urban sprawl

Examples of urban sprawl in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The idea of Los Angeles as a wildlife preserve disrupts its image of glitzy urban sprawl. Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2024 In Los Angeles, where urban sprawl and diverse venues present unique security challenges, AI will play a central role in coordinating large-scale operations across multiple sites. Brian Gumbel, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 Designed for 200,000 people, the population of its urban sprawl now exceeds 1 million. Ricardo Hernández, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024 The hubris of believing that people can control water with concrete will be increasingly exposed as more of those kinds of projects fail, unable to buffer the knock-on impacts from rapid population growth, urban sprawl and climate change. Erica Gies, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2018 See all Example Sentences for urban sprawl 

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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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