A new report from the Next 10 Think Tank at UC Berkeley says urban sprawl is fueling the increase in devastating wildfires. ABC 10News Reporter Jared Aarons explains why the report says the ...

Although car-dependent suburbs continue to spread across the nation, they’re not as popular as you might assume. Do Americans Really Want Urban Sprawl? originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy ...

Urban sprawl is the largest destroyer of farmland, yet the alleged farmland savers never acknowledge it.

Urban Sprawl is a waste of public resources and we, the taxpayers, have to foot the bill for infrastructure improvements from the taxes we pay at the local, state and federal level.

How suburban sprawl and climate change fuel wildfires The scene in the Los Angeles area over the last week has become heartbreakingly familiar — people on the run and watching helplessly as ...

Rapid population booms in the West led to uncontrolled urban sprawl in cities like San Francisco and Portland. What are city planners doing to encourage smart growth?

A new paper in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning by two Concordia researchers argues that greenbelts almost always work in curbing sprawl, particularly in larger cities. It looks at 60 ...

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 ...

Sprawl results in adverse impacts to collective health, including traffic fatalities, reduced physical activity and exposure to air pollution.

MALTBY — Two urban growth proposals failed last month as Snohomish County Council attempted to balance the need for increased housing with protecting open space.

A massive urban landscape that contained interconnected campsites, villages, towns and monumental centers thrived in the Amazon rainforest more than 600 years ago. In what is now Bolivia, members ...

With 27,000 acres of undeveloped land within our urban boundaries, plenty of land remains for in-fill construction. Sprawl also means tapping into our limited water resources from natural aquifers ...