappearance of the mid-sized farm, and urban sprawl.
