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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
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.
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Victoria Kim, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Local Vibe: Salt Lake has grown into a sophisticated urban sprawl with a vibrant downtown, thriving art scene, and bustling nightlife with street vendors and musicians.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
These solutions would likewise benefit our nation’s wildlife, which are being squeezed tighter every year by urban sprawl.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
In Los Angeles, urban sprawl has expanded development into fire-prone areas, known as the wildland-urban interface.
—Vanessa Crossgrove Fry, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
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Victoria Kim, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Local Vibe: Salt Lake has grown into a sophisticated urban sprawl with a vibrant downtown, thriving art scene, and bustling nightlife with street vendors and musicians.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
These solutions would likewise benefit our nation’s wildlife, which are being squeezed tighter every year by urban sprawl.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
In Los Angeles, urban sprawl has expanded development into fire-prone areas, known as the wildland-urban interface.
—Vanessa Crossgrove Fry, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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In a live-and-let-live city that likes to signal its virtues, can empathy and stricter law enforcement go hand-in-hand?—
Jason Motlagh,
Rolling Stone,
27 Apr. 2025
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What to know about ticket sales and prices in different cities Tickets initially went on sale for Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour in February.—
Caché McClay,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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That number is quickly dwindling due to depopulation—some towns have not experienced a birth in more than a decade.—
Asia London Palomba,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Apr. 2025
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With brick sidewalks and boutiques housed in historic buildings, this town provides a true glimpse into the past.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
20 Apr. 2025
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Colleges pay almost no income taxes and generally avoid paying property taxes even though their vast tracts of valuable land are often in or near struggling inner cities.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
12 Mar. 2025
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Only the wealthiest resided in the inner city, made up the raja’s court, and decided the fate of the kingdom’s people—yet never ventured outside the sixty-foot-tall iron gate to mingle or empathize.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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In the municipality of Villa Guerrero in Mexico flower growers and their families grapple with the impact of the toxic chemicals used to cultivate the flowers.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2025
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Last week, a federal judge in California barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to San Francisco and more than a dozen other municipalities that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.—
Jenny Jarvie,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 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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In those nine minutes of footage, the camera meanders through an optimistic, dynamic metropolis where new technologies breed new visions and big plans.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
18 Apr. 2025
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The city, a boomtown in the last decade thanks to the explosion of wealth generated by its homegrown tech industry, has struggled more than almost any other US metropolis to rebound after the Covid-19 pandemic.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 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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Bus shuttle boarding locations downtown are planned at Gate B22 in the Union Station underground bus concourse, the 38th and Blake Station, the 40th and Colorado Station, and the Central Park Station.—
Bruce Finley,
Denver Post,
22 Apr. 2025
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Weaving throughout the streets of downtown Boston, Lokedi was neck-and-neck with two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri up until the last mile before pulling away to ultimately win the race by 19 seconds.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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