Sprawl trilogy

The definition of a city may seem like it would be simple and to the point. The work of several demographers, archaeologists, and philosophers proves that the understanding of a city requires a thorough analysis. E.B. White, Kingsley Davis, Gordon Childe, Lewis Mumford, Kenneth Jackson and Robert Bruegman have their own understandings of what a city is. White has a thought-provoking idea of a city, especially in the way he describes his visit to New York City. He feels that New York is not…

Diabetes and Suburban Sprawl Dr. Richard J. Jackson, pediatrician and former director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention created a series of documentaries titled Designing Healthy Communities. In the first series, Dr. Jackson explores the physical and social environment that surrounds suburban America. Communities around the U.S. lack mobility and in turn this has created an increase of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the last…

Australia’s population growth would have significant effects on the agricultural landscapes and its sustainability. Population growth would inevitably lead to urban sprawl towards the outer urban fringes where agricultural lands generally located. Thus, urban sprawl would create conflicts between the most beneficial type of land developments for the land whether it be residential or agriculture. So, the sustainability of the agricultural landscape would ultimately be based on the result of…

Introduction Urban sprawl is the expansion of a city or its suburbs, especially the commercialization in rural areas including farmland or undeveloped lands, such as forests and open spaces. Urban sprawl can be caused by numerous factors including rapid population growth, rise of living standard, decrease of land rate, lack of urban planning, etc. Urban sprawl creates numerous problems that would decrease in environmental quality through wildlife habitat destruction, deforestation, wetlands, and…

and 3 reveals that much urban sprawl has occurred in the D’Olive Creek Watershed from 1989 to 2016. As stated previously, impervious surfaces reroute runoff, which can impact sedimentation, erosion, and pollution processes in local environments. Over the past few decades, urban development has had negative effects on the local watershed (Coffee 2010). Based on Figures 2 and 3, it can be asserted that this environmental stress correlates with the local, urban sprawl displayed…

describes sprawl as the process that has contributed to the dependency of the automobile, the creation of low-density housing arrangements, and the segregated placement of commercial buildings in suburban communities. On the onset, sprawl may appear to be an ingenious product created from the expansion of urban cities; however, there are certain consequences that arise from sprawl that indicate that it is actually quite detrimental to many aspects of everyday living. The result of sprawl and…

In the documentary “Suburban America: Problems and Promises” by Ron Rudaitis, focuses on the examination of the changing communities within the suburban homes and cities. This is documentary educates on the history of the suburbs, how it changes politically, and socially. It also demonstrated their developmental challenges, as well as a form of sustainable living styles in the suburbs. The documentary mainly focuses on the political changes, social change, ethics, matters of individuals that…

Anyon (1980) discusses the concept of social class in five New Jersey elementary schools and argues that each of the schools prepares students to fit into the social class that the school is primarily composed of. In each of the five elementary schools Anyon (1980) examined, social class most certainly had pivotal component in the curriculum, but the geographical community also played a key role in the hidden curriculum as well. One of the first items mentioned by Anyon (1980) prior to…

Some people say that there is a difference between urban and suburban sprawl. Mrs. Lowry states that urban and suburban sprawl is the same thing as urban sprawl is people leaving the cities for housing options that allow them to spread out more but still close enough to the city to work. This is exactly was suburban sprawl is. However, suburban areas encourage more commuting as it takes longer to get from place to place, which increases gas emissions, and using farmlands as land for new housing…

Urban sprawl caused the increase of physical and environmental footprints of many cities all over the world, some of them having a significant increase in a very short time. This, however, leads to the decrease and destruction of natural wildlife habitats and farmland. The trend of urban sprawl first started in the US after the end of world war II. The increase in manufacturing output and new federal programs in America had made it possible for many people to buy new houses and cars. The…