Urban Sprawl Essay

Urban sprawl can be best described as an expansion of the population away from urban very populated areas into low density more rural communities. Some places may choose to limit urban sprawl because it does have its drawbacks. With urban sprawl, there is sometimes more traffic involved. A lot of people are willing to move away from the urban populated area, but may not be willing to leave their job that is still located in the urban populated area. This will mean a greater commute to get to work, which also means a greater commute to get home. There may also be great impacts on the environment due to urban sprawl because when you move people to more rural areas, you are also disturbing the habitats of the animals that live in the surrounding areas by cutting down trees. But limiting urban sprawl and urbanization also has its drawbacks as well. To make up for some of the lost …show more content…
Sometimes urban renewal can lead to urban sprawl. A prime example of this are the no longer existing housing projects in Atlanta. Once upon a time, there were 26 housing project complexes operated by the Atlanta Housing authority. Because of eminent domain and urban renewal, there are now none. The residents that were living in them were given housing vouchers to help them pay a portion of their rent to live in a better community and locations now house mixed income apartment communities and businesses. A lot of people do not agree with this because they think that it gives the opportunity for the “bad” people that were living in the projects to now be able to live with people of economic means. But I don’t feel that’s the case. I feel that it may give the people that now live in the mixed income communities a better environment to raise their