Urban sprawl
is a well established phenomena in America. As one group of analysts has
characterized it:
"Sprawl is random unplanned growth characterized by inadequate accessibility
to essential land uses such as housing, jobs, and public services that
include schools, parks, green space, and public transportation. Suburban
sprawl is not new. It is an extension of long-established patterns of suburbanization,
decentralization, and low-density development. Sprawl-driven development
has 'literally sucked population, jobs, investment capital and tax base
from the urban core'" (Anthony, 1998). [Bullard, Johnson, and Torres, 2000].
