The Problem Of Urban Sprawl

The environmental risk that me and my group chose to address is urban sprawl.Urban sprawl is the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas which is bad.The solution that we came up with is to add more public places for the community. From the article, “the problem of urban sprawl,” “sprawl has fundamentally reshaped our urban landscape and continues to have an outsized effect on life in America.”This quote means that the urban areas are pretty much taking up the country.Another example is, “Older cities in the northeast corridor from Boston to Washington tend to be more compact, and house higher numbers of people in multifamily dwellings. This is bad because it says older cities in the northeast corridor are facing urban sprawl. The last example is, “The most sprawled regions in the U.S. are the Midwest and South, but particularly the Southeast.If this keep happening, urban sprawl will consume the whole southeast. …show more content…
“As said in Cultivate Green Space”No matter how small, adding a bit of green to a suburban landscape makes a neighborhood more enjoyable to look at and live in and it can lift residents’ spirits long term.This can help fix urban sprawl because it adds green spaces for the community and the city. “Researchers used data from a British household survey to conclude that people who moved to areas with lots of green space had better mental health overall, compared with those who moved to neighborhoods with less greenery.”This is also good because if people move to green spaces it will persuade more people to move there, and also it is healthy for them so they will live longer.“In Minnesota, two grassroots initiatives are helping neighborhoods transform suburban streets to accommodate alternative transportation modes.”
The technology needed to make all of these changes happen to the new city is not