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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
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Miami Gardens is a predominantly Black city, with 63% of its population identifying as Black, according to the U.S. Census.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
10 Mar. 2025
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Even Chicago, a city with famously extravagant St. Patrick's Day festivities, doesn't have the history to match.—
Jessica Farthing,
Southern Living,
10 Mar. 2025
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Much of the impact on education, human services and town aid has been mitigated with $2.8 billion in emergency federal COVID aid the state received in 2021, funds that could be spent outside budget cap constraints.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2025
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Since Jimmy Butler moped his way out of town, the talent hasn’t been there.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
15 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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According to the state’s distressed municipalities map, several rural towns in Connecticut with populations of less than 20,000 people are listed as being environmental justice communities.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2025
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The recent wave of criminalizing homelessness stems directly from the U.S. Supreme Court decision Grants Pass v. Johnson, a June ruling that allows municipalities to fine or arrest people experiencing homelessness for sleeping outside, even when no shelter is available.—
Bonnie Kahn Ognisanti,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Mar. 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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As mayor of Davao City, a metropolis of 1.5 million people on the southern island of Mindanao, Duterte built a national reputation over two decades for his no-nonsense approach to crime.—
Kathleen Magramo,
CNN,
11 Mar. 2025
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In previous research Blaser and his colleagues sampled rural and urban homes in South American locations ranging from a small village in the remote Amazon to the bustling metropolis of Manaus, Brazil.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
27 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 20 Mar. 2025.
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