Sustainable Racine, along with other community groups, recently participated in a meeting on the issue of urban sprawl. While some will tell you they know it when they see it, there apparently does ...

Simply described as the geographical spreading out of urban areas, “urban sprawl” has become the stuff of public policy hysteria. A well-financed movement blames sprawl for everything from a lack of ...

Most Americans oppose the expansion of residential neighborhoods into rural areas, writes Witold Rybczynski, a professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. Architects, for instance, object ...

Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by a ...

Fifteen years ago, the global population was almost evenly divided between urban and rural dwellers. In 2022, according to World Bank figures, almost a billion more people live in cities and towns ...