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Urban Sprawl

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Urban sprawl (disorderly urban expansion) is the unplanned spread of housing and commercial facilities into suburbs with inadequate urban planning. Besides delays in infrastructure and environmental destruction, it increases car dependence and causes urban problems such as hollowing-out of city centers. #list

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