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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
Orenstein emphasized the need to minimize urban sprawl in fire-prone areas, while also addressing the long-term challenges posed by climate change.
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Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 17 Feb. 2025
The blazes that began in the hilltop communities surrounding Los Angeles are part of a growing trend of increasingly destructive wildfires fueled by climate change, urban sprawl and inadequate resources for firefighting.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
The endangered Florida panther faces the dual threats of urban sprawl and increased traffic
In 2024, 36 panther deaths were recorded by state wildlife officials, which was the most since 2016.
—Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025
Like many cities, the fringes of Sydney’s urban sprawl are made up of working-class families, newly arrived immigrants and those pushed out further and further from downtown by rising housing prices.
—Victoria Kim, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
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Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 17 Feb. 2025
The blazes that began in the hilltop communities surrounding Los Angeles are part of a growing trend of increasingly destructive wildfires fueled by climate change, urban sprawl and inadequate resources for firefighting.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
The endangered Florida panther faces the dual threats of urban sprawl and increased traffic
In 2024, 36 panther deaths were recorded by state wildlife officials, which was the most since 2016.
—Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025
Like many cities, the fringes of Sydney’s urban sprawl are made up of working-class families, newly arrived immigrants and those pushed out further and further from downtown by rising housing prices.
—Victoria Kim, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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New York City experienced the lowest number of shootings and murders in recorded history over the first five months of the year, according to city officials.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2025
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The tools are simple to use and can be filtered by time range, city and airline.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2025
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Location Located on the northwestern coast of Guanacaste, Punta Cacique is a secluded cliffside community offering easy access to two neighboring beach towns: Playa Hermosa and Playa del Coco.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
7 June 2025
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The Cubs rolled into town having won four out of five.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
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Brigitte Segal, president of Les Studios de Paris, and Peninsula Pictures producer John Bernard will speak on Studios de Paris and its facilities as the largest and newest inner city studio complex.—
William Earl,
Variety,
12 May 2025
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But the Defender is overpriced and an inefficient inner city and suburbia dweller.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2025
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His office didn’t have detailed value statistics for condos in the county’s 34 municipalities.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2025
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In California, regulators at individual municipalities closely control where and how companies can operate autonomous vehicles.—
Jennifer Elias,
CNBC,
3 June 2025
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Our beautiful neighborhoods will become an asphalt jungle!—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2024
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But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.—
Leslie Felperin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 May 2024
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Unlike the metropolises mentioned above, Hartford has a median home sale price that’s actually lower than the national average—$214,546 compared to $281,900.—
Amelia Mularz,
Architectural Digest,
28 May 2025
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Her characters travel on the public transport and engage firsthand with the unglamorous but still relevant realities of a vast metropolis.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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Manhattan merged with Brooklyn a dozen years before, and here is Greater New York, spreading into new suburbs, boroughs, and garden cities.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
18 Apr. 2025
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Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia.—
Soner Cagaptay,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Feb. 2024
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After 21 years, Catch 35 is closing in downtown Naperville at the end of next month, the seafood restaurant said in social media and website posts.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2025
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Northlake is about a 20-mile drive northwest from downtown Chicago.—
Kate Linderman,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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