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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
In San Diego on Thursday, agents focused on an area of deceptively treacherous mountain trails with expansive views of Tijuana, Mexico, its urban sprawl and industrial warehouses in San Diego.
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Eugene Garcia, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
Many celebrities live in the area, mixing with longtime-resident hippies and people who have fled the urban sprawl of downtown Los Angeles.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
Carved into the edge of Pittsburgh’s urban sprawl—just fifteen minutes from downtown—this free outdoor bouldering gym was designed with an ambitious vision: to bring outdoor adventure to all.
—Ryleigh Norgrove, Outside Online, 8 Dec. 2024
That’s the way much of California was built, long before politicians like state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, successfully campaigned to make urban sprawl political anathema.
—Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Eugene Garcia, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
Many celebrities live in the area, mixing with longtime-resident hippies and people who have fled the urban sprawl of downtown Los Angeles.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
Carved into the edge of Pittsburgh’s urban sprawl—just fifteen minutes from downtown—this free outdoor bouldering gym was designed with an ambitious vision: to bring outdoor adventure to all.
—Ryleigh Norgrove, Outside Online, 8 Dec. 2024
That’s the way much of California was built, long before politicians like state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, successfully campaigned to make urban sprawl political anathema.
—Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
Noun
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To a resident of the more anonymous and corporate post-pandemic New York, the East Village of the eighties could seem as small and intertwined as a walled city.—
Zach Helfand,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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One such destination is Copenhagen, a Scandinavian city renowned for its art and architecture.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
10 Mar. 2025
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Soon, Rick can’t take it anymore and heads into town to find marijuana (cannabis is currently legal in Thailand), with Chelsea in tow.—
Dan Heching,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2025
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The footage was captured in Vang Vieng, a town in the northwest region of Laos.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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The lack of Black male teachers is a big missing piece to the puzzle of improving the inner city educational system.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2025
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Helping inner cities Since the 1930s, mortgage lenders had denied predominantly Black city neighborhoods access to financing.—
Stephen Mihm,
The Mercury News,
15 Feb. 2025
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Like state government, municipalities also have exhausted most of their emergency federal pandemic aid.—
Jessika Harkay,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2025
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They were later restricted to the Bucharest municipality and nearby Ilfov County, and then to Romania.—
STEPHEN McGRATH,
TIME,
27 Feb. 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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Many of the selections underscore the social stresses and inequalities of the growing metropolis, the scars left by the harsh military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983, and the human costs of Argentina’s recurrent economic crises.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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That is what they are being punished for—an effort to free themselves from the control of a former metropolis.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
20 Feb. 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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Lee Kuan Yew, the city’s first prime minister, launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Sep. 2022
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Pedestrian and cyclist injuries and deaths were seen more in the downtown and Broadway corridors, Vissers said.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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The study also looked at recommendations to improve safety in the Stockyards, downtown, and in the Near Southside and Magnolia districts.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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